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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
William H Clarke, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
188284 ; 188282 ;
Abstract
A displacement sensitive valve mechanism incorporated in a shock absorber for a motor vehicle suspension which provides substantially unrestricted hydraulic flow between a first rebound chamber and a second rebound chamber through a first range of displacement of a piston rod and progressively restricts the hydraulic flow between the first rebound chamber and the second rebound chamber during a second range of displacement of the piston, thereby progressively increasing the dampening force resisting displacement of the piston in the second range of displacement.