Variable damping shock absorber

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10288140-B2
Application number	US-201515544373-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2015
Priority date	Jan 23, 2015
Publication date	May 14, 2019
Grant date	May 14, 2019

Abstract

A variable damping shock absorber has a sleeve and a piston rod, one end of the sleeve being an opening and the other end being closed, one end of the piston rod being inserted through the opening and slidable in an axial direction inside the sleeve. Two sets of friction plates are arranged in the axial direction between an inner wall of the sleeve and an outer wall of the piston rod. A friction plate is fixed in the axial direction with the inner wall of the sleeve, and a sliding friction force between each friction plate set and the outer wall of the piston rod gradually decreases from the closed end to the opening end of the sleeve. The structure can ensure that the damping force is variable under different load and rotational speed conditions.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A variable damping shock absorber, comprising a sleeve and a piston rod, one end of the sleeve being an opening and the other end being closed, one end of the piston rod being inserted into through the opening and being slideably provided in an axial direction inside the sleeve, wherein:
at least a first friction plate and a second friction plate are arranged in the axial direction between an inner wall of the sleeve and an outer wall of the piston rod, the first friction plate and the second friction plate are fixed in the axial direction on the inner wall of the sleeve, and a sliding friction force between the first friction plate and the second friction plate and the outer wall of the piston rod is different;
the first friction plate and the second friction plate are of a same material, and thicknesses of the first friction plate and the second friction plate in a radial direction of the sleeve are different,
the thicknesses of the first friction plate and the second friction plate decrease from the closed end to the opening end of the sleeve.

2. The variable damping shock absorber according to claim 1 , wherein the sliding friction force between the first friction plate or the second friction plate and the outer wall of the piston rod is gradually reduced from the closed end to the opening end of the sleeve.

3. The variable damping shock absorber according to claim 2 , wherein the first friction plate and the second friction plate have a same thickness in a radial direction of the sleeve and have a different friction coefficient of a surface of one side which is configured to be in contact with the outer wall of the piston rod, and the friction coefficients decrease from the closed end to the open end of the sleeve.

4. The variable damping shock absorber according to claim 2 , wherein the first friction plate and the second friction plate are of a same material, and thicknesses of the friction plates in a radial direction of the sleeve are different, and the thicknesses of each set of friction plates decrease from the closed end to the open end of the sleeve.

5. The variable damping shock absorber according to claim 1 , wherein the first friction plate and the second friction plate are cylindrical structures, and a chamfered structure for facilitating an insertion of the piston rod is provided at each end of the first friction plate and the second friction plate corresponding to the opening end of the sleeve.

6. The variable damping shock absorber according to claim 5 , wherein a head of the end, inserted into the sleeve, of the piston rod is provided with a truncated cone shaped guide structure which is easily passed through the friction plates.

7. The variable damping shock absorber according to claim 1 , wherein a head of the end, inserted into the sleeve, of the piston rod is provided with a truncated cone shaped guide structure which is easily passed through the first friction plate and the second friction plate.

8. A variable damping shock absorber, comprising a sleeve and a piston rod, one end of the sleeve being an opening, the other end being closed, one end of the piston rod is inserted into through the opening and is slideably provided in an axial direction inside the sleeve, wherein:
a first friction plate is arranged between an inner wall of the sleeve and an outer wall of the piston rod,
the first friction plate is fixed in the axial direction on the inner wall of the sleeve, and is in contact with the outer wall of the piston rod and relatively slides to each other,
when the piston rod is slid towards the opening, a friction force between the piston rod and the first friction plate along an axial direction of the piston rod is gradually reduced;
wherein the piston rod is a cylindrical structure, the first friction plate is a cylindrical structure affixed to the inner wall of the sleeve, and a thickness of the first friction plate is gradually reduced from a closed end to an opening end of the sleeve.

9. The variable damping shock absorber according to claim 8 , wherein a friction coefficient of an outer surface of the piston rod is gradually increased from the one end, inserted into the sleeve, to an other end.

10. A variable damping shock absorber, comprising a sleeve and a piston rod, one end of the sleeve being an opening, the other end being closed, one end of the piston rod is inserted into through the opening and is slideably provided in an axial direction inside the sleeve, wherein:
a first friction plate is arranged between an inner wall of the sleeve and an outer wall of the piston rod,
the first friction plate is fixed in the axial direction on the inner wall of the sleeve, and is in contact with the outer wall of the piston rod and relatively slides to each other,
wherein when the piston rod is slid towards the opening, a friction force between the piston rod and the first friction plate along an axial direction of the piston rod is gradually reduced;
a diameter of the piston rod is gradually increased from one end inserted into the sleeve to an other end, and the piston rod is a truncated cone shaped structure.

Assignees

• Qingdao Haier Washing Mach Co

Inventors

• Xu Sheng
• Lv Yanfen
• Xu Liang
• Peng Xiuwen

Classifications

• F16F2228/066

  Variable stiffness · CPC title

• D06F37/22 Primary

  in machines with a receptacle rotating or oscillating about a horizontal axis · CPC title

• F16F2222/04

  Friction · CPC title

• F16F7/09 Primary

  in dampers of the cylinder-and-piston type · CPC title

• D06F37/20 Primary

  Mountings, e.g. resilient mountings, for the rotary receptacle, motor, tub or casing; Preventing or damping vibrations · CPC title