Damper device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016252152-A1
Application number	US-201415030793-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 20, 2014
Priority date	Oct 24, 2013
Publication date	Sep 1, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The damper device is equipped with: a cylinder unit having a sliding inner wall surface; a piston unit, having a piston head, which has an outer diameter part that slides on the sliding inner wall surface of the cylinder unit, and divides the interior space of the cylinder unit into a first gas chamber and a second gas chamber, a rod extending from the second gas chamber side of the piston head, and a closed-end hole which opens toward the first air chamber side of the piston head and extends through the interior of the rod in the direction of the second air chamber; and a guide shaft affixed to the first gas chamber side of the cylinder unit and equipped with a tip part having an outer circumferential surface that slides on the inner wall surface of the closed-end hole of the piston unit.

First claim

1 . A damper device, comprising:
a cylinder unit including an internal space having a contacting inner wall surface; a piston unit having a piston head that has an outer circumferential portion that slides on the contacting inner wall surface of the cylinder unit and that divides the internal space of the cylinder unit into a first gas chamber and a second gas chamber, a rod that extends from an end of the piston head on a side of the second gas chamber, and a hole with a bottom that opens on the piston head on a side of the first gas chamber and that extends through an inside of the rod toward the side of the second gas chamber; and a guide shaft having a base portion that is fixed on the cylinder unit on a side of the first gas chamber, a shaft portion that extends from the base portion toward a side of the piston unit, coaxial with a sliding center axis of the piston unit, and a tip portion that is provided on a tip of the shaft portion and that has an outer peripheral surface that slides on an inner wall surface of the hole with the bottom of the piston unit, wherein in the piston unit, the hole with the bottom is guided along the outer peripheral surface of the guide shaft, and the outer circumferential portion is guided on the contacting inner wall surface of the cylinder unit, to move along the sliding center axis, such that the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber act as a damper with respect to a movement of the piston unit.

2 . The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the piston head has the outer circumferential portion having a circular shape and the hole with the bottom having a circular hole shape, the rod has an outer shape of a circle, a pressure-receiving area of the piston head on the side of the first gas chamber is expressed by {(an outer diameter of the piston head) 2 −(an inner diameter of the hole with the bottom) 2 }*constant, and a pressure-receiving area of the piston head on the side of the second gas chamber is expressed by {(the outer diameter of the piston head) 2 −(an outer diameter of the rod) 2 }*a constant, and a thrust in an axial direction of the piston unit produced due to a difference in the pressure-receiving areas when a pressure of the first gas chamber and a pressure of the second gas chamber are equal to each other is proportional to {(the outer diameter of the rod) 2 −(the inner diameter of the hole with the bottom) 2 }.

3 . The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
a high-pressure gas having a pressure increased from a supply pressure is supplied to the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber.

4 . The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein
a high-pressure gas having a pressure increased from a supply pressure is supplied to the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber.

5 . The damper device according to claim 3 , wherein
the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber are connected to each other through a variable aperture having an amount of aperture variable according to an external acceleration.

6 . The damper device according to claim 4 , wherein
the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber are connected to each other through a variable aperture having an amount of aperture variable according to an external acceleration.

7 . The damper device according to claim 5 , wherein
when the damper device is equipped in a car for suppressing a relative vibration between a platform car portion and a car body portion of the car, the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber are connected to each other through a variable aperture having an amount of aperture variable according to a lateral acceleration of the car.

8 . The damper device according to claim 6 , wherein
when the damper device is equipped in a car for suppressing a relative vibration between a platform car portion and a car body portion of the car, the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber are connected to each other through a variable aperture having an amount of aperture variable according to a lateral acceleration of the car.

Assignees

• Pneumatic Servo Controls Ltd
• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp

Inventors

• Sasaki Katsumi
• Goto Osamu
• Matsui Toshiaki

Classifications

• F16F9/3405

  Throttling passages in or on piston body, e.g. slots (F16F9/344, F16F9/3481 take precedence) · CPC title

• F16F9/46

  allowing control from a distance {, i.e. location of means for control input being remote from site of valves, e.g. on damper external wall (attachment of valve units to cylinders F16F9/325)} · CPC title

• F16F9/0236 Primary

  characterised by having a hollow piston rod · CPC title

• B61F5/10

  incorporating fluid springs · CPC title

• F16F9/0227

  characterised by the piston construction · CPC title