Damper device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9970487-B2
Application number	US-201314914809-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2013
Priority date	Sep 13, 2013
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

A damper device is provided with a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a coil spring and a spring seat. The coil spring is interposed in a circumferential direction between the first and second rotating bodies. The resin spring seat includes a seat portion, an overhang portion and a pair of clamping protrusions. The overhang portion extends in the circumferential direction from an outer diameter end of the seat portion and covers an outer diameter side of the coil spring. The clamping protrusions protrude from the seat portion and sandwich an attaching portion of the one of the rotating bodies. The clamping protrusions are relatively turnable in a radial direction of the rotating bodies. The clamping protrusions have a low-rigidity portion on an outer diameter direction side of the spring central axis and a high-rigidity portion on an inner diameter direction side of the spring central axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A damper device comprising:
a first rotating body;
a second rotating body;
a coil spring interposed in a circumferential direction between the first rotating body and the second rotating body with respect to a center rotation of the damper device, the coil spring having first and second ends supported to the first and second rotating bodies, the first and second ends of coil spring being oriented a direction along a spring central axis, which is a center of winding, toward the circumferential direction; and
a resin spring seat attached to one of the first and second rotating bodies, in a state in which the first and second ends of the coil spring are supported in the direction along the spring central axis;
the resin spring seat comprising:
a seat portion having a spring seating surface on which one of the first and second ends of the coil spring are seated in the direction along the spring central axis,
an overhang portion extending in the circumferential direction from an outer diameter end of the seat portion with respect to the center rotation of the damper device and covering an outer diameter side of the coil spring with respect to the center rotation of the damper device, and
a pair of clamping protrusions that protrude from the seat portion and are spaced apart from each other in a device axial direction so as to sandwich an attaching portion of the one of the first and second rotating bodies in the device axial direction, the clamping protrusions being attached to the attaching portion so as to be relatively turnable in a radial direction of the one of the first and second rotating bodies, and one of the pair of clamping protrusions having a low-rigidity portion on an outer diameter direction side of the spring central axis having a first rigidity and a high-rigidity portion on an inner diameter direction side of the spring central axis having a second rigidity that is higher than the first rigidity.

2. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the high-rigidity portion of the one of the pair of clamping protrusions is configured by erecting a rib on an outer side portion of the one of the pair of clamping protrusions, and the rib extends in a direction along an input direction from the coil spring when the first and second rotating bodies are relatively displaced in an axial direction.

3. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein
the rib is one of a plurality of ribs that are formed juxtaposed on the inner diameter direction side and the outer diameter direction side of the spring central axis, across the input direction.

4. The damper device according to claim 3 , wherein
the clamping protrusions are configured by forming an outer side shape of a protruding direction in a circular arc shape along a turning trajectory with respect to the attaching portion.

5. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein
the clamping protrusions are configured by forming an outer side shape of a protruding direction in a circular arc shape along a turning trajectory with respect to the attaching portion.

6. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein
the clamping protrusions are configured by forming an outer side shape of a protruding direction in a circular arc shape along a turning trajectory with respect to the attaching portion.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor
• Exedy Corp

Inventors

• Fujii Tomoharu
• Akasaka Yuuzou
• Uehara Hiroki
• Yoshimura Yoshinari
• Senoue Takeshi

Classifications

• F16F15/12326 Primary

  End-caps for springs · CPC title

• F16F15/123 Primary

  Wound springs {(F16F15/1213, F16F15/1216, F16F15/127 take precedence)} · CPC title

• F16F1/12

  Attachments or mountings {(F16F1/041, F16F13/02 take precedence; of combinations of vibration damper and mechanical spring for vehicle suspension units B60G15/02)} · CPC title

• F16D3/66

  the elements being metallic, e.g. in the form of coils · CPC title

• F16D3/12 Primary

  specially adapted for accumulation of energy to absorb shocks or vibration (by making use of fluid elements F16D3/80) · CPC title