Damper and handle device having the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9638279-B2
Application number	US-201414508868-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2014
Priority date	Oct 10, 2013
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

An embodiment provides a damper a damper including: a housing; a rotor; and a sealing member. The housing includes outer and inner cylinder portions to define a filling space portion therebetween for filling with a viscose fluid. The rotor includes a head portion and a cylinder portion extended downwardly therefrom so as to be inserted into the filling space portion. The sealing member seals the filling space portion. The rotor further includes axially-extending first and second groove portions provided on outer and inner peripheral surfaces of the cylinder portion near the bottom portion thereof. At least one of the first groove portions includes a communicating portion which communicates the inside and the outside of the rotor, and the second groove portion is apart from the communicating portion in a circumferential direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A damper comprising:
a housing that includes:
an outer cylinder portion;
an inner cylinder portion provided inwardly of the outer cylinder portion;
a bottom portion arranged to connect the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion; and
a filling space portion defined between the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion, a viscose fluid being filled in the filling space portion;

a rotor that includes:
a head portion; and
a rotor cylinder portion extended downwardly from the head portion and disposed in the filling space portion; and

a sealing member arranged to seal the filling space portion,
wherein the rotor further includes:
first groove portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor cylinder portion near the bottom portion apart from the sealing member so as to extend in an axial direction; and
a second groove portion provided on an inner peripheral surface of the rotor cylinder portion near the bottom portion apart from the sealing member so as to extend in the axial direction,

wherein at least one of the first groove portions includes a communicating portion which communicates the inside and the outside of the rotor, and the second groove portion is apart from the communicating portion in a circumferential direction,
wherein the communicating portion includes a notch portion formed by notching a distal end portion of the rotor cylinder portion at a side of the bottom portion.

2. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the first groove portion provided with the communicating portion and the first groove portion provided not with the communicating portion are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.

3. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the communicating portion includes a communicating hole provided to the first groove portion, and
wherein the first groove portion provided with the communicating hole and the first groove portion provided with the notch portion are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.

4. A damper comprising:
a housing that includes:
an outer cylinder portion;
an inner cylinder portion provided inwardly of the outer cylinder portion;
a bottom portion arranged to connect the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion; and
a filling space portion defined between the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion, a viscose fluid being filled in the filling space portion;

a rotor that includes:
a head portion; and
a rotor cylinder portion extended downwardly from the head portion and disposed in the filling space portion; and

a sealing member arranged to seal the filling space portion,
wherein the rotor further includes:
first groove portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor cylinder portion near the bottom portion apart from the sealing member so as to extend in an axial direction; and
a second groove portion provided on an inner peripheral surface of the rotor cylinder portion near the bottom portion apart from the sealing member so as to extend in the axial direction,

wherein at least one of the first groove portions includes a communicating portion which communicates the inside and the outside of the rotor, and the second groove portion is apart from the communicating portion in a circumferential direction,
wherein the sealing member includes:
a first sealing member disposed on an outer side of the rotor; and
a second sealing member disposed on an inner side of the rotor, and

wherein a holding space for the second sealing member provided between an inner peripheral surface of the rotor and an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder portion is longer than a holding space for the first sealing member provided between an outer peripheral surface of the rotor and an inner peripheral surface of the outer cylinder portion in the axial direction.

5. A handle device comprising:
a grip portion provided rotatable from a normal state to a usage state and arranged to be gripped by a user;
a shaft portion arranged to pivotally support the grip portion;
a spring portion arranged to urge the grip portion in a direction of returning from the usage state to the normal state; and
a damper arranged to damp a rotational movement of the grip portion,
wherein the damper comprises:
a housing that includes:
an outer cylinder portion;
an inner cylinder portion provided inwardly of the outer cylinder portion;
a bottom portion arranged to connect the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion; and
a filling space portion defined between the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion, a viscose fluid being filled in the filling space portion;

a rotor that includes:
a head portion; and
a rotor cylinder portion extended downwardly from the head portion and disposed in the filling space portion; and

a sealing member arranged to seal the filling space portion,
wherein the rotor further includes:
first groove portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor cylinder portion near the bottom portion apart from the sealing member so as to extend in an axial direction; and
a second groove portion provided on an inner peripheral surface of the rotor cylinder portion near the bottom portion apart from the sealing member so as to extend in the axial direction,

wherein at least one of the first groove portions includes a communicating portion which communicates the inside and the outside of the rotor, and the second groove portion is apart from the communicating portion in a circumferential direction,
wherein the communicating portion includes a notch portion formed by notching a distal end portion of the rotor cylinder portion at a side of the bottom portion.

6. The damper of claim 1 , wherein bubbles from the viscose fluid are collected at at least one of the first groove portions and the second groove portion.

7. The damper of claim 1 , wherein bubbles from the viscose fluid are collected at at least one of the first groove portions and the second groove portion, thereby preventing the bubbles from spreading onto peripheral surfaces of the rotor.

8. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the filling space portion defined between the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion is configured such that a pressure of the viscose fluid on an outer side of the rotor cylinder portion is greater than a pressure of viscose fluid on an inner side of the rotor cylinder portion.

9. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the housing and the rotor are rotatable with respect to each other.

10. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the housing further includes a protruding portion that protrudes outwardly in a radial direction of an outer peripheral surface of the outer cylinder portion.

11. The damper of claim 10 , wherein the protruding portion limits a rotation of the housing.

12. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the first groove portions are provided in a circumferential direction of the rotor apart from each other at regular intervals.

13. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the notch portion and the communicating portion are provided to the first groove portions such that bubbles collected at the first groove portions are moved to the notch portion and the communicating portion.

14. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the notch portion and the communicating portion are disposed at different positions in the axial direction.

15. The damper of claim 1 , wherein the second groove portion is spaced apart from the notch portion and the communicating portion in the circumferential direction.

Assignees

• Piolax Inc
• Piolax Inc

Inventors

• Ichioka Hiroaki
• Saito Jun

Classifications

• F16F9/12 Primary

  Devices with one or more rotary vanes turning in the fluid any throttling effect being immaterial, {i.e. damping by viscous shear effect only (F16F9/53 takes precedence; pivoting supports for apparatus or articles placed on stands or trestles F16M11/06)} · CPC title

• B60N3/023 Primary

  movable · CPC title

• F16F2230/30

  Sealing arrangements · CPC title