Vibration-damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9719575-B2
Application number	US-201415022023-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2014
Priority date	Sep 20, 2013
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

A vibration-damping device ( 10 ) of the invention includes a tubular first attachment member ( 11 ) and a second attachment member ( 12 ); an elastic body ( 13 ); a partitioning member ( 17 ) that forms a main liquid chamber ( 14 ), a first auxiliary liquid chamber ( 15 ), and a second auxiliary liquid chamber ( 16 ); a first diaphragm ( 18 ) that constitutes a portion of the wall surface of the first auxiliary liquid chamber ( 15 ); and a second diaphragm ( 19 ) that constitutes a portion of the wall surface of the second auxiliary liquid chamber ( 16 ) and that has a smaller deformation resistance than the deformation resistance of the first diaphragm ( 18 ). The partitioning member ( 17 ) is provided with an idle orifice ( 31 ) that allows the main liquid chamber ( 14 ) and the first auxiliary liquid chamber ( 15 ) to communicate with each other and that produces resonance with respect to the input of an idle vibration, and a shake orifice ( 32 ) that allows the main liquid chamber ( 14 ) and the second auxiliary liquid chamber ( 16 ) to communicate with each other and that produces resonance with respect to the input of a shake vibration. An adjustment chamber ( 24 ) having an interior capable of being decompressed or compressed with respect to standard pressure or being open so as to be capable of being blocked with respect to the outside, is provided adjacent to the second auxiliary liquid chamber ( 16 ) with the second diaphragm ( 19 ) interposed therebetween. By including the configuration as described above, damping characteristics against vibrations are exhibited over a wide range of frequencies.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vibration-damping device comprising:
a tubular first attachment member coupled to any one of a vibration generating part and a vibration receiving part, and a second attachment member coupled to the other of the vibration generating part and the vibration receiving part;
an elastic body coupling both of the attachment members;
a partitioning member that is fitted into the first attachment member and forms a main liquid chamber having the elastic body as a portion of a wall surface of the main liquid chamber, and a first auxiliary liquid chamber and a second auxiliary liquid chamber provided independently from the main liquid chamber;
a first diaphragm that constitutes a portion of a wall surface of the first auxiliary liquid chamber; and
a second diaphragm that constitutes a portion of a wall surface of the second auxiliary liquid chamber and that has a smaller deformation resistance than the deformation resistance of the first diaphragm,
wherein the partitioning member is provided with an idle orifice that allows the main liquid chamber and the first auxiliary liquid chamber to communicate with each other and that produces resonance with respect to the input of an idle vibration, and a shake orifice that allows the main liquid chamber and the second auxiliary liquid chamber to communicate with each other and that produces resonance with respect to the input of a shake vibration, and
wherein an adjustment chamber having an interior capable of being decompressed or compressed with respect to standard pressure or being open so as to be capable of being blocked with respect to the outside, is provided adjacent to the second auxiliary liquid chamber with the second diaphragm interposed therebetween.

2. The vibration-damping device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the partitioning member is provided with a lock-up orifice that extends from the main liquid chamber toward the second auxiliary liquid chamber and that produces resonance with respect to the input of a lock-up vibration, a housing chamber that allows the lock-up orifice and the second auxiliary liquid chamber to communicate with each other, and a movable object that is housed within the housing chamber so as to be displaceable in an axial direction of the first attachment member, and
wherein the movable object is housed within the housing chamber so as to be displaceable in the axial direction so as to allow the lock-up orifice and the second auxiliary liquid chamber to communicate with each other through the housing chamber at the time of the input of the lock-up vibration and cut off the communication therebetween at the time of the input of the shake vibration.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Kojima Hiroshi

Classifications

• F16F13/268

  comprising means for acting dynamically on the walls bounding an equilibration chamber (F16F13/264 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

• F16F13/18 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

• B60K5/1208

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