IP Library Granted Patent US 9,903,437
Granted Patent B2
US 9,903,437 · App. 13/266,564 · Granted Feb 27, 2018

Vibration absorption device

Inventors: Hideki Sugawara (Yokohama, JP); Katsumi Someya (Yokohama, JP); Naoki Maeda (Yokohama, JP); Yuzo Hattori (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
F16F13/105F16F13/08
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Patent No.
US 9,903,437
App. No.
13/266,564
Granted
Feb 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A floor portion ( 34 ) is formed to be inflected to a radial direction inner side from a lower end portion of a channel outer tube portion ( 32 ), and is disposed apart from and opposing a flange portion ( 24 ) at an outer periphery side of a tube portion ( 22 ) of a dividing member ( 20 ). The floor portion ( 34 ) is disposed within the tube portion ( 22 ) in an axial direction S, that is, so as to overlap with the tube portion ( 22 ) when viewed from a radial direction. A diaphragm ( 50 ) in the form of an elastic film is adhered by vulcanization to a restriction channel member ( 30 ) so as to cover an aperture in a lower side of the restriction channel member ( 30 ). A seal portion ( 56 ) is vulcanization-formed integrally with the diaphragm ( 50 ), so as to cover an inner periphery face of a channel inner tube portion ( 36 ) of the restriction channel member ( 30 ).

Claims (23)

1. A vibration absorption device comprising:

a first mounting member that is coupled to one of a vibration generating portion or a vibration receiving portion;

a second mounting member that is tubular and is coupled to the other of the vibration generating portion or the vibration receiving portion;

an elastic body that is disposed between the first mounting member and the second mounting member and is coupled to both the mounting members;

a primary chamber constituted at an inner side of the second mounting member, the elastic body serving as a portion of a dividing wall of the primary chamber, and liquid being sealed in the primary chamber;

a secondary chamber in which liquid is sealed, at least a portion of a dividing wall of the secondary chamber being formed by a diaphragm, and the secondary chamber being capable of expanding and contracting;

a dividing member that divides the primary chamber from the secondary chamber, the dividing member including

a tubular tube portion,

a flange portion that is structured to extend to a radial direction outer side from a primary chamber side end of the tube portion, an outer periphery of the flange portion being disposed along an inner periphery of the second mounting member, and

a movable elastic film that is disposed at the radial direction inner side of the tube portion;

a restriction channel member that is an annular body separate from the dividing member, that is disposed between the tube portion of the dividing member and the second mounting member, that includes

a channel outer tube portion disposed along an inner periphery of the second mounting member and

a floor portion formed continuously with the channel outer tube portion, disposed opposing the flange portion, disposed between the tubular tube portion of the dividing member and the second mounting member, and disposed within the tube portion in a tube axial direction so as to overlap the tube portion in the radial direction,

and that structures a restriction channel between the dividing member and the restriction channel member, the restriction channel causing fluid communication between the primary chamber and the secondary chamber, and an outer periphery end of the diaphragm being adhered to at least an inner periphery of the floor portion; and

an elastic portion disposed between the second mounting member and the channel outer tube portion,

wherein a portion of the second mounting member adjacent the channel outer tube portion is formed by crimping inwardly in the radial direction compressing the elastic portion;

wherein the second mounting member reaches a position that intersects a radial line extending through the floor portion, wherein the radial line extends perpendicular to a central longitudinal axis of the tubular tube portion.

2. The vibration absorption device according to claim 1 , wherein the restriction channel member includes a channel inner tube portion that is formed continuously from the floor portion and is disposed along an outer periphery of the tube portion.

3. The vibration absorption device according to claim 2 , wherein the channel inner tube portion is extended toward the secondary chamber side from an inner end portion of the floor portion.

4. The vibration absorption device according to claim 1 , wherein the outer periphery end of the diaphragm is adhered to at least the inner periphery of the floor portion, an aperture in fluid communication with the secondary chamber is formed in a circumferential direction portion of the floor portion and, at a position corresponding with the aperture, the diaphragm is adhered to the restriction channel member at the radial direction outer side relative to the aperture.

5. The vibration absorption device according to claim 4 , wherein the diaphragm structures the secondary chamber at the radial direction inner side relative to the inner periphery end of the floor portion, and the diaphragm is protruded to the radial direction outer side at a fluid communication position corresponding with the aperture in the floor portion.

6. The vibration absorption device according to claim 5 , wherein the diaphragm is structured with a greater thickness at the fluid communication position than at other portions of the diaphragm that structure the secondary chamber.

7. The vibration absorption device according to claim 1 , wherein a retracted portion that is retracted to the radial direction inner side is structured at a circumferential direction portion of the tube portion of the dividing member, and the restriction channel and the secondary chamber are in fluid communication via an aperture portion that is opened from the restriction channel toward an outer face of the retracted portion.

Assignments (2)
ABSORPTION-TYPE COMPANY SPLIT Recorded Jun 24, 2022
From: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
To: PROSPIRA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060439/0890 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 16, 2011
From: SUGAWARA, HIDEKI; SOMEYA, KATSUMI; MAEDA, NAOKI; HATTORI, YUZO
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027403/0409 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-108315 · Apr 27, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120091642A1 · Apr 19, 2012