Fluid-filled vibration damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9506522-B2
Application number	US-201514831107-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 20, 2015
Priority date	Jan 7, 2015
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

A fluid-filled vibration device including a pressure receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber communicated by an orifice passage and a connecting hole provided on a partition member partitioning the two chambers. The connecting hole is closed by a closing rubber elastic plate to which pressures of the two chambers are applied from the respective sides. The closing rubber elastic plate includes at its outer circumference edge part abutting retaining parts held by the partition member, an elastic deformation area which is provided circumferentially between the abutting retaining parts and elastically deformed to open the connecting hole, and a mass part provided at a circumference direction intermediate part of the elastic deformation area to constitute a mass-spring system together. The resonance frequency of the system is tuned to 50 Hz or greater and set higher than a tuning frequency of the orifice passage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fluid-filled vibration damping device comprising:
a first mounting member;
a second mounting member;
a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting the first mounting member and the second mounting member;
a pressure receiving chamber whose wall is partially defined by the main rubber elastic body;
an equilibrium chamber whose wall is partially defined by a flexible film;
a partition member partitioning the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber from each other;
a non-compressible fluid sealed in the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber;
an orifice passage mutually connecting the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber;
at least one connecting hole provided through the partition member to communicate the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber; and
a closing rubber elastic plate provided such that the closing rubber elastic plate is overlapped from a pressure receiving chamber side on the connecting hole to close the connecting hole, the closing rubber elastic plate is opened based on elastic deformation, and a pressure of the pressure receiving chamber is applied to a first surface of the closing rubber elastic plate, while a pressure of the equilibrium chamber is applied through the connecting hole to a second surface of the closing rubber elastic plate,
wherein the closing rubber elastic plate includes a plurality of abutting retaining parts at its outer circumference edge part, the abutting retaining parts are held in an overlapping state to the partition member, and are spaced away from one another in a circumference direction,
wherein between adjacent abutting retaining parts in the circumference direction, the closing rubber elastic plate includes at least one elastic deformation area configured to be elastically deformed based on a pressure difference between the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber to be separated from the partition member and to open the connecting hole, allowing fluid flow action between the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber through the connecting hole, and
wherein at least one mass part is provided at an intermediate part of the elastic deformation area in the circumference direction, the at least one mass part and the elastic deformation area constitute at least one mass-spring system, a resonance frequency of the mass-spring system is tuned to 50 Hz or greater, and a tuning frequency of the orifice passage is set to a lower frequency than the resonance frequency of the mass-spring system.

2. The fluid-filled vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein a thick wall part is provided on the intermediate part of the elastic deformation area, and the at least one mass part is constituted by the thick wall part.

3. The fluid-filled vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one mass part is integrally formed with the elastic deformation area.

4. The fluid-filled vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one mass part is provided on an outer circumference end part of the closing rubber elastic plate.

5. The fluid-filled vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one connecting hole comprises a plurality of connecting holes formed through the partition member, the at least one elastic deformation area comprises a plurality of elastic deformation areas formed on the circumference of the closing rubber elastic plate, the at least one mass part comprises a plurality of mass parts, the at least one mass-spring system comprises a plurality of mass-spring systems, and the plurality of mass-spring systems are constituted by providing the mass parts on the intermediate parts of the plurality of elastic deformation areas, respectively.

6. The fluid-filled vibration damping device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the closing rubber elastic plate includes: a center attachment part integrally formed at its center part, the center attachment part being attached in a fixed state to the partition member; and spoke shaped retaining parts extending in radial form toward an outer circumference side from the center attachment part, and
wherein the abutting retaining parts are provided so as to extend in the circumference direction from tip end parts of the spoke shaped retaining parts.

7. The fluid-filled vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the tuning frequency of the orifice passage is set to 5 to 15 Hz.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Riko Co Ltd

Inventors

• Komiya Yasuhiro
• Tanahashi Akihito
• Okumura Kei

Classifications

• B60K5/1208

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

• 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

• 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

• F16F13/106 Primary

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