Damper device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11619283-B2
Application number	US-201816644538-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 14, 2018
Priority date	Nov 14, 2017
Publication date	Apr 4, 2023
Grant date	Apr 4, 2023

Abstract

A damper device including an input element and an output element; an elastic body transmitting torque between the input element and the output element; and a rotary inertia mass damper having a mass body. The rotary inertia mass damper includes a sun gear, a carrier rotatably supporting pinion gears, and a ring gear that meshes with the pinion gears and serving as the mass body. A pair of washers is located on both sides of each pinion gear axially. The ring gear includes an annulus gear having internal teeth meshing with the pinion gears and a weight body fixed to the annulus gear such that the weight body is in contact with a side surface of the annulus gear. An inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in a radial direction by a tip of the pinion gear or an outer circumferential surface of the washer.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A damper device comprising:
a plurality of rotating elements including an input element to which torque from an engine is transmitted, and an output element;
an elastic body that transmits torque between the input element and the output element; and
a rotary inertia mass damper having a mass body that rotates in accordance with relative rotation between a first rotating element that is any of the plurality of rotating elements and a second rotating element that is different from the first rotating element, wherein
the rotary inertia mass damper has a planetary gear including a sun gear that rotates as a unit with the first rotating element, a carrier that rotatably supports a plurality of pinion gears and that rotates as a unit with the second rotating element, and a ring gear that meshes with the plurality of pinion gears and that serves as the mass body, and
at least one pair of washers is located on both sides of each the pinion gears in an axial direction,
the ring gear includes an annulus gear having a plurality of internal teeth that mesh with the plurality of pinion gears and a weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the weight body is in contact with a side surface of the annulus gear, and
an inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in a radial direction by a tip of the pinion gear or an outer circumferential surface of the washer.

2. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the ring gear includes a weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the weight body is in contact with one side surface of the annulus gear,
face widths of the annulus gear of the ring gear and the sun gear is less than a face width of the pinion gear, and
the annulus gear is located offset from the sun gear in the axial direction.

3. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the weight body.

4. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the washer, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with one side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

5. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
around the pinion gear, a second washer is located so as to be abuttable with a side surface on an opposite side of the annulus gear from the weight body side or a side surface on an opposite side of the weight body from the annulus gear side,
the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the at least one pair of washers and the second washer.

6. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the cone body includes a first weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the first weight body is in contact with one side surface of the annulus gear and a second weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the second weight body is in contact with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

7. The damper device according to claim 6 , wherein
an inner circumferential surface of the first cone body is supported in the radial direction by one of the one pair of washers,
an inner circumferential surface of the second cone body is supported in the radial direction by the other one of the one pair of washers, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the one side surface of the annulus gear and the other one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

8. The damper device according to claim 6 , wherein
inner circumferential surfaces of the first and second cone bodies are supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the one side surface of the annulus gear and the other one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

9. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein the first rotating element is the output element, and the second rotating element is the input element.

10. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the rotating elements include an intermediate element,
the elastic body includes an input elastic body that transmits torque between the input element and the intermediate element, and an output elastic body that transmits torque between the intermediate element and the output element, and
the first rotating element is the intermediate element, and the second rotating element is the input element.

11. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein the output element is operatively coupled to an input shaft of a transmission.

12. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein
the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the weight body.

13. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein
the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the washer, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with one side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

14. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein
around the pinion gear, a second washer is located so as to be abuttable with a side surface on an opposite side of the annulus gear from the weight body side or a side surface on an opposite side of the weight body from the annulus gear side,
the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and
movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the at least one pair of washers and the second washer.

Assignees

• Aisin Corp
• Aisin Aw Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshikawa Takuya
• Kinoshita Tomonori
• Taniguchi Tetsuro
• Kato Akiyoshi
• Oi Yoichi

Classifications

• F16H2045/0268

  the damper comprising a gearing · CPC title

• F16F15/13484

  acting on multiple sets of springs · CPC title

• F16H2045/0226

  comprising two or more vibration dampers · CPC title

• F16H45/02

  with mechanical clutches for bridging a fluid gearing of the hydrokinetic type (control of torque converter lock-up clutches F16H61/14) · CPC title

• F16F15/1478 Primary

  with a planetary gear system · CPC title