| 20110222800 | Methods and Compositions for Isolating a Payload from Vibration - Improved isolation bearings, platforms, and tracks are disclosed for protecting a payload, for example delicate computer equipment such as a hard disk drive, from damage due to vibrations, such as seismic vibrations, as well as weaker vibrations due to HDD, motorized equipment, air conditioning, heating systems, and the like. The isolation platforms and bearings combine a plurality of shapes on their load bearing surfaces to increase stability of the payload even when subjected to vibrations of high velocity or intensity, and preferably have an elastomeric coating on all but a central portion of the load-bearing surfaces of the bearing plates. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110024600 | Isolation platform - The present invention provides a platform for supporting various equipment and/or structures which assists in isolating such structure from vibrations external to the platform. Generally, the platform comprises upper and lower plates, having depressions comprising a combination of linear and radial surfaces, upon which the upper plate supports the above-mentioned structure, and the lower plate contacts a surface/area upon which the platform is to rest. Between the upper and lower plates, a plurality of rigid, spherical bearings are placed within the depressions. | 02-03-2011 |
