Vibration damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9534655-B2
Application number	US-201314400692-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 21, 2013
Priority date	May 24, 2012
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

A vibration damping device includes: a cylindrical first attachment member and a second attachment member; and an annular first elastic body and an annular second elastic body, wherein, a liquid chamber is formed between the elastic bodies, elastic division walls that divide the liquid chamber into a plurality of pressure receiving liquid chambers are arranged, wherein the elastic division wall is joined to the first elastic body, and is also in abutment with the second elastic body, wherein the second attachment member is divided in the axial direction into: a first divided body to which an inner peripheral edge portion of the first elastic body is joined; and a second divided body to which an inner peripheral edge portion of the second elastic body is joined, and wherein the inner peripheral edge portions of the elastic bodies are located side by side in the axial O direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vibration damping device, comprising:
a cylindrical first attachment member that is joined to one of a vibration generating unit and a vibration receiving unit, and a second attachment member that is joined to the other; and
an elastic body that joins the attachment members,

wherein the elastic body comprises: an annular first elastic body and an annular second elastic body that are spaced from each other in an axial direction,
a liquid chamber in which liquid is enclosed is formed between the elastic bodies, and a plurality of elastic division walls that divide the liquid chamber into a plurality of pressure receiving liquid chambers are arranged in a circumferentially spaced manner, the pressure receiving liquid chambers being in communication with one another through a restriction passage,
the elastic division wall is joined to the first elastic body, and is also in abutment with the second elastic body,
the second attachment member is divided in the axial direction into: a first divided body to which an inner peripheral edge portion of the first elastic body is joined; and a second divided body to which an inner peripheral edge portion of the second elastic body is joined,
the inner peripheral edge portions of the elastic bodies are located side by side in the axial direction,
the first divided body is provided with restriction portions to which the inner peripheral edge portion of the first elastic body is joined from radially outward, which are arranged so as to overlap a radially inner end of the elastic division walls in the axial direction, and the radially inner end of the elastic division wall is sandwiched between the restriction portions and an inner peripheral edge portion of the second elastic body,
the second divided body is provided with a main unit and an attachment unit, the main unit being spaced from the first divided body in the axis line direction and forming an annular concave onion extending in a circumferential direction of the main unit between the main unit and the first divided body, and the attachment unit protruding toward the first divided body from the main unit and being connected to the first divided body, and
an inner peripheral edge portion of the first elastic body is fitted into the annular concave portion.

2. The vibration damping device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the restriction portions extend in the axial direction, and the inner peripheral edge portion of the first elastic body is joined to an end portion of the restriction portions on an elastic division wall side of the restriction portions along the axial direction, and
a chamfer is formed at the end portion of the restriction portions on the elastic division wall side of the restriction portions.

3. The vibration damping device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the restriction portions are formed by a portion of the first divided body at a same circumferential position as that of the elastic division wall being protruded outwardly in a radial direction.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Saito Hajime
• Tanaka Junko

Classifications

• F16F13/18 Primary

  characterised by the location or the shape of the equilibration chamber, e.g. the equilibration chamber, surrounding the plastics spring or being annular (F16F13/1418 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16F13/08 Primary

  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