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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
May. 12, 2006
Timothy A. Rogge, Whitmore Lake, MI (US);
Neil Stewart Cummings, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Mickey L. Love, Londonderry, NH (US);
Robert James Ramm, Amherst, NH (US);
Timothy A. Rogge, Whitmore Lake, MI (US);
Neil Stewart Cummings, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Mickey L. Love, Londonderry, NH (US);
Robert James Ramm, Amherst, NH (US);
Vibracoustic North America, L.P., Plymouth, MI (US);
Abstract
A body mount for use in motor vehicles in which the mount is sandwiched between the subframe and body. The mount has an insert member with an oblong shape in the lateral displacement direction of the vehicle. The insert member is surrounded by a microcellular urethane body. The oblong shape increases the compression of the microcellular urethane body that can be used to respond to lateral forces. The lateral response rate can be stiffer than the fore and aft response rate. The isolation mount also can facilitate fine tuning thereof by selectively indenting a cup member surrounding the microcellular urethane body to adjust the vibration characteristics of the body mount.