Liquid-filled vibration isolating device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9435395-B2
Application number	US-201414276100-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 13, 2014
Priority date	Dec 10, 2009
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

In a liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to a first aspect of the present invention, at least one of a membrane support ( 11 ) and a membrane retainer ( 12 ) has a through hole ( 14 ) partitioned into a plurality of windows by one or more beams ( 15 ) each having a curved or deflected shape in a plane perpendicular to the thickness direction of a partition member ( 9 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A liquid-filled vibration isolating device, comprising:
a core member to be connected to one of a vibration generating body and a vibration transmitting body;
a cylindrical member to be connected to the other body;
an elastic member connecting the cylindrical member at one end thereof to the outer periphery of the core member in a fluid-tight manner;
a diaphragm attached to the other end of the cylindrical member in a fluid-tight manner;
a fluid chamber configured as a space defined inside the diaphragm, the space being filled with an incompressible liquid; and
a partition member partitioning the fluid chamber into a primary liquid chamber on the core member side and a secondary liquid chamber on the diaphragm side,
the partition member having a membrane, a membrane support supporting the membrane, a membrane retainer for restricting, in cooperation with the membrane support, a deformation amount or a displacement amount of the membrane, and a limit passage communicating the primary liquid chamber with the secondary liquid chamber,
the membrane support and the membrane retainer each having a through hole penetrating therethrough in a direction toward the primary and secondary liquid chambers, respectively,
wherein at least one of the membrane support and the membrane retainer has the through hole in which three or more beams extending inside the through hole are arranged, and the beams are each extended in an extending direction from the hole edge of the through hole while avoiding the center of the through hole such that and connected to the intermediate portion of the other beam adjacent thereto, so that the through hole is sectioned into a plurality of windows,
wherein the beams are components of and integral with at least one of the membrane support and the membrane retainer, and the beams are not part of the membrane,
wherein an imaginary vector extends along a longitudinal axis of each beam in the extending direction, and the imaginary vector of each beam does not pass through the center of the through hole.

2. The liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the membrane support and the membrane retainer that has the through hole provided with the beams is formed of a synthetic resin.

3. The liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to claim 1 , wherein the beams are each configured to have a beam thickness dimension d larger than a beam width dimension W.

4. The liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of windows defined by the beams are arranged in a circular symmetric manner in a plane perpendicular to the thickness direction of the partition member.

5. The liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to claim 1 , wherein the beams each have a curved or deflected shape in the plane perpendicular to the thickness direction of the partition member.

6. The liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to claim 1 , wherein the through hole in which the beams are arranged is circular in shape.

7. The liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to claim 1 , wherein a length perpendicular from the center of the through hole to a center line in the width direction of the beam is within a range of 2 to 5 times the width dimension W of the beam.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Tsutsumi Tatsuya

Classifications

• F16F13/105

  characterised by features of partitions between two working chambers · 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 Primary

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