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Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2021
Applicant:

Fox Factory, Inc., Duluth, GA (US);

Inventor:

Connor Randall, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:

Fox Factory, Inc., Duluth, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60G 17/04 (2006.01); B60G 13/08 (2006.01); B60G 17/08 (2006.01); F16F 9/46 (2006.01); B60G 15/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60G 17/08 (2013.01); B60G 13/08 (2013.01); F16F 9/466 (2013.01); B60G 15/062 (2013.01); B60G 2202/24 (2013.01); B60G 2400/252 (2013.01); B60G 2400/5182 (2013.01); B60G 2400/7162 (2013.01);
Abstract

An internal stroke sensor for an IFP shock assembly is disclosed herein. The shock assembly includes a damper chamber and a damping piston coupled to a piston shaft. The damping piston disposed in the damper chamber and axially movable relative to the damper chamber, the damping piston separating a compression portion from a rebound portion within the damper chamber. The shock assembly also includes an internal floating piston (IFP) and an IFP location sensor. The IFP location sensor to determine a position information for the IFP. A processor is configured to receive the position information for the IFP from the IFP location sensor and utilize the position information for the IFP to determine a shock stroke position of the shock assembly.


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