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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Reinhard Schmidt, Lennestadt, DE;
Assignee:
R. Schmidt GmbH, Lennestadt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
745005 ; 745025 ; 188 651 ;
Abstract
In order to make an apparatus for attenuating the pivotal or sliding movement of motor-vehicle parts which is formed of a first part fixed on the nonsliding or nonpivoting part and a second part mounted on the pivotal or slidable part which is extremely inexpensive and which takes up minimal space it is suggested that one of the two elements be formed by a tubular and stiff or flexible tube which is filled with a viscous mass and that the other part being formed by a core which slides in the tubular body so that relative pivoting or sliding of the parts coaxially slides the core relative to the tubular body.