Fluid mount having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10451141-B2
Application number	US-201715829550-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2017
Priority date	Sep 1, 2017
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

A fluid mount is provided having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance in which an automatic fluid opening and closing unit is installed between upper and lower fluid chambers. The fluid mount includes a core having a central bolt, engaged with an engine, inserted into a central portion of the core, and a rubber member formed on an outer circumferential surface of the core. The core and the rubber member are disposed in a bracket housing. The upper and lower fluid chambers and the automatic fluid opening and closing unit are installed between the upper and lower fluid chambers to continuously open and close a flow path through current change.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fluid mount having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance, including:
a core having a central bolt engaged with an engine and inserted into a central portion of the core, and a rubber member formed on an outer circumferential surface of the core, the core and the rubber member being disposed in a bracket housing;
an upper fluid chamber that contacts the core and the rubber member to seal a fluid therein;
a lower fluid chamber disposed under the upper fluid chamber to seal the fluid therein; and
an automatic fluid opening and closing unit installed between the upper fluid chamber and the lower fluid chamber to continuously open and close a flow path through current change,
wherein the automatic fluid opening and closing unit includes:
a yoke including a main body having an open upper surface and a receipt space formed therein, and a coil fixing plate disposed in a lower region of the receipt space and having a coil wound thereon; and
a plunger installed within the receipt space of the yoke, having a plurality of fluid apertures and moving vertically within the receipt space by magnetic force of the coil,

wherein the plunger includes a disc-shaped upper plate installed within the receipt space of the yoke, and spaced apart from the coil fixing plate by a predetermined interval, and
wherein the plunger installed within the receipt space of the yoke has a diameter less than a diameter of the receipt space, forming the flow path radially exterior to the upper plate of the plunger and the coil fixing plate as a fluid channel in communication with the upper fluid chamber and the lower fluid chamber.

2. The fluid mount having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance according to claim 1 , wherein the plunger includes:
the upper plate having the fluid apertures formed therethrough; and
a cylindrical rubber bridge installed at the lower part of the plunger.

3. The fluid mount having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance according to claim 2 , wherein a stopper to prevent connection between the plunger and the yoke when the plunger vertically moves is formed on a lower surface of the upper plate having the fluid apertures.

4. The fluid mount having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance according to claim 1 , wherein the plunger moves toward the coil fixing plate by magnetic force of the coil installed in the yoke.

5. The fluid mount having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance according to claim 2 , wherein the rubber bridge is bent outwards and closes the flow path when the plunger is lowered.

6. The fluid mount having continuously variable characteristics for improving driving performance according to claim 1 , wherein a width of the flow path is varied according to an intensity of current.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Kim Seung-Won

Classifications

• F16F13/262 Primary

  changing geometry of passages between working and equilibration chambers, e.g. cross-sectional area or length (F16F13/28 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16F13/305

  magnetorheological · CPC title

• F16F2230/0005

  Attachment, e.g. to facilitate mounting onto confer adjustability · CPC title

• F16F2230/18

  Control arrangements · CPC title

• B60Y2410/134

  Rheological, magneto- or electro- fluids · CPC title