Claims
- 1. In an automotive vehicle having an engine and wheels rotatably mounted to a chassis containing the engine and a drive assembly for transmitting rotative torque from the engine to the wheels, and a surface bearing disposed between the automotive drive assembly and the engine for cushioning and acoustically decoupling same, the improvement comprising said surface bearing including a plate made of resilient elastomer material interspersed with a plurality of hollow channels and cavities intersected by said channels, all of said hollow channels and cavities in said plate lying in a single plane extending at least essentially parallel to a principal load bearing surface of the plate or complementary in shape to the principal surface, each said cavity intersected by only one of said hollow channels, wherein none of the hollow channels intersect each other and said hollow channels are open at least at one end thereof and have a cross-section which is at least about 1/4 of the size of the largest cross-sectional area of the nearest cavity intersected by said associated hollow channel.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/462,399 filed Jan. 8, 1990 abandoned.
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Continuations (1)
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