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1. A fluid damper comprising:
a first chamber comprising a first end and a second end and defined by a wall coupling the first end with the second end, wherein the wall comprises an inner diameter, and wherein the first chamber is divided into a compression portion having a first fluid therein and a gas-filled compressible portion, the compression portion including a piston and a rod disposed therein and movable in a compression and rebound stroke within the first chamber; a second chamber disposed within a portion less than a whole of the first chamber and between the first end and the second end, the second chamber comprising a portion of the wall having the inner diameter of the first chamber, the second chamber having a variable rheology fluid therein and dividing the compression portion and gas-filled compressible portion , wherein the second chamber is at least partially displaceable by and isolated from the first fluid and wherein movement of the second chamber causes a volume change in the gas-filled compressible portion; and a magnet disposed adjacent to the second chamber, wherein an outer surface of the magnet is positioned proximate an inner surface of the wall, the inner surface comprising an orifice, wherein the variable rheology fluid has accessibility to a substantial entirety of the orifice for movement therein, and wherein an increase of a current flowing in a wire of the magnet, and hence an increase in a magnetic field, enables flux lines created by the magnetic field to reach toward a center of the orifice into the variable rheology fluid. |
