Fluid-filled vibration-damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10415665-B2
Application number	US-201615135621-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2016
Priority date	Dec 8, 2014
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

A fluid-filled vibration-damping device including first and second mounting members elastically connected by a main rubber elastic body and a fluid chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the main rubber elastic body. A sealing member attached to the second mounting member has a step part, and an attaching tube part and a sealing tube part on opposite sides of the step part. A press-fit projection is formed peripherally partially on at least one of an inner peripheral face of the attaching tube part and an outer peripheral face of the second mounting member, so as to secure press-fit the second mounting member inserted into the attaching tube part. A transmission prevention part is provided in the step part on a portion that transmits press-fit stress from the attaching tube part to the sealing tube part so as to reduce stress transmission.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fluid-filled vibration-damping device comprising:
a first mounting member;
an annular second mounting member, the first mounting member being arranged above and spaced from the second mounting member on a center axis of the second mounting member;
a main rubber elastic body to which the first mounting member and the second mounting member are directly adhered by vulcanization such that the first mounting member and the second mounting member are elastically connected to each other by the main rubber elastic body;
a fluid chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the main rubber elastic body, a non-compressible fluid being sealed in the fluid chamber;
a partition member and a flexible film arranged overlapping on a bottom side of the second mounting member such that the fluid chamber is partitioned by the partition member into (i) a pressure-receiving chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the main rubber elastic body and (ii) an equilibrium chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the flexible film;
a tubular sealing member attached so as to cover outer peripheral surfaces of the partition member and the flexible film, and having a step part and being attached to the second mounting member, the sealing member having an attaching tube part and a sealing tube part on opposite sides of the step part;
at least one press-fit projection formed partially on a periphery of at least one of an inner peripheral face of the attaching tube part and an outer peripheral face of the second mounting member, the second mounting member being secured in the attaching tube part by press-fit contact of the press-fit projection; and
a stress transmission reduction part provided in the step part of the sealing member on a portion through which stress caused by press-fitting is transmitted from the attaching tube part to the sealing tube part such that the stress transmission reduction part reduces transmission of the stress from the attaching tube part to the sealing tube part,
wherein the stress transmission reduction part is a stress transmission reduction hole penetrating through the step part.

2. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one press-fit projection comprises a plurality of press-fit projections formed on the periphery of the second mounting member and the attaching tube part.

3. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the press-fit projection is formed on the inner peripheral face of the attaching tube part in the sealing member.

4. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein, with respect to the second mounting member and the attaching tube part, both a projecting tip of the press-fit projection and a contact face to which the projecting tip of the press-fit projection is abutted extend in an axial direction substantially without slanting with respect to the axial direction.

5. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one press-fit projection comprises a plurality of press-fit projections, each extending at a prescribed length along the inner peripheral face of the attaching tube part or the outer peripheral face of the second mounting member.

6. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 5 , wherein a projecting tip of each press-fit projection curves in a direction along the inner peripheral face of the attaching tube part or the outer peripheral face of the second mounting member.

7. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the press-fit projection extends in an axial direction to a proximal end of the attaching tube part.

8. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein a peripheral length of the stress transmission reduction part is not less than a peripheral length of the press-fit projection, and the press-fit projection is arranged in an intermediate portion in a peripheral direction of the stress transmission reduction part.

9. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the stress transmission reduction part is provided at a portion of the step part including a line contacting and parallel to the inner peripheral face of the attaching tube part, and the line passes through the stress transmission reduction part.

10. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein a reinforcing rib is provided at a portion of the step part away from the stress transmission reduction part so as to enhance deformation rigidity of the step part.

11. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a sealing rubber compressed by the second mounting member being press-fitted into the attaching tube part of the sealing member to seal the fluid chamber temporarily; and
an outer bracket installed around the second mounting member to exert a pressing force in an axial direction between the second mounting member and the sealing member so as to enhance a compression ratio of the sealing rubber to seal the fluid chamber fully.

12. The fluid-filled vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , further comprising a positioner that positions the second mounting member and the attaching tube part of the sealing member in relation to each other in a peripheral direction.

13. A fluid-filled vibration-damping device comprising:
a first mounting member;
an annular second mounting member, the first mounting member being arranged above and spaced from the second mounting member on a center axis of the second mounting member;
a main rubber elastic body to which the first mounting member and the second mounting member are directly adhered by vulcanization such that the first mounting member and the second mounting member are elastically connected to each other by the main rubber elastic body;
a fluid chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the main rubber elastic body, a non-compressible fluid being sealed in the fluid chamber;
a partition member and a flexible film arranged overlapping on a bottom side of the second mounting member such that the fluid chamber is partitioned by the partition member into (i) a pressure-receiving chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the main rubber elastic body and (ii) an equilibrium chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the flexible film;
a tubular sealing member attached so as to cover outer peripheral surfaces of the partition member and the flexible film, and having a step part and being attached to the second mounting member, the sealing member having an attaching tube part and a sealing tube part on opposite sides of the step part;
at least one press-fit projection formed partially on a periphery of at least one of an inner peripheral face of the attaching tube part and an outer peripheral face of the second mounting member, the second mounting member being secured in the attaching tube part by press-fit contact of the press-fit projection; and
a stress transmission reduction part provided in the step part of the sealing member on a portion through which stress caused by press-fitting, is transmitted from the attaching tube part to the sealing tube part such that the stress transmission reduction part reduces transmission of the stress from the attaching tube part to the sealing tube part,
wherein the partition member is supported by the second mounting member, the partition member being arranged on an inner peripheral side of the sealing tube part of the sealing member so that an outer peripheral face of the partition member is superposed to an inner peripheral

Assignees

• Sumitomo Riko Co Ltd

Inventors

• Goto Atsushi
• Ando Tetsuji
• Muraoka Mutsumi

Classifications

• F16F13/103 Primary

  characterised by method of assembly, production or treatment · CPC title

• B60K5/1208

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

• F16F13/08 Primary

  the plastics spring forming at least a part of the wall of the fluid chamber of the damper (F16F13/20 - F16F13/24 take precedence) · CPC title