SPRING DEVICE WITH NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTIC Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering.

SUBSTANCE: device has cylindrical spring interposed between the top and bottom bearing sides and cylindrical flexible member mounted coaxially with respect to the spring on the bottom bearing side. The bottom bearing side is provided with an axially magnetized cylindrical permanent magnet, which has axial opening and mounted for displacements along the thread and the axis of the spring. The cylindrical flexible member is made of a flexible porous material impregnated with a ferromagnetic liquid, and mounted concentrically with a spaced relation in the axial opening of the permanent magnet directly under the cylindrical spring.

EFFECT: expanded functional capabilities.

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