IP Library Granted Patent US 8,651,465
Granted Patent B2
US 8,651,465 · App. 12/996,472 · Granted Feb 18, 2014

Method of manufacturing bushing assembly and vibration damping rubber bushing

Inventors: Tatsuya Ito (Komaki, JP); Noboru Arakawa (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,651,465
App. No.
12/996,472
Granted
Feb 18, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of manufacturing a bushing assembly that includes a vibration damping rubber bushing having a round cylindrical resin outer cylinder, which is assembled by press fitting an outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder in an axial direction into a cylindrical metal mated component having a circular inside peripheral face. The vibration damping rubber bushing is press fit into the mated component with a rigid powder composed of material harder than the outer cylinder deposited in a section of the resin outer cylinder that is situated on the outside peripheral face and that mates with the inside peripheral face of the mated component, and the outer cylinder and the mated component are assembled in a mated condition such that the rigid powder intervenes between the outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder and the inside peripheral face of the mated component.

Claims (20)

1. A method of manufacturing a bushing assembly that includes a vibration damping rubber bushing having a round cylindrical resin outer cylinder, a rigid inner cylinder, and a rubber elastic body integrally vulcanization bonded to the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, and providing elastic linkage thereof, the bushing assembly being assembled by press fitting an outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder in an axial direction into a cylindrical metal mated component having a circular inside peripheral face, the method comprising the steps of:

press fitting the vibration damping rubber bushing into the mated component with the outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder: wherein

the outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder is subjected to blasting treatment with a rigid powder, which is employed as projectile material and is composed of material harder than the outer cylinder, the rigid powder being deposited in an embedded condition and retained in a section of the resin outer cylinder that is situated on the outside peripheral face and that mates with the inside peripheral face of the mated component; and

assembling the outer cylinder and the mated component in a mated condition such that the rigid powder intervenes between the outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder and the inside peripheral face of the mated component, wherein

a resin coating of epoxy resin is formed on the inside peripheral face of the mated component by cationic electrodeposition coating, coating, wherein the resin coating of epoxy resin is a film having a thickness of between about 10-30 μm; and

the rigid powder deposited in the embedded condition and retained in the section of the resin outer cylinder is embedded into the resin coating of epoxy resin formed on the inside peripheral face of the mated component in order to increase a dislodgement force of the vibration damping rubber bushing.

2. The method of manufacturing a bushing assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the rigid powder comprises a ceramic powder.

3. The method of manufacturing a bushing assembly according to claim 2 , wherein the rigid powder comprises alumina powder.

4. The method of manufacturing a bushing assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the rigid powder is a ceramic powder and has an angular shape as a result of blasting.

5. A vibration damping rubber bushing comprising:

a round cylindrical resin outer cylinder;

a rigid inner cylinder; and

a rubber elastic body integrally vulcanization bonded to the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder and providing elastic linkage thereof, and being adapted to be assembled with an outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder press fit in an axial direction into a cylindrical metal mated component having a circular inside peripheral face; wherein

a rigid powder composed of material harder than the outer cylinder is deposited in a section of the resin outer cylinder that is situated on the outside peripheral face and that mates with the mated component;

the rigid powder is deposited in an embedded condition on the outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder through blasting treatment of the outside peripheral face employing the rigid powder as projectile material; and

a resin coating of epoxy resin is formed on the inside peripheral face of the mated component by cationic electrodeposition coating, wherein the resin coating of epoxy resin is a film having a thickness of between about 10-30 μm; and

the rigid powder deposited in the embedded condition and retained in the section of the resin cylinder is embedded into the resin coating of epoxy resin formed on the inside peripheral face of the mated component in order to increase a dislodgement force of the vibration damping rubber bushing.

6. The vibration damping rubber bushing according to claim 5 , wherein the rigid powder comprises a ceramic powder.

7. The vibration damping rubber bushing according to claim 6 , wherein the rigid powder comprises alumina powder.

8. The vibration damping rubber bushing according to claim 5 , wherein the rigid powder is a ceramic powder and has an angular shape as a result of blasting.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 20, 2014
From: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 034016/0613 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 6, 2010
From: ITO, TATSUYA; ARAKAWA, NOBORU
To: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 025395/0492 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-018812 · Jan 29, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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