Protecting The Engines That Move The World
The Houde Engineering Division of Houdaille-Hershey Corproation set out to apply their 'viscous rotary damper' to internal combustion engines. Primarily in light-duty automobiles and heavy-duty commercial trucks. The potential proved to be much, much greater.
Through the years the viscous torsional vibration damper has been integrated into many industries. Today, Vibratech TVD leads the damper industry in application experience.
Commercial Trucks
Over-the-road trucking dominated Houdialle viscous damper production for the first 30 years. Accounting for a 90% of dampers shipped by the early 1970s. As the viscous damper became standard equipment and patent protection expired, more manufacturers entered market.
Vibratech TVD continues to design, develop and manufacturers OEM commercial truck dampers. In several cases, Vibratech TVD has engineered a higher quality solution when other brand OE viscous dampers do not meet durability requirements in extreme environments.
Oil and Gas Industry
The largest viscous damper Vibratech TVD manufactures and services are found in the natural gas industry. Some still in use are over 50 years old! These dampers are designed with a removable outer housing cover and receive routine remanufacturing through Vibratech TVD.
Rail
Vibratech TVD supplies OE viscous dampers to a leading diesel electric locomotive manufacture. These specially designed viscous dampers are refurbished by Vibratech TVD at regular service intervals. The program receives high environmental marks from the OE for reducing scrap.
Off-Highway & Agriculture
Downtime is not an option during harvest season. Likewise for construction, mining, and forestry. Vibratech TVD develops and supplies OE viscous crankshaft, camshaft, and pto drive dampers for multiple off-highway equipment manufactures.
Marine / Work Boat
The high temperature, low air flow environment of an engine hull presents an unique challenge to conventional vibration damper long term durability. Vibratech TVD designs and manufactures the solution and is an OE supplier to multiple marine brands.
Transit
City transit systems play an important role in moving people to and from their activities. Today's hybrid and full-electric buses are quieter and more environmentally friendly than ever. For passenger comfort OEMs focus on reducing noise, vibration and harshness (NVH). One NVH source is the torsional vibration emitted from the driveline. Vibratech TVD has worked closely with bus manufacturers and their powertrain suppliers to develop and manufacture tuned viscous torsional driveline dampers.
Motorsports / High Performance
To meet the demands of professional motorsport's toughest durability performance challenges, OEM factory race teams and production race engine builders in automotive and marine turn to Vibratech TVD. In addition, Vibratech TVD also designs and manufactures OE viscous crankshaft and camshaft dampers for premium supercar brands.
Vibratech TVD performance catalog damper division, Fluidampr has been the leading viscous harmonic damper in the performance racing industry and automotive aftermarket since 1985.
image courtesy of GM Performance / Corvette Racing
Defense
Vibratech TVD continues the tradition of supplying the United States military. New crankshaft harmonic dampers to exceed the needs of tactical vehicles are continuously being researched, developed and refined. In addition, Houdaille and Vibratech spec replacement torsional dampers are also available.
image courtesy of Oshkosh Corporation
