Patent ID: 9004469
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: B64G,F16F

Abstract:
1. A device capable of providing dynamic isolation and damping of dynamic vibrations originated in a launch vehicle of a space shuttle reaching at least one of a payload or satellite, the device interfering a load path from the launch vehicle to the space shuttle, the device comprising: a plurality of elementary unit elements, each of the elements comprising a spring component, providing stiffness properties of each of the elementary unit elements, and a damping component, providing damping properties of each of the elementary unit elements, the spring component being formed by two symmetric stacks, characterized in that the damping component is not arranged in the load path from the launch vehicle to the space shuttle, ends of the damping component being joined to ends of the stacks, and in that each line joining each end of the stacks with the top or bottom parts of the stacks forms an angle (α) with the damping component, so that the damping properties and the stiffness properties of the device are designed individually by the variation of the angle (α).