Patent ID: 6095306
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
In a vehicle control system including a slave cylinder having an output member adapted for control of a mechanism of the vehicle, a master cylinder, including a piston, operative to deliver pressurized fluid to the slave cylinder, and a pushrod assembly connected at a forward end thereof to the master cylinder piston, adapted to be connected at a rearward end thereof to a control pedal arm of the vehicle, and moveable in an apply and a release direction to effect control of the vehicle mechanism through the slave cylinder output member, the improvement wherein the pushrod assembly includes;a pushrod connected at a forward end thereof to the master cylinder piston and adapted for connection at a rearward end thereof to the control pedal arm; andan isolator member of resilient material carried by the pushrod and interposed between the rearward pushrod end and the control pedal in a position to be resiliently distorted in response to movement of the control pedal in a release direction relative to the pushrod;said pushrod including an eye portion proximate said rearward end thereof defining an eye opening adapted to receive a pivot pin carried by the control pedal arm; andsaid isolator member being positioned in the eye opening.