Vibration-damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10132380-B2
Application number	US-201515305116-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2015
Priority date	Apr 30, 2014
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

A vibration-damping device (10) includes a first attachment member (11), a second attachment member (12), an elastic body, and a partitioning member (16). A limiting passage (30) that allows a main liquid chamber (14) and an auxiliary liquid chamber (15) to communicate with each other is formed in the partitioning member (16). An inner peripheral surface of the limiting passage (30) is provided with a flow changing protrusion (31) that protrudes toward an inner side in a radial direction of the limiting passage (30) and that changes the flow of a liquid (L) that flows into the limiting passage (30) from the main liquid chamber (14) and flows through the limiting passage (30) in an axial direction of the limiting passage (30). In a vertical cross-sectional view passing through an axis of the limiting passage (30) and through the flow changing protrusion (31), the limiting passage (30) and the flow changing protrusion (31) have symmetrical shapes with respect to the axis. A protruding end of the flow changing protrusion (31) forms an inner peripheral edge of a passage hole (31c) that is open on both sides in the axial direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vibration-damping device comprising:
a tubular first attachment member coupled to any one of a vibration generating part and a vibration receiving part, and a second attachment member coupled to the other thereof;
an elastic body that couples the first attachment member and the second attachment member together; and
a partitioning member that partitions a liquid chamber within the first attachment member having a liquid enclosed therein into a main liquid chamber having the elastic body as a portion of a wall surface thereof, and an auxiliary liquid chamber,
wherein a limiting passage that allows the main liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber to communicate with each other is formed in the partitioning member,
wherein an inner peripheral surface of the limiting passage is provided with a flow changing protrusion that protrudes toward an inner side in a radial direction of the limiting passage and that changes the flow of a liquid that flows into the limiting passage from the main liquid chamber and flows through the limiting passage in an axial direction of the limiting passage,
wherein, in a vertical cross-sectional view passing through an axis of the limiting passage and through the flow changing protrusion, the limiting passage and the flow changing protrusion have symmetrical shapes with respect to the axis of the limiting passage,
wherein a protruding end of the flow changing protrusion forms an inner peripheral edge of a passage hole that is open on both sides in the axial direction of the limiting passage, and
wherein the flow changing protrusion is formed integrally with the partitioning member as a rigid body having rigidity such that the flow changing protrusion is not deformed when the flow of the liquid is received.

2. The vibration-damping device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the flow changing protrusion partitions the limiting passage into a flow changing space that is formed between the flow changing protrusion and an inner peripheral surface of the limiting passage and changes the flow of the liquid flowing thereinto, and a passage space that has the passage hole and allows the liquid flowing thereinto to pass therethrough.

3. The vibration-damping device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the flow changing protrusion extends in the axial direction, and an opening thereof on a protruding end side is formed in a tubular shape used as the passage hole,
wherein the flow changing space is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the flow changing protrusion and an inner peripheral surface of the limiting passage, and
wherein the passage space is formed by an inner peripheral surface of the flow changing protrusion.

4. The vibration-damping device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the outer peripheral surface of the flow changing protrusion gradually decreases in diameter from a base end located on an auxiliary liquid chamber side toward a protruding end in the axial direction.

5. The vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the flow changing protrusion protrudes only in one direction of the axial direction of the limiting passage, such that the flow changing protrusion approaches the main liquid chamber as the flow changing protrusion protrudes from the inner peripheral surface of the limiting passage.

6. A vibration-damping device comprising:
a tubular first attachment member coupled to any one of a vibration generating part and a vibration receiving part, and a second attachment member coupled to the other thereof;
an elastic body that couples the first attachment member and the second attachment member together; and
a partitioning member that partitions a liquid chamber within the first attachment member having a liquid enclosed therein into a main liquid chamber having the elastic body as a portion of a wall surface thereof, and an auxiliary liquid chamber,
wherein a limiting passage that allows the main liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber to communicate with each other is formed in the partitioning member,
wherein the limiting passage includes a main opening, a linear passage part, a circumferential groove part, and a sub-opening,
wherein the main opening extends in a parallel direction with respect to an axis of the first attachment member from a first end on one end surface of the partitioning member in communication with the main liquid chamber to a second end terminating within the partitioning member,
wherein the linear passage part extends in an orthogonal direction with respect to the axis of the first attachment member from the second end of the main opening to a peripheral end opening in an outer peripheral surface of the partitioning member,
wherein the circumferential groove part is formed between the outer peripheral surface of the partitioning member and an inner peripheral surface of the first attachment member,
wherein the circumferential groove part extends in a circumferential direction from the peripheral end of the linear passage part to the other peripheral end,
wherein the sub-opening extends in a parallel direction with respect to the axis of the first attachment member from the other peripheral end of the circumferential groove part to the other end surface of the partitioning member in communication with the auxiliary liquid chamber,
wherein an inner peripheral surface of the linear passage part is provided with a flow changing protrusion that protrudes toward an inner side in a radial direction of the linear passage part and that changes the flow of a liquid that flows into the linear passage part from the main liquid chamber and flows through the limiting passage in an axial direction of the linear passage part,
wherein, in a vertical cross-sectional view passing through an axis of the linear passage part and through the flow changing protrusion, the linear passage part and the flow changing protrusion have symmetrical shapes with respect to the axis of the linear passage part, and
wherein a protruding end of the flow changing protrusion forms an inner peripheral edge of a passage hole that is open on both sides in the axial direction of the linear passage part.

7. The vibration-damping device according to claim 6 , wherein the flow changing protrusion protrudes only in one direction of the axial direction of the linear passage part, such that the flow changing protrusion approaches the main liquid chamber as the flow changing protrusion protrudes from the inner peripheral surface of the linear passage part.

8. The vibration-damping device according to claim 6 , wherein the flow changing protrusion is formed integrally with the partitioning member as a rigid body.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Ueki Akira

Classifications

• F16F13/10

  the wall being at least in part formed by a flexible membrane or the like (F16F13/14 - F16F13/18 take precedence) · CPC title

• F16F13/107 Primary

  Passage design between working chambers · CPC title

• B60K5/1208

  Resilient supports (B60K5/1241 - B60K5/1291 take precedence) · CPC title

• F16F13/14

  Units of the bushing type {, i.e. loaded predominantly radially (bushes F16F1/38; mounting brackets therefor F16F1/3849)} · CPC title