UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENT VEHICLE MOUNT ASSEMBLY

• US 20090236478A1
• Filed: 03/19/2008
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Keeley, Matthew P., Kramer, Thomas M., Rigert, Robert C., McGinn, Richard T.
• Application Number:
  US12/051,051
• Publication Number:
  US 20090236478A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/122.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/30 Supports specially adapted for an instrument; Supports specially adapted for a set of instruments

Abstract

The instrument mount assembly of the present invention comprises a pair of spaced apart L shaped brackets having a vertical leg and a horizontal flange extending outwardly from a bottom end thereof in a first direction and a hook at a top end thereof sized and configured to securely engage over a body rail of a truck, extending outwardly from the vertical leg in a direction opposite the flange, each flange being adapted to engage an end edge of an isolation plate sized and configured to support a corresponding instrument thereon, the brackets being engaged to one another by at least one cross rail, with the entire assembly being sized and configured to compactly hold the instrument to the body rail of the truck without interfering with any truck structures proximate thereto.

Claims

1. An universal instrument truck mount assembly for use in supporting an engine exhaust analyzer off rails of a truck, in a manner to fit under a cab of the truck, at a desired position, comprising two end hangers which are L shaped, having a J shaped hook at a free top end thereof;

each of the hangers supporting one opposite end of a vibration isolation platform sized and configured to receive a corresponding engine exhaust analyzer thereon, and at least one cross member extending between and joining the two end brackets together.

3. The mount assembly of claim 1 having angle iron welded between the upright and the horizontal leg of the bracket for added support.

4. The mount assembly of claim 1 having an adjustable strap engaged to each bracket and adapted to engage each bracket to a rail of the chassis or frame from which the mount assembly depends.

5. The mount assembly of claim 1 being sized and configured to depend from a chassis rail between frame rails and depending there from in a manner so as not to interfere with overlying truck body structures.

6. The mount assembly of claim 1 being engaged to a rail at a position within proximity to an exhaust outlet of an engine exhaust system of a truck.

7. The mount assembly of claim 1 wherein the isolation plate is sized to support a corresponding horizontally sized instrument.

8. The mount assembly of claim 1 wherein the uprights of the brackets of the mount assembly are sized to accommodate a vertical extent of a corresponding instrument so as to maintain the vertical extent thereof below an upper edge of the rail from which the mount assembly depends.

2. An universal instrument truck mount assembly comprising a pair of spaced apart L shaped brackets having a hook at a top end thereof sized and configured to securely engage over a body rail of a truck, each bracket having a horizontal flange extending outwardly from a bottom end thereof, in a direction opposite the hook, each flange being adapted to engage an end edge of an isolation plate sized and configured to support a corresponding instrument thereon, the brackets being engaged to one another by at least one cross rail, with the assembly being sized and configured to compactly hold the instrument to the body rail of the truck at a desired position without interfering with any truck structures proximate thereto.

9. The mount assembly of claim 2 having angle iron welded between the upright and the horizontal leg of the bracket for added support.

10. The mount assembly of claim 2 having an adjustable strap engaged to each bracket and adapted to engage each bracket to a rail of the chassis or frame from which the mount assembly depends.

11. The mount assembly of claim 2 being sized and configured to depend from a chassis rail between frame rails and depending there from in a manner so as not to interfere with overlying truck body structures.

12. The mount assembly of claim 2 being engaged to a rail at a position within proximity to an exhaust outlet of an engine exhaust system of a truck.

13. The mount assembly of claim 2 wherein the isolation plate is sized to support a corresponding horizontally sized instrument.

14. The mount assembly of claim 2 wherein the uprights of the brackets of the mount assembly are sized to accommodate a vertical extent of a corresponding instrument so as to maintain the vertical extent thereof below an upper edge of the rail from which the mount assembly depends.

15. An universal instrument truck mount assembly for use in supporting an engine exhaust analyzer off rails of a truck, in a manner to fit under a cab of the truck, near an exhaust outlet of an engine of the truck comprising two end hangers which are L shaped, having a J shaped hook at a free top end thereof;

each of the hangers supporting one opposite end of a vibration isolation platform sized and configured to receive a corresponding engine exhaust analyzer thereon, and at least one cross member extending between and joining the two end brackets together.