Dust cover

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9863464-B2
Application number	US-201515518841-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2015
Priority date	Oct 22, 2014
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

A dust cover in which an improvement in sealing performance is achieved. A dust cover 100 used in a ball joint includes a seal main body made of an elastic body and integrally having a body portion 110 , a fixed portion 130 that is provided on one end side of the body portion 110 , and a seal portion 120 that is provided on the other end side of the body portion 110 , and an annular auxiliary seal 150 made of resin and provided in the seal portion 120 . The seal portion 120 includes an inner peripheral seal portion and a dust lip 122 , and the auxiliary seal 150 includes an auxiliary inner peripheral seal portion 151 , an auxiliary dust seal portion, and a supported portion 153 that is supported by a collar fixed to a shaft portion on an opposite side to the auxiliary dust seal portion in an axial direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A dust cover used in a ball joint including:
a ball stud that has a spherical portion at one end of a shaft portion;
a socket that has a bearing which receives the spherical portion and rotatably and swingably supports the ball stud; and
a coupling member that couples to the shaft portion on an opposite end of the shaft portion to the spherical portion,
the dust cover comprising:
a seal main body made of an elastic body and integrally having:
a deformable body portion;
a fixed portion that is provided on one end side of the body portion and is fixed to the socket; and
a seal portion that is provided on another end side of the body portion and is provided so as to be slidable on the shaft portion and the coupling member; and

an annular auxiliary seal made of resin or metal and provided in the seal portion, wherein the seal portion includes:
an inner peripheral seal portion that is slidable on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion; and
a dust seal portion that is slidable on an end surface of the coupling member, and the auxiliary seal includes:
an auxiliary inner peripheral seal portion that is slidable on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion;
an auxiliary dust seal portion that is slidable on the end surface of the coupling member; and
a supported portion that is supported by a fixed member fixed to the shaft portion on an opposite side to the auxiliary dust seal portion in an axial direction.

2. The dust cover according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of slits are formed on the opposite side of the auxiliary seal to the auxiliary dust seal portion in the axial direction, and a part that is provided with the inner peripheral seal portion and a part that is provided with the dust seal portion in the seal portion are connected to each other via the slits.

3. The dust cover according to claim 1 , wherein a resin material used for the auxiliary seal is higher in low temperature resistance than a rubber material used for the seal main body.

4. The dust cover according to claim 2 , wherein a resin material used for the auxiliary seal is higher in low temperature resistance than a rubber material used for the seal main body.

5. The dust cover according to claim 1 , wherein the dust seal portion has a dust lip that extends radially outwardly toward a surface side of the coupling member, and the dust lip satisfies 0.45<T÷L<0.6, where T represents a width of a base of the dust lip, and L represents a length of the dust lip.

6. A dust cover used in a ball joint including:
a ball stud that has a spherical portion at one end of a shaft portion;
a socket that has a bearing which receives the spherical portion and rotatably and swingably supports the ball stud; and
a coupling member that couples to the shaft portion on an opposite end of the shaft portion to the spherical portion, the dust cover comprising:
a seal main body made of an elastic body and integrally having:
a deformable body portion;
a fixed portion that is provided on one end side of the body portion and is fixed to the socket, and
a seal portion that is provided on another end side of the body portion and is provided so as to be slidable on the shaft portion and the coupling member; and

a reinforcing ring made of resin or metal and provided in the seal portion, wherein the seal portion includes:
an inner peripheral seal portion that is slidable on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion; and
a dust seal portion that is slidable on an end surface of the coupling member, wherein the inner peripheral seal portion has:
a first inner peripheral convex portion that is slidable on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion; and
a second inner peripheral convex portion that is provided adjacent to the first inner peripheral convex portion and closer to the one end side than the first inner peripheral convex portion, and is slidable on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion, the reinforcing ring includes:
a supported portion that is supported by a fixed member fixed to the shaft portion on the one end side; and
an inward flange portion that is provided on the other end side and is buried in the seal portion, wherein a tip of the inward flange portion is provided so as to be positioned between a radially inward foremost end portion of the first inner peripheral convex portion and a radially inward foremost end portion of the second inner peripheral convex portion in an axial direction.

7. The dust cover according to claim 6 , wherein a difference between an outer diameter of a part of the shaft portion on which the second inner peripheral convex portion slides and an inner diameter of the tip of the inward flange portion is larger than a difference between the outer diameter and an inner diameter of the radially inward foremost end portion of the second inner peripheral convex portion.

8. The dust cover according to claim 6 , wherein the dust seal portion has a dust lip that extends radially outwardly toward a surface side of the coupling member, and the dust lip satisfies 0.45≦T÷L≦0.6, where T represents a width of a base of the dust lip, and L represents a length of the dust lip.

Assignees

• Nok Corp

Inventors

• Hosen Tatsuro
• Kanagawa Koji

Classifications

• F16C11/0695

  Mounting of ball-joints, e.g. fixing them to a connecting rod · CPC title

• F16J15/52

  by means of sealing bellows or diaphragms (connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B60C29/00) · CPC title

• F16C11/0671 Primary

  allowing operative relative movement of joint parts due to flexing of the sealing means · CPC title

• F16C11/0633

  the linings being made of plastics · CPC title

• F16C2326/05

  Vehicle suspensions, e.g. bearings, pivots or connecting rods used therein · CPC title