Bracket-equipped vibration-damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9739333-B2
Application number	US-201615209031-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2016
Priority date	Oct 30, 2015
Publication date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Aug 22, 2017

Abstract

A bracket-equipped vibration-damping device including: a vibration-damping device main unit including first and second mounting members disposed separately from each other vertically and connected by a main rubber elastic body mutually and elastically; and a bracket mounted to the device main unit in a state that the bracket is fixed to the second mounting member inserted into the bracket laterally. A guide part of the second mounting member is inserted into a guide groove of the bracket extending in an insertion direction to be positioned vertically. The bracket includes a compression wall surface superposed to at least one of upper and lower end surfaces of the device main unit. A groove width inner surface of the guide groove opposite vertically to the compression wall surface is tilted to the compression wall surface so that the surfaces approach each other vertically toward the insertion direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bracket-equipped vibration-damping device comprising:
a vibration-damping device main unit comprising:
a first mounting member and a second mounting member being disposed separately from each other vertically; and
a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting the first mounting member and the second mounting member to each other; and

a bracket mounted to the vibration-damping device main unit in a state that the bracket is fixed to the second mounting member, which is inserted into the bracket in a lateral direction,
wherein the second mounting member has a guide part, while the bracket has a guide groove extending in a direction of insertion of the second mounting member into the bracket, and the guide part is inserted into the guide groove in order to be positioned vertically, and
the bracket includes a compression wall surface which is superposed to at least one of upper and lower end surfaces of the vibration-damping device main unit, and a groove width inner surface of the guide groove on an opposite vertical side to the compression wall surface is tilted relative to the compression wall surface so that the groove width inner surface of the guide groove and the compression wall surface approach each other vertically toward the direction of insertion of the second mounting member into the bracket.

2. The bracket-equipped vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the groove width inner surface of the guide groove is tilted relative to the direction of insertion of the second mounting member into the bracket so as to approach the compression wall surface positioned on the opposite vertical side toward the direction of insertion, while a surface of the guide part corresponding to the groove width inner surface of the guide groove is tilted in the same direction as the groove width inner surface of the guide groove.

3. The bracket-equipped vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , further comprising a covering rubber bonded on a surface of the guide part.

4. The bracket-equipped vibration-damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the guide part of the second mounting member includes a swage pin protruding in the direction of insertion, while the guide groove of the bracket includes a swage hole corresponding to the swage pin in an insertion end wall of the guide groove, and a tip part of the swage pin is fixed to an opening peripheral part of the swage hole by swaging with the swage pin being inserted in the swage hole.

5. The bracket-equipped vibration-damping device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vibration-damping device main unit further comprises: a fluid chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the main rubber elastic body with a non-compressible fluid sealed therein; and a compression member disposed on a vertical side of the second mounting member opposite to the first mounting member,
the groove width inner surface in the guide groove of the bracket on a side of the first mounting member is tilted relative to the direction of insertion of the second mounting member into the bracket, while the compression wall surface on a side of the compression member expands in the direction of insertion, and the groove width inner surface of the guide groove and the compression wall surface approach each other toward the direction of insertion, and
the vibration-damping device main unit is equipped with the bracket in a state that a lower end surface of the compression member that is the lower end surface of the vibration-damping device main unit is in contact with the compression wall surface so that a seal body disposed between the second mounting member and the compression member is clamped between the second mounting member and the compression member to constitute a seal structure of the fluid chamber.

6. The bracket-equipped vibration-damping device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the compression wall surface of the bracket on a side of the first mounting member is tilted relative to the direction of insertion of the second mounting member into the bracket so as to approach the groove width inner surface of the guide groove on an opposite side to the first mounting member toward the direction of insertion of the second mounting member into the bracket, and
the vibration-damping device main unit is equipped with the bracket in a state that the upper end surface of the vibration-damping device main unit that is on the side of the first mounting member is in contact with the compression wall surface and the main rubber elastic body is compressed vertically in advance.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Riko Co Ltd

Inventors

• Michiyama Wakako
• Oki Kenji

Classifications

• F16F13/10

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

• B60K5/1208 Primary

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

• F16F1/36

  made of rubber or other material having high internal friction, {e.g. thermoplastic elastomers (spring units consisting of several springs F16F3/08)} · CPC title

• F16F13/103 Primary

  characterised by method of assembly, production or treatment · CPC title

• F16F2226/04

  Assembly or fixing methods; methods to form or fashion parts · CPC title