Fluid-filled type vibration damping device
View Patent ↗A Fluid-filled type vibration damping device, which is configured to be free from the necessity of supplying a continuous application of electricity to a coil so as to maintain a movable valve body in either an opened state or a closed state, is provided. The device includes a cam mechanism, which transmits a rotational drive force of a motor to the movable valve body in the form of a reciprocating drive force. In the device, a first rotation angle switch is connected to a first control switch in series relative to a motor coil, and a second rotation angle switch is connected to a second control switch in parallel relative to the first switch. The first rotation angle switch is turned on in a state of a first angular range θ 1 , and the second rotation angle switch is turned on in a third angular range θ 3 . When the first control switch and the second control switch receive the same control signal, they are brought into respective inverted ON/OFF states. The first angular range θ 1 includes a fourth angular range θ 4 , which has an angle different from at least a third angular range θ 3 . The third angular range θ 3 includes a second angular range θ 2 , which has an angle different from at least the first angular range θ 1.
1. A Fluid-filled type vibration damping device comprising:
a main rubber elastic body connecting a first mounting member and a second mounting member to each other;
a pressure-receiving chamber partially defined by a wall of the main rubber elastic body and charged with non-compressible fluid;
an equilibrium chamber partially defined by a flexible film and charged with non-compressible fluid;
a fluid passage communicating the pressure-receiving chamber with the equilibrium chamber;
a movable valve body changing a state of the fluid passage between an opened state and a closed state through a reciprocating motion thereof;
a motor rotated in response to an electric current supplied to a motor coil;
a cam mechanism installed on a drive force transmitting path from the motor to the movable valve body and transmitting a rotational drive force of the motor to the movable valve body in the form of a reciprocating drive force;
a control signal output unit outputting a control signal comprising an ON/OFF signal;
a first rotation angle switch connected to the motor coil in series and turned on when a rotation angle of the motor is included within a first angular range and turned off when the rotation angle of the motor is included within a second angular range different from the first angular range;
a first control switch connected to the first rotation angle switch in series and turned on when the control signal is an ON signal and turned off when the control signal is an OFF signal;
a second rotation angle switch connected to the motor coil in series and connected both to the first rotation angle switch and to the first control switch in parallel and turned on when the rotation angle of the motor is included within a third angular range, and turned off when the rotation angle of the motor is included within a fourth angular range different from the third angular range; and
a second control switch connected to the second rotation angle switch in series and connected both to the first rotation angle switch and to the first control switch in parallel and turned on when the control signal is an OFF signal, and turned off when the control signal is an ON signal,
wherein the first angular range includes at least the fourth angular range, and
the third angular range includes at least the second angular range.
2. The Fluid-filled type vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein
a period from a time at which the control signal is changed into an ON signal to a time at which the control signal is changed into an OFF signal is set to be longer than a period from a time at which the control signal is changed into an ON signal to a time at which the first rotation angle switch is turned off; and
a period from a time at which the control signal is changed into an OFF signal to a time at which the control signal is changed into an ON signal is set to be longer than a period from a time at which the control signal is changed into an OFF signal to a time at which the second rotation angle switch is turned off.
3. The Fluid-filled type vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein, when either rotating direction of the motor is set as a first direction,
an end of the first directional of the first angular range is included in the third angular range; and
an end of the first directional of the third angular range is included in the first angular range.
4. The Fluid-filled type vibration damping device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a round terminal formed around a rotor shaft of the motor such that the round terminal covers the rotation angular range of the motor, a first terminal formed on the rotor shaft of the motor at a location within the first angular range of the motor, and a second terminal formed on the rotor shaft of the motor at a location within the third angular range of the motor; and
a brush mounted to a stator of the motor and coming into contact with the round terminal, the first terminal or the second terminal in response to a rotation of the motor,
wherein the first rotation angle switch comprises the round terminal, the first terminal and the brush, and
the second rotation angle switch comprises the round terminal, the second terminal and the brush.
5. The Fluid-filled type vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the motor generates a unidirectional rotational drive force.
6. The Fluid-filled type vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the motor is a DC motor.
7. The Fluid-filled type vibration damping device according to claim 1 , wherein
the fluid passage comprises a first orifice passage and a second orifice passage, which is tuned in a frequency higher than that in the first orifice passage, and
the movable valve body switches the second orifice passage between an opened state and a closed state.