(19)
(11) EP 0 337 286 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
31.10.1990 Bulletin 1990/44

(43) Date of publication A2:
18.10.1989 Bulletin 1989/42

(21) Application number: 89106026.1

(22) Date of filing: 06.04.1989
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4: B04B 9/12
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 11.04.1988 US 179796

(60) Divisional application:
92112616.5 / 0510733

(71) Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Wilmington Delaware 19898 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Carson, David Michael
    Newtown Connecticut 06470 (US)
  • Romanauskas, William Andrew
    Southbury Connecticut 06488 (US)

(74) Representative: Selting, Günther, Dipl.-Ing. et al
Patentanwälte von Kreisler, Selting, Werner Postfach 10 22 41
50462 Köln
50462 Köln (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Motor mount for a centrifuge


    (57) A mounting apparatus in which the vertical, lateral and torsional stiffness of the mounting apparatus are greater than the pivot stiffness. The greater stiffnesses are produced either by loading columns in tension or compression or by bending a rectangular column along its narrow, higher moment of inertia face.







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