Appeal No. 2001-2327 Page 4
Application No. 08/835,460
The admitted prior art is described on pages 1-2 of this application which we
hereby incorporate. In brief, the admitted prior art shown in Figure 1 discloses a strut
mount in a vehicular suspension system which receives a load from a shock absorber.
The strut mount including a washer 2 fixable to a top end of a piston rod 1 of the shock
absorber; an upper sheet 4 fixable to the piston rod at a predetermined distance from the
washer; an upper rubber ring 100 and a separate lower rubber ring 101 disposed between
the washer and the upper sheet; a plate 5 disposed between the upper rubber ring 100
and the lower rubber ring 101 and extending outwardly in the radial direction; and a
separate coil spring receiving rubber ring 102 provided on a lower side of the plate for
receiving a coil spring 6 disposed about the shock absorber.
Kanda's invention relates in general to a generally cylindrical elastic mount
interposed between two structures for elastically connecting these two structures, and
more particularly to such elastic mount which exhibits sufficiently high degrees of spring
stiffness in both axial and radial directions thereof and which can be suitably used as body
mounts, cab mounts and sub-frame mounts for a motor vehicle, for example. Figures 1-3
of Kanda show a cylindrical elastic mount in the form of a body mount 30 for a motor
vehicle. The body mount 30 has a first support member 34 to be attached to a frame 32, a
second support member 38 to be attached to a body 36 of the vehicle, and four generally
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