MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414085527 A) filed by Axtone Spolka Akcyjna, Kanczuga, Poland, on Nov. 7, 2024, for 'energy absorbing and dissipating device for vehicle coupling.'
Inventor(s) include Jan Kukulski; and Leszek Wasilewski.
The application for the patent was published on May 30, under issue no. 22/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to an energy absorbing and dissipating device for vehicle coupling having a fork (3), wherein the fork (3) has a pin (7) mounted therein for mounting the lug assembly (1) connecting the vehicle coupling head, and on the rear side of the fork (3) a pin is mounted with a set of shock-absorbing inserts (11), the set of inserts (11) on the side of the fork (3) being secured by a stop plate (5), constituting a limiter for movement in the coupling pulling direction, and on the opposite side by a back plate (6) and a locking element (13), and the entire structure is closed by a locking element (10) mounted inside the housing (4), constituting a limiter for movement in the coupling pushing direction, the device additionally having a housing (4) in which the other components can move slidingly. The characteristic feature of the device is that the housing (4) is shaped like a sleeve, there is a mounting ring (4) on the outside of the housing (2); the mounting ring (2) has a flange part (2a) with screw holes (2a) for mounting to the vehicle wall and with cutting knives (14) for cutting the housing surface (4), middle part (2b) for guiding the housing (4), breakaway part (2c); the mounting ring (2) is mounted to the housing (2) using the breakaway part (2c)."
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