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Maurice Houdaille, Paris, assignor to La Société Houdaille et Sabot · Public domain (expired patent)
The Hydraulic Shock Absorber: Liquid Forced Through a Small Passage
Springs store the energy of a bump and give it back; without something to take it away, the car keeps bouncing. Early 'shock absorbers' were friction discs clamped together, which resisted the same whether the car moved slowly or fast. Maurice Houdaille in Paris made it hydraulic: a vane on a spindle, turned by a lever from the axle, sweeps liquid from one compartment of a casing to another through passages whose size can be adjusted. The faster the axle moves, the harder the liquid resists.
His US patent of 1914 is also about a practical problem every hydraulic damper has: liquid leaks past the seals, so the patent adds valves that let liquid from a reserve refill the working chamber and keep it full.
This rung simulates a car corner with four levels of damping and measures a syringe damper's force against speed.
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About 3 hours
Instruções
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Read Houdaille's rotary damper
Read Houdaille's rotary damper
US 1,087,017, 'Shock Absorber', Maurice Houdaille of Paris, filed 17 January 1912, granted 10 February 1914. A cylindrical casing is *"divided into two compartments by a fixed partition"*; a hollow spindle carries *"two blades"*, turned by a lever and connecting rod from the spring, which sweep through the compartments. The liquid — *"glycerin or other suitable liquid"* — must pass *"from one chamber into the other"* through conduits in the spindle whose *"cross-section … can be adjusted"*.
Valves 12 and 13 are *"automatically opened in order to allow liquid to pass into the compartment and closed to prevent any liquid from returning"* to the reserve chamber 8 — the recuperation of leakage the patent is built around.
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A quarter-car with four dampers
A quarter-car with four dampers
A carregar o notebook Jupyter…
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Measure a syringe damper
Measure a syringe damper
Fill a large syringe with mineral oil and fit a needle or a short thin tube to its nozzle as the orifice. Clamp the syringe upright and press the plunger down with the spring scale at a steady reading, timing how long the plunger takes to travel 20 mm.
Repeat at four or five different pushes. Plot force against plunger speed. For a long thin passage the force rises in proportion to speed; for a short sharp orifice it rises faster, nearer the square. Real dampers use both — and valves that open at high speed so a sharp pothole does not become a hammer blow.
Swap the oil for glycerine: same speeds, far higher forces. Houdaille's liquid was glycerine.
Materiais para este passo:
Conjunto de seringas1 conjunto
Óleo mineral de uso alimentar100 ml
Glicerol100 mlFerramentas necessárias:
Dinamómetro (balança de mola)
Cronómetro
Régua
Torno de bancada4
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History and context
History and context
**US 1,087,017, 'Shock Absorber', Maurice Houdaille, Paris, assignor to La Société Houdaille et Sabot; filed 17 January 1912, granted 10 February 1914.** Houdaille's rotary-vane lever-arm dampers were fitted to cars for decades; the telescopic damper, a piston in a tube of oil, replaced them from the 1930s.
**Honest limits.** The linear model in the notebook is a simplification: real dampers are valved to resist differently in bump and rebound, and their force is not proportional to speed. Oil thins as it heats, so a hard-worked damper fades. And a damper cannot fix a spring that is wrong for the load.
Materiais
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Ferramentas necessárias
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