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Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Bryan Wesley Anderson, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 9/34 (2006.01); F16F 9/348 (2006.01); F16K 47/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 9/341 (2013.01); F16F 9/3484 (2013.01); F16F 9/3485 (2013.01); F16K 47/023 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hydraulic valve includes a closure member, wherein the closure member is actuable toward an opening sealed thereby in the valve, but is unconstrained to move with respect to the opening when the valve is in a dosed position. In an aspect, the closure may be a thin disk, in the shape of a flat washer, which is located between the valve and piston of a hydraulic damper, and when the valve is positioned away from an opening through the piston by virtue of differential pressure across the valve in a dampening r rebound stroke, the disk is free to rotate, move from side to side, and move away from and toward the piston. By employing such a disk, sympathetic vibrations in the damper created during compression events are eliminated.


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