Vibration-damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9400030-B2
Application number	US-201314409738-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2013
Priority date	Jun 25, 2012
Publication date	Jul 26, 2016
Grant date	Jul 26, 2016

Abstract

A vibration-damping device ( 10 ) includes a first attachment member ( 11 ) having a cylindrical shape connected to any one of a vibration generating unit and a vibration receiving unit, a second attachment member ( 12 ) connected to the other unit, an elastic body ( 13 ) configured to connect both of the attachment members, and a partition member ( 15 ) configured to divide a liquid chamber ( 16 ) in the first attachment member ( 11 ) into a main liquid chamber ( 17 ) having a wall surface formed partly from the elastic body ( 13 ), and a subsidiary liquid chamber ( 18 ). In the partition member ( 15 ), an accommodating chamber ( 47 ) in communication with the main liquid chamber ( 17 ) and the subsidiary liquid chamber ( 18 ) through communication holes ( 46 A, 46 B) opened in an axial direction, an elastically deformable membrane ( 48 ) accommodated in the accommodating chamber ( 47 ) and separately exposed to the main liquid chamber ( 17 ) and the subsidiary liquid chamber ( 18 ) through the communication holes ( 46 A, 46 B), and restriction sections ( 51 A, 51 B) disposed more outside in the axial direction than the communication holes ( 46 A, 46 B) and overlapping the membrane ( 48 ) through the communication holes ( 46 A, 46 B) in the axial direction are installed. According to the vibration-damping device ( 10 ), performance of the membrane ( 48 ) can be maintained for a long period of time.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vibration-damping device comprising:
a first attachment member having a cylindrical shape connected to any one of a vibration generating unit and a vibration receiving unit, and a second attachment member connected to the other unit;
an elastic body configured to connect both of the attachment members; and
a partition member configured to divide a liquid chamber in the first attachment member, in which liquid is sealed, into a main liquid chamber having a wall surface formed partly from the elastic body, and a subsidiary liquid chamber,
wherein, in the partition member,
an accommodating chamber in communication with the main liquid chamber through one or more first communication holes opened in an axial direction of the first attachment member and the subsidiary liquid chamber through one or more second communication holes opened in the axial direction, and
an elastically deformable membrane accommodated in the accommodating chamber and separately exposed to the main liquid chamber and the subsidiary liquid chamber through the first and the second communication holes is installed,
in the partition member, a restriction section disposed more outside in the axial direction than the first and the second communication holes and overlapping the membrane in the axial direction through the first and the second communication holes is installed; and
the first communication holes and the second communication holes are configured to penetrate in the axial direction a portion of the partition member, the portion being located between an inner surface of the accommodating chamber and an end surface of the partition member in the axial direction, and communicate the accommodating chamber with the main liquid chamber and the subsidiary liquid chamber.

2. The vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first and the second communication holes are disposed in plurality at intervals in a circumferential direction of the first attachment member,
the length in the circumferential direction of the communication holes is gradually increased from the inside toward the outside in a radial direction of the first attachment member,
an inter-hole portion disposed between the first and second communication holes neighboring in a circumferential direction of the partition member extends in the radial direction, and
the length in a circumferential direction of the inter-hole portion is gradually increased from the inside toward the outside in the axial direction.

3. The vibration-damping device according to claim 2 , wherein a surface of the inter-hole portion directed inward in the axial direction is formed in an arc shape convexed inward in the axial direction when seen in a cross-sectional view in both of the axial direction and the circumferential direction.

4. The vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first and the second communication holes are disposed in plurality at intervals in a circumferential direction of the first attachment member,
in the partition member, inter-hole portions are disposed between the first communication holes neighboring in the circumferential direction and between the second communication holes neighboring in the circumferential direction, and
the restriction section is disposed more outside in the axial direction than the inter-hole portions.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Kojima Hiroshi

Classifications

• F16F13/08

  the plastics spring forming at least a part of the wall of the fluid chamber of the damper (F16F13/20 - F16F13/24 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60K5/12

  Arrangement of engine supports · CPC title

• F16F13/106 Primary

  Design of constituent elastomeric parts, e.g. decoupling valve elements, or of immediate abutments therefor, e.g. cages · CPC title

• F16F13/10

  the wall being at least in part formed by a flexible membrane or the like (F16F13/14 - F16F13/18 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60K5/1208

  Resilient supports (B60K5/1241 - B60K5/1291 take precedence) · CPC title