Centrifugal pendulum damper and torque transmission device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10533629-B2
Application number	US-201716069702-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2017
Priority date	Jan 14, 2016
Publication date	Jan 14, 2020
Grant date	Jan 14, 2020

Abstract

In the centrifugal pendulum damper, a plurality of pendulums are swingably supported on a rotating body. The pendulum includes a swinging shaft serving as the swing center and a rolling shaft including a rolling surface on the outer periphery thereof. The rotating body includes a plurality of pendulum support portions, and the pendulum support portion includes a swinging shaft guide portion that guides the swinging shaft in a radial direction of the rotating body, and a rolling shaft guide portion that is in rolling-contact with the rolling surface of the rolling shaft to cause the pendulum to swing around the swing axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A centrifugal pendulum damper in which a plurality of pendulums are swingably supported on a rotating body, wherein:
each pendulum includes a swinging shaft serving as the swing center of the pendulum and a rolling shaft including a rolling surface on an outer periphery thereof;
the rotating body includes a plurality of pendulum support portions which are provided to correspond to the plurality of pendulums and support the swinging shaft and the rolling shaft;
the plurality of pendulum support portions includes a swinging shaft guide portion including a radial guide surface configured to guide the swinging shaft in a radial direction of the rotating body, and a rolling shaft guide portion including a swing guide surface configured to come into rolling-contact with the rolling surface of the rolling shaft to cause the pendulum to swing around the swinging shaft; and
the plurality of pendulum support portions is configured such that the radial guide surface of the swinging shaft guide portion corresponding to the one pendulum and the swing guide surface of the rolling shaft guide portion are integrally and continuously formed.

2. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of pendulum support portions are through holes formed in the rotating body.

3. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 , wherein
the swing guide surface has a curved surface shape against which the rolling shaft is pressed, thereby preventing the swinging shaft from coming off from the swinging shaft guide portion.

4. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 , wherein
the swing guide surface has a curved surface shape in which a trajectory of the center of gravity position of the pendulum is a cycloid curve or an epicycloid curve.

5. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 , wherein
the swinging shaft of the pendulum moves in the radial direction along the radial guide surface as the rolling shaft rolls along the swing guide surface.

6. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 , wherein
the rolling shaft includes a roller that makes rolling-contact with the swing guide surface.

7. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 , wherein
the rolling shaft includes a rolling shaft large diameter portion which is in rolling-contact with the swing guide surface and is larger in diameter than a rolling shaft end portion.

8. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 , wherein
the swinging shaft includes a roller that makes rolling-contact with the radial guide surface.

9. A torque transmission device comprising the centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 1 .

10. A centrifugal pendulum damper in which a plurality of pendulums are swingably supported on a rotating body, wherein:
each pendulum includes a swinging shaft serving as the swing center of the pendulum and a rolling shaft including a rolling surface on an outer periphery thereof;
the rotating body includes a plurality of pendulum support portions which are provided to correspond to the plurality of pendulums and support the swinging shaft and the rolling shaft;
the plurality of pendulum support portions includes a swinging shaft guide portion including a radial guide surface configured to guide the swinging shaft in a radial direction of the rotating body, and a rolling shaft guide portion including a swing guide surface configured to come into rolling-contact with the rolling surface of the rolling shaft to cause the pendulum to swing around the swinging shaft;
the swing guide surface has a curved surface shape in which a trajectory of the center of gravity position of the pendulum is a cycloid curve or an epicycloid curve;
the swing guide surface has a shape of a single radius of curvature; and
the center of gravity position of the pendulum deviates from the center of the rolling shaft.

11. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 10 , wherein
the plurality of pendulum support portions is configured such that the swinging shaft guide portion corresponding to one pendulum and the rolling shaft guide portion are disposed at different positions of the rotating body to be separated from each other.

12. A centrifugal pendulum damper in which a support hole is formed in a pendulum support body to which a rotational force is transmitted, and a pendulum is swingably attached to the support hole, wherein:
the pendulum includes:
a pair of pendulum mass bodies connected by sandwiching the pendulum support body in an axial direction; and
a rolling element inserted through the support hole and including an axial end portion supported by the pendulum mass body; and

the pendulum mass body includes:
a rolling element support portion into which the axial end portion of the rolling element is inserted to be supported in a rollable and axially movable manner; and
an abutment portion against which a part of the axial end portion abuts in a rearward displacement direction of the rolling element when the pendulum is displaced in the axial direction.

13. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 12 , wherein:
the rolling element support portion is a recessed groove formed on each of opposed faces of the pair of pendulum mass bodies facing each other; and
the abutment portion is a groove bottom surface of the recessed groove.

14. The centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 12 , wherein:
the rolling element support portion includes an inner circumferential surface that supports the rolling element; and
the abutment portion is a protruding portion which protrudes from the inner circumferential surface toward the axial center of the rolling element.

15. A torque transmission device comprising the centrifugal pendulum damper according to claim 12 .

Assignees

• Nsk Ltd

Inventors

• Dohi Nagao
• Nishii Hiroki
• Kaneko Shohei
• Suzuki Eisaku

Classifications

• F16F15/145 Primary

  Masses mounted with play with respect to driving means thus enabling free movement over a limited range · CPC title

• F16F15/131

  the rotating system comprising two or more gyratory masses · CPC title

• F16F15/1202

  the damping action being at least partially controlled by centrifugal masses (F16F15/13128 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16F15/134

  Wound springs {(F16F15/1333, F16F15/1337, F16F15/137 take precedence)} · CPC title