IP Library Granted Patent US 8,302,946
Granted Patent B2
US 8,302,946 · App. 11/664,066 · Granted Nov 6, 2012

Vibration proofing apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,302,946
App. No.
11/664,066
Granted
Nov 6, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a vibration proofing apparatus, two second pressure receiving liquid chambers are arranged between an outer tube and a mounting attachment, and are configured to communicate with an auxiliary liquid chamber through two second orifices when an auxiliary vibration along an auxiliary amplitude direction orthogonal to an axial direction is input to the mounting attachment, a rubber elastic body is elastically deformed along an auxiliary amplitude direction, and expands and contracts an internal volume of the second pressure receiving liquid chambers. At this time, since a resonance phenomenon is generated in the liquid circulating between the second pressure receiving liquid chambers and the auxiliary liquid chamber through the second orifices in synchronization with the input auxiliary vibration, a low-frequency vibration input along the auxiliary amplitude direction due to a pressure change, and a viscous resistance generated together with the resonance phenomenon of the liquid is effectively absorbed.

Claims (33)

1. A vibration proofing apparatus comprising:

a first mounting member coupled to one of a vibration generating portion and a vibration receiving portion, and formed in an approximately tubular shape;

a second mounting member coupled to the other of the vibration generating portion and the vibration receiving portion, and arranged in an inner peripheral side of the first mounting member;

a rubber elastic body arranged between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, and elastically coupling the first mounting member and the second mounting member;

a first pressure receiving liquid chamber arranged at an axial end of the second mounting member, and in an inner peripheral side of the first mounting member, and in which at least a part of an inner wall is formed by the elastic body, and a liquid is filled;

an auxiliary liquid chamber in which the liquid is filled, a part of a partition wall is formed by a diaphragm and an internal volume is capable of being expanded and contracted in correspondence to a liquid pressure change;

a first limit passage communicating the first pressure receiving liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber with each other so as to make the liquid circulatable;

a second pressure receiving liquid chamber arranged between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, and in which at least a part of an inner wall is formed by the elastic body, and the liquid is filled;

a second limit passage communicating the second pressure receiving liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber with each other so as to make the liquid circulatable; and

a partition member arranged in an inner peripheral side of the first mounting member, the partition member comparting the first pressure receiving liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber, and the second pressure receiving liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber;

wherein the rubber elastic body comparts the first pressure receiving liquid chamber and the second pressure receiving liquid chamber.

2. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second limit passage is formed in the partition member.

3. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein when the elastic body is elastically deformed by the input of the vibration along a main amplitude direction approximately coinciding with the axial direction to the first mounting member or the second mounting member, the elastic body expands and contracts an internal volume of the first pressure receiving liquid chamber due to the elastic deformation along the main amplitude direction.

4. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 3 , wherein when the elastic body is elastically deformed by the input of the vibration along an auxiliary amplitude direction approximately orthogonal to the axial direction to the first mounting member or the second mounting member, the elastic body expands and contracts an internal volume of the second pressure receiving liquid chamber due to the elastic deformation along the auxiliary amplitude direction.

5. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the second pressure receiving liquid chamber is provided in one end side along the auxiliary amplitude direction between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, a cavity portion is provided in an other end side along the auxiliary amplitude direction between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, and at least a part of an inner wall of the cavity portion is formed by the elastic body, thereby approximately balancing a rigidity against an input load toward the one end side along the auxiliary amplitude direction of the elastic body and an input load toward the other end side.

6. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein when the elastic body is elastically deformed by the input of the vibration along a main amplitude direction approximately coinciding with the axial direction to the first mounting member or the second mounting member, the elastic body expands and contracts an internal volume of the first pressure receiving liquid chamber and the second pressure receiving liquid chamber due to the elastic deformation along the main amplitude direction.

7. A vibration proofing apparatus comprising:

a first mounting member coupled to one of a vibration generating portion and a vibration receiving portion, and formed in an approximately tubular shape;

a second mounting member coupled to the other of the vibration generating portion and the vibration receiving portion, and arranged in an inner peripheral side of the first mounting member;

a rubber elastic body arranged between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, and elastically coupling the first mounting member and the second mounting member;

a first pressure receiving liquid chamber arranged at an axial end of the second mounting member, and in an inner peripheral side of the first mounting member, and in which at least a part of an inner wall is formed by the elastic body, and a liquid is filled;

an auxiliary liquid chamber in which the liquid is filled, a part of a partition wall is formed by a diaphragm and an internal volume is capable of being expanded and contracted in correspondence to a liquid pressure change;

a first limit passage communicating the first pressure receiving liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber with each other so as to make the liquid circulatable;

a plurality of second pressure receiving liquid chambers arranged between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, and in which at least a part of an inner wall is formed by the elastic body, and the liquid is filled;

a plurality of second limit passages communicating each of the plurality of second pressure receiving liquid chambers with the auxiliary liquid chamber so as to make the liquid circulatable between the plurality of second pressure receiving liquid chambers and the auxiliary liquid chamber; and

a partition member arranged in an inner peripheral side of the first mounting member, the partition member comparting the first pressure receiving liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber, and the second pressure receiving liquid chambers and the auxiliary liquid chamber;

wherein the rubber elastic body comparts the first pressure receiving liquid chamber and the second pressure receiving liquid chambers.

8. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of second limit passages are formed in the partition member.

9. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 7 , wherein when the elastic body is elastically deformed by the input of the vibration along a main amplitude direction approximately coinciding with the axial direction to the first mounting member or the second mounting member, the elastic body expands and contracts an internal volume of the first pressure receiving liquid chamber due to the elastic deformation along the main amplitude direction.

10. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 9 , wherein when the elastic body is elastically deformed by the input of the vibration along an auxiliary amplitude direction approximately orthogonal to the axial direction to the first mounting member or the second mounting member, the elastic body expands and contracts an internal volume of the second pressure receiving liquid chambers due to the elastic deformation along the auxiliary amplitude direction.

11. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 8 , wherein when the elastic body is elastically deformed by the input of the vibration along a main amplitude direction approximately coinciding with the axial direction to the first mounting member or the second mounting member, the elastic body expands and contracts an internal volume of the first pressure receiving chamber and the second pressure receiving liquid chambers due to the elastic deformation along the main amplitude direction.

12. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 10 , wherein a pair of the second pressure receiving liquid chambers are provided between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, one of the second pressure receiving liquid chambers is arranged in one end side along the auxiliary amplitude direction between the first mounting member and the second mounting member, and the other of the second pressure receiving liquid chambers is arranged in the other end side along the auxiliary amplitude direction between the first mounting member and the second mounting member.

13. The vibration proofing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an elastic partition wall portion is formed in the elastic body, the elastic partition wall portion comparts the second pressure receiving liquid chamber from an external space, and is elastically deformable in a direction of expanding and contracting the internal volume of the second pressure receiving liquid chamber, and a cross sectional shape along the auxiliary amplitude direction of the elastic partition wall portion is formed in such a curved shape as to bulge toward a room inside of the second pressure receiving liquid chamber.

Assignments (3)
ABSORPTION-TYPE COMPANY SPLIT Recorded Jun 24, 2022
From: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
To: PROSPIRA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060439/0890 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 29, 2008
From: KOJIMA, HIROSHI; OTSUBO, YOSHITAKA
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021487/0260 →
TO ADD SECOND ASSIGNEE TO ASSIGNMENT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT 021487/0260 ON 8/29/08 Recorded Aug 29, 2008
From: KOJIMA, HIROSHI; OTSUBO, YOSHITAKA
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION; HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021515/0008 →