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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2000
Noel L. Allen, Burnsvillle, MN (US);
Allen L. Arndt, Burnsvillle, MN (US);
Scott M. Ralston, Farmington, MN (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A spring element is made of a spring material and is formed into a generally elliptical shape. Two mounting pins extend in a normal direction through parallel relatively short segments of said elliptically-shaped spring element. The mounting pins are substantially aligned with the shorter of the two axis of the elliptically-shaped spring element so as to extend both inwardly and outwardly of said elliptically-shaped spring element. An elastomeric coating is applied around substantially all of the spring elements and a pair of blocks, each of which surrounds one of the mounting pins receives one of the mounting pins. A number of spring elements are joined together by two parallel, spaced-apart coupling links which contain cavities therein to receive one of the blocks of each of the spring elements.