IP Library Granted Patent US 11,619,283
Granted Patent B2
US 11,619,283 · App. 16/644,538 · Granted Apr 4, 2023

Damper device

Inventors: Takuya Yoshikawa (Fukui, JP); Tomonori Kinoshita (Sabae, JP); Tetsuro Taniguchi (Fukui, JP); Akiyoshi Kato (Echizen, JP); Yoichi Oi (Ama, JP)
Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION; AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
F16F15/13469F16D3/12F16F15/1478F16H45/02F16H2045/0226F16H2045/0268
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Patent No.
US 11,619,283
App. No.
16/644,538
Granted
Apr 4, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A damper device including an input element and an output element; an elastic body transmitting torque between the input element and the output element; and a rotary inertia mass damper having a mass body. The rotary inertia mass damper includes a sun gear, a carrier rotatably supporting pinion gears, and a ring gear that meshes with the pinion gears and serving as the mass body. A pair of washers is located on both sides of each pinion gear axially. The ring gear includes an annulus gear having internal teeth meshing with the pinion gears and a weight body fixed to the annulus gear such that the weight body is in contact with a side surface of the annulus gear. An inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in a radial direction by a tip of the pinion gear or an outer circumferential surface of the washer.

Claims (47)

1. A damper device comprising:

a plurality of rotating elements including an input element to which torque from an engine is transmitted, and an output element;

an elastic body that transmits torque between the input element and the output element; and

a rotary inertia mass damper having a mass body that rotates in accordance with relative rotation between a first rotating element that is any of the plurality of rotating elements and a second rotating element that is different from the first rotating element, wherein

the rotary inertia mass damper has a planetary gear including a sun gear that rotates as a unit with the first rotating element, a carrier that rotatably supports a plurality of pinion gears and that rotates as a unit with the second rotating element, and a ring gear that meshes with the plurality of pinion gears and that serves as the mass body, and

at least one pair of washers is located on both sides of each the pinion gears in an axial direction,

the ring gear includes an annulus gear having a plurality of internal teeth that mesh with the plurality of pinion gears and a weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the weight body is in contact with a side surface of the annulus gear, and

an inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in a radial direction by a tip of the pinion gear or an outer circumferential surface of the washer.

2. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein

the ring gear includes a weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the weight body is in contact with one side surface of the annulus gear,

face widths of the annulus gear of the ring gear and the sun gear is less than a face width of the pinion gear, and

the annulus gear is located offset from the sun gear in the axial direction.

3. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein

the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the weight body.

4. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein

the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the washer, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with one side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

5. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein

around the pinion gear, a second washer is located so as to be abuttable with a side surface on an opposite side of the annulus gear from the weight body side or a side surface on an opposite side of the weight body from the annulus gear side,

the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the at least one pair of washers and the second washer.

6. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein

the cone body includes a first weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the first weight body is in contact with one side surface of the annulus gear and a second weight body that is fixed to the annulus gear such that the second weight body is in contact with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

7. The damper device according to claim 6 , wherein

an inner circumferential surface of the first cone body is supported in the radial direction by one of the one pair of washers,

an inner circumferential surface of the second cone body is supported in the radial direction by the other one of the one pair of washers, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the one side surface of the annulus gear and the other one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

8. The damper device according to claim 6 , wherein

inner circumferential surfaces of the first and second cone bodies are supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the one side surface of the annulus gear and the other one of the one pair of washers that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

9. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein the first rotating element is the output element, and the second rotating element is the input element.

10. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein

the rotating elements include an intermediate element,

the elastic body includes an input elastic body that transmits torque between the input element and the intermediate element, and an output elastic body that transmits torque between the intermediate element and the output element, and

the first rotating element is the intermediate element, and the second rotating element is the input element.

11. The damper device according to claim 1 , wherein the output element is operatively coupled to an input shaft of a transmission.

12. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein

the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with a side surface of the weight body.

13. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein

the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the washer, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the washer that is abuttable with one side surface of the annulus gear and the washer that is abuttable with the other side surface of the annulus gear.

14. The damper device according to claim 2 , wherein

around the pinion gear, a second washer is located so as to be abuttable with a side surface on an opposite side of the annulus gear from the weight body side or a side surface on an opposite side of the weight body from the annulus gear side,

the inner circumferential surface of the weight body is supported in the radial direction by the tip of the pinion gear, and

movement of the ring gear in the axial direction is restricted by the at least one pair of washers and the second washer.

Assignments (2)
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 28, 2021
From: AISIN AW CO., LTD.; AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: AISIN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058595/0043 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2020
From: YOSHIKAWA, TAKUYA; KINOSHITA, TOMONORI; TANIGUCHI, TETSURO; KATO, AKIYOSHI; OI, YOICHI
To: AISIN AW CO., LTD.; AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 052497/0647 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-219521 · Nov 14, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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