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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2002
Anthony D. Sutton, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Brian M. Millard, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Randall L. Schreiber, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC, Warrenville, IL (US);
Abstract
A cab body mounting ( ) in a vehicle has a frame-side bracket ( ) attached to a chassis frame side rail ( ) and a body-side bracket ( ) attached to a cab body rail ( ). An elastomeric bushing ( ) and a fastener ( ) associate brackets so as to allow limited motion between them accompanied by bushing deformation. Bracket ( ) has an upright wall ( ) that is spaced a distance from an end ( E) of rail ( ). A sufficiently large relative acceleration of the body on the frame, such as during a frontal impact, will cause an edge portion of bracket ( ) to abut wall ( ), which arrests further movement of the bracket in the fore-aft direction, and thereby shares the loading that is being imposed on the mounting due to the acceleration force. This occurs before the stress in the shank of fastener ( ) reaches the characteristic maximum allowable shearing stress for the fastener material.