A tail skid shock absorber including an outer shock absorber canister, a crushable indicator cartridge disposed within the outer shock absorber canister, and an indicator rod coupled to the crushable indicator cartridge so as to move with a portion of the crushable indicator cartridge as a unit.

A dynamic damper includes a tubular member, a mass body, a protruding section, an elastic coupling section, a fastening member, and a projecting section. The protruding section is positioned toward the second end of the tubular member with respect to the projecting section. The projecting section and the protruding section overlap in the axial direction of the tubular member at any position reached by relatively rotating the mass body around the axial center of the tubular member with respect to the tubular member.

A compressible stop for use in a crane has a housing, a rod slidably mounted within the housing, a floating piston, and a valve assembly. The floating piston divides the housing into a gas portion biasing the floating piston towards an end of the housing and a liquid portion containing a hydraulic fluid. The valve assembly divides the liquid portion into a support portion and a reserve portion. The valve assembly includes a check valve allowing a liquid to flow from the reserve portion into the support portion, a pressure sensitive valve inhibiting the liquid from flowing from the support portion into the reserve portion unless the pressure is above a threshold pressure, and a frangible divider configured to rupture when the liquid pressure exceeds a rupture pressure.

A gas cylinder actuator with safety device, which comprises: a tubular containment jacket, two opposing heads for closing the tubular jacket, with corresponding sealing elements between the heads and the jacket, a first head provided with a through hole for the passage of a stem-piston, and a second head provided with a gas filling duct, a stem-piston, between the tubular jacket, the heads and the stem-piston there being a chamber for pressurized gas; the second head has a seat for the accommodation of a flow control element of the gas filling duct and corresponding sealing means, the flow control element comprising a tab for controlling a retracting stroke of the stem-piston, the control tab protruding from a body that has a lightened portion for triggering a controlled fracture or deformation in the event the control tab is crushed by the stem-piston.

An improved shock isolating mounting comprising at least three substantially U-shaped leaf spring members, each leaf spring member comprising at least two leafs arranged to define a space therebetween. In one arrangement, the respective at least three substantially U-shaped leaf spring members are arranged in an array having a substantially equal angular spacing between adjacent spring members.

An electrically adjustable hydraulic shock absorber includes a piston positioned within a tube that divides a fluid chamber into a first working chamber and a second working chamber. A piston rod is attached to the piston and projects. An electronically-controlled valve is positioned within a rod guide. A circuit board is in communication with the electronically-controlled valve. A carrier includes an inner wall and an outer wall interconnected by a bottom wall thereby defining a pocket. A circuit board is positioned within the pocket.

The device includes solid force transmission elements including two reinforcements, a damping body, a damping space including a damping chamber, the device being normally in a filling state where the damping space is filled with a damping liquid and may accidentally be in a state of loss of filling, which has an integrated element, specific and proprietary, palliative for the loss of filling, inactive in the state of filling and made active in the state of loss of filling where they bring the hydroelastic device to a state of stiffness of a high level, such element including a locking system including a locking part, integrally rigid, and a deformable load part controlled by the state of the device with respect to filling.

A sealing structure with a torsional damper and an oil seal includes a damper pulley and an oil seal. The damper pulley includes, in a disk part of a hub on a front cover side, an annular projection that protrudes between the window and the boss part. The oil seal includes a side lip and a flange. The side lip extends to the inside of an annular groove of the damper pulley. The flange is opposed to the projection of the damper pulley to cover the projection so that a gap is formed between the flange and the projection.

A device for indicating a replacement time of a composite leaf spring constantly monitors durability of the composite leaf spring, which is formed by mixing unidirectional glass fiber and epoxy resin, and informs a driver of an appropriate replacement time of the composite leaf spring based on the monitoring result.

A replacement indicator for a shock absorber includes a pressure sensor which monitors pressure of operating fluid inside the shock absorber. The replacement indicator includes an indicative mechanism operatively coupled with the pressure sensor. The indicative mechanism includes an indicator component coupled to the shock absorber. The indicator component gets displaced relative to an outer surface of the shock absorber when the pressure of the operating fluid drops below a threshold pressure.