Single Convoluted Air Spring/Air Suspension Spring FS120-9 / Air
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Air springs are engineered to increase ride quality when carrying
heavy loads and help fatigued springs ride smoothly. Our air spring
greatly improve the ride of larger trucks.
air spring, load-carrying component of an air suspension system
used on machines, automobiles, and buses. A system used on buses
consists of an air compressor, an air-supply tank, leveling valves,
check valves,bellow, and connecting piping. Basically, an
air-spring bellows is a column of air confined within a rubber and
fabric container that looks like an automobile tire or two or three
tires stacked on top of one another. The check valves admit
additional air to the bellows from the air-supply tank to maintain
vehicle height when the load is increased, and the leveling valves
vent excess air from the bellows when the vehicle rises because of
unloading. The vehicle thus remains at a fixed height regardless of
load. Although an air spring is flexible under normal loads, it
becomes progressively stiffer when compressed under an increased
load. Air suspension was introduced on some luxury cars in the late
1950s, but it was dropped after several model years. Recently, new
leveling systems have been developed for passenger cars, including
air-adjustable rear shock absorbers; some air-spring systems
operate without an air compressor.
Spring, elastic machine component able to deflect under load in a
prescribed manner and to recover its initial shape when unloaded.
The combination of force and displacement in a deflected spring is
energy, which may be stored when moving loads are being arrested or
when the spring is wound up for use as a power source. Although
most springs are mechanical, hydraulic and air springs are also
obtainable.
