Vibration control bush

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11215254-B2
Application number	US-201916659849-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2019
Priority date	Oct 26, 2018
Publication date	Jan 4, 2022
Grant date	Jan 4, 2022

Abstract

To provide a vibration control bush that ensures improved durability of a rubber elastic body. An inner pipe film portion of the vibration control has an inclined surface whose inclination angle θ with respect to an axis O direction is set to one degree or more and less than three degrees, and the inner pipe film portion has an end portion in the axis O direction whose thickness dimension is set to a quarter or less of a dimension in an axis O perpendicular direction from an outer peripheral surface of an inner pipe to an apex of the protruding portion. This ensures reducing a rubber elastic body to deform so as to bend (close contact) between the inner pipe film portion and the outer pipe film portion when a load in a wrenching direction is input. Accordingly, a durability of the rubber elastic body can be improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vibration control bush comprising:
an inner pipe that has a spherical protruding portion that protrudes outward in an axis-perpendicular direction and is formed continuously in a circumferential direction on a center side in an axial direction;
a cylindrically-shaped outer pipe disposed in an outside in the axis-perpendicular direction of the inner pipe, the outer pipe having an inner diameter set constant along the axial direction;
a rubber elastic body that joins an inner peripheral surface of the outer pipe and an outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe; and
a recessed portion recessed toward a center in the axial direction from an end surface in the axial direction of the rubber elastic body, wherein
the rubber elastic body includes an inner pipe film portion and an outer pipe film portion, the inner pipe film portion coating the outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe between the recessed portion and the inner pipe, the outer pipe film portion coating the inner peripheral surface of the outer pipe between the recessed portion and the outer pipe,
the vibration control bush has a thickness dimension of the inner pipe film portion set to gradually increase from an end portion in the axial direction to the center side in the axial direction,
the rubber elastic body has a linear inclined surface, a first curved surface, a linear straight line surface, and a second curved surface in a cross-sectional view cut off on a plane having an axis, the inclined surface configuring an outer peripheral surface on an end portion side in the axial direction of the inner pipe film portion and inclining with respect to the axial direction, the first curved surface being continuous with the inclined surface to configure an outer peripheral surface on a center side in the axial direction of the inner pipe film portion and being recessed toward the center side of the inner pipe in the axial direction, the straight line surface being continuous with the first curved surface and running along the axis-perpendicular direction, the second curved surface being continuous with the straight line surface to configure an inner peripheral surface on a center side in the axial direction of the outer pipe film portion and being recessed toward the center side of the inner peripheral surface of the outer pipe in the axial direction,
the inner pipe film portion has an end portion in the axial direction whose thickness dimension is set to a quarter or less of a dimension in the axis-perpendicular direction from the outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe to an apex of the protruding portion,
the inclined surface has an inclination angle with respect to the axial direction that is set to one degree or more and less than three degrees,
a boundary of the inclined surface and the first curved surface is positioned on the center side in the axial direction with respect to the end portion in the axial direction of the outer pipe film portion, and
a dimension in the axis-perpendicular direction from the outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe to a boundary of the first curved surface and the straight line surface is set to less than or equal to a dimension in the axis-perpendicular direction from the outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe to the apex of the protruding portion.

2. The vibration control bush according to claim 1 , wherein
the dimension in the axis-perpendicular direction from the outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe to the boundary of the first curved surface and the straight line surface is set to a half or more of the dimension in the axis-perpendicular direction from the outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe to the apex of the protruding portion.

3. The vibration control bush according to claim 1 , wherein
the first curved surface and the second curved surface are formed into respective arc shapes in the cross-sectional view cut off on the plane having the axis, and
a dimension in the axis-perpendicular direction from the boundary of the first curved surface and the straight line surface to a boundary of the second curved surface and the straight line surface is set smaller than curvature radii of the first curved surface and the second curved surface.

4. The vibration control bush according to claim 3 , wherein
the curvature radii of the first curved surface and the second curved surface are each set approximately identical.

5. The vibration control bush according to claim 3 , wherein
the curvature radius of the first curved surface is set smaller than the curvature radius of the second curved surface.

6. The vibration control bush according to claim 3 , wherein
the dimension in the axis-perpendicular direction from the boundary of the first curved surface and the straight line surface to the boundary of the second curved surface and the straight line surface is set to a quarter or more and less than three quarters of the curvature radii of the first curved surface and the second curved surface.

Assignees

• Toyo Tire Corp

Inventors

• Nakagaki Takahiro

Classifications

• F16F1/3835

  characterised by the sleeve of elastic material, e.g. having indentations or made of materials of different hardness (F16F1/3807, F16F1/387 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60G11/24

  characterised by means specially adapted for attaching the spring to axle or sprung part of the vehicle · CPC title

• B60G2204/41

  Elastic mounts, e.g. bushings · CPC title

• F16F1/393 Primary

  with spherical or conical sleeves · CPC title

• F16F1/3732 Primary

  having an annular or the like shape, e.g. grommet-type resilient mountings · CPC title