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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1997
Filed:
May. 16, 1995
Joseph Richard Karner, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Stephen Benjamin Sherrick, Waterford, MI (US);
Alexander Christopher Winter, Plymouth, MI (US);
Gregory Lee Zubal, Davisburg, MI (US);
Katherine Lee Tachick, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Jack William Berletch, Apache Junction, AZ (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An exhaust pipe hanger assembly is provided in a vehicle having a rigid structural member. The exhaust pipe hanger assembly includes a continuously linearly extending rigid rod bracket. The rod bracket has a first portion extending through and securely captured within the rigid structural member and a second portion linearly extending from the first portion and extending outwardly from the structural member. The exhaust pipe is suspended from the second portion of the rigid rod bracket. The rigid rod bracket has sufficiently high stiffness and resonant vibrational frequencies such that transmission of exhaust pipe vibration into the vehicle is reduced.