Damper

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11739808-B2
Application number	US-201916968516-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2019
Priority date	Mar 28, 2018
Publication date	Aug 29, 2023
Grant date	Aug 29, 2023

Abstract

Provided is a damper capable of securely assembling a cap on an outer circumference of a rod while reducing a diameter of the cap and reducing an outer diameter of a cylinder. A damper has a cylinder, a rod, and a cap attached to an opening of the cylinder. The rod has a piston on its tip side and a mounting portion mounted on the other of a pair of members on its base end side, the cap has a main body that extends in an axial direction of the rod, and the main body is formed with a receiving opening that can receive the rod from an outside in a radial direction thereof.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A damper that is attached to a pair of members approaching or separating from each other and gives a damping force when the pair of members approaches or separates from each other, comprising:
a tubular cylinder that has an opening formed at its end portion and is connected to one of the pair of members;
a rod that is movably inserted from its tip through the opening of the cylinder; and
a cap that is attached to the opening of the cylinder and prevents the rod from slipping off from the opening of the cylinder, wherein
the rod has a piston on its tip side and a mounting portion mounted on the other of the pair of members on its base end side,
the cap has a main body that extends in an axial direction of the rod, and the main body is formed with a receiving opening that can receive the rod from an outside in a radial direction thereof,
the cap includes a pair of half-split members having a half-split cylindrical shape, and has a locking unit capable of locking the pair of half-split members to each other when assembled into a cylindrical shape, and
the locking unit is configured to lock the pair of half-split members so that they can be separated from each other by a predetermined distance, and is configured such that when the rod maximally moves in a withdrawal direction with respect to the cylinder, the rod contacts an inner circumference of the cap and the cap increases in diameter.

2. The damper according to claim 1 , wherein the cap is formed with protrusions extending in the circumferential direction on inner circumferences of both ends in the axial direction, a fitting portion that fits the cap into the opening of the cylinder is provided between the cylinder and the cap, and the fitting portion is provided to overlap the protrusions in the circumferential direction of the cap when the cap is viewed in the axial direction.

3. A damper that is attached to a pair of members approaching or separating from each other and gives a damping force when the pair of members approaches or separates from each other, comprising:
a tubular cylinder that has an opening formed at its end portion and is connected to one of the pair of members;
a rod that is movably inserted from its tip through the opening of the cylinder; and
a cap that is attached to the opening of the cylinder and prevents the rod from slipping off from the opening of the cylinder, wherein
the rod has a piston on its tip side and a mounting portion mounted on the other of the pair of members on its base end side,
the cap has a main body that extends in an axial direction of the rod, and the main body is formed with a receiving opening that can receive the rod from an outside in a radial direction thereof,
the cap has a shape in which one position in a circumferential direction of a cylindrical peripheral wall is separated through the receiving opening having a slit-shape extending in the axial direction, and
the rod is provided with an inclined portion that is gradually reduced in diameter toward the base end of the rod, and when the rod maximally moves in a withdrawal direction with respect to the cylinder, the inclined portion pushes and expands an inner circumference of the cap so that the cap increases in diameter.

4. The damper according to claim 3 , wherein an opening width of the slit-shaped receiving opening of the cap is formed smaller than an outer diameter of the rod.

Assignees

• Piolax Inc

Inventors

• Kato Kouichi

Classifications

• F16F9/3242 Primary

  of cylinder ends, e.g. caps · CPC title

• B60R7/06

  mounted on or below dashboards · CPC title

• F16F9/3214

  of pistons (F16F9/0227 and F16F9/36 take precedence; throttling passages in or on piston body F16F9/3405) · CPC title

• F16F7/09 Primary

  in dampers of the cylinder-and-piston type · CPC title

• F16F9/0227

  characterised by the piston construction · CPC title