IP Library Granted Patent US 11,548,341
Granted Patent B2
US 11,548,341 · App. 17/292,198 · Granted Jan 10, 2023

Strut mount

Inventors: Kazutaka Otsu (Tokyo, JP); Musashi Hashimoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Prospira Corporation
B60G11/16F16F1/38F16F9/54B60G2204/143
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Patent No.
US 11,548,341
App. No.
17/292,198
Granted
Jan 10, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A strut mount includes an inner member, an outer member, and a body rubber. A stopper rubber which protrudes outward in an axial direction is disposed on the body rubber. The outer member includes a supporting portion which covers the stopper rubber from outside thereof in the axial direction. The stopper rubber includes a pedestal protrusion portion which protrudes outward in the axial direction from the inner member and a tip protrusion portion which protrudes outward in the axial direction from the pedestal protrusion portion, contacts the supporting portion, and has an elasticity in the axial direction lower than that of the pedestal protrusion portion. The pedestal protrusion portion and the tip protrusion portion taper outward in the axial direction.

Claims (22)

1. A strut mount comprising:

an annular inner member into which an upper end portion of a rod of a shock absorber is inserted and fixed;

an outer member that surrounds the inner member in a circumferential direction around a center axis of the inner member and is attached to a vehicle body; and

a body rubber which is disposed between the inner member and the outer member and supports the inner member and the outer member such that the inner and outer members are elastically shiftable relative to each other,

wherein a stopper rubber which protrudes outward in an axial direction along the center axis is disposed on the body rubber,

wherein the outer member includes a supporting portion which covers the stopper rubber from outside thereof in the axial direction,

wherein the stopper rubber includes

a pedestal protrusion portion which protrudes outward in the axial direction from the inner member and

a tip protrusion portion which protrudes outward in the axial direction from the pedestal protrusion portion, contacts the supporting portion, and has an elasticity in the axial direction lower than that of the pedestal protrusion portion,

wherein the pedestal protrusion portion and the tip protrusion portion taper outward in the axial direction,

wherein the pedestal protrusion portion includes

an inner surface which is located at an inner end portion in a radial direction of the pedestal protrusion portion and extends outward in the axial direction from the inner member, and

an outer surface which extends inward in the axial direction and outward in the radial direction from an outer end portion in the axial direction of the inner surface,

wherein a tilt angle of the outer surface that is an angle of an acute angle formed by the outer surface with respect to a horizontal line orthogonal to the center axis is less than a tilt angle of the inner surface that is an angle of an acute angle formed by the inner surface with respect to the horizontal line, thereby a top portion of the pedestal protrusion portion which tapers outward in the axial direction and through which the inner surface and the outer surface are connected to each other facing inward in the radial direction, and

wherein the tip protrusion portion is disposed on the outer surface, thereby a top portion of the tip protrusion portion which tapers outward in the axial direction facing outward in the radial direction.

2. The strut mount according to claim 1 ,

wherein the pedestal protrusion portion extends in the circumferential direction, and

wherein the tip protrusion portion is disposed at each of both end portions of the pedestal protrusion portion in the circumferential direction.

3. The strut mount according to claim 1 ,

wherein the pedestal protrusion portion extends in the circumferential direction, and

wherein an intermediate portion in the circumferential direction of the pedestal protrusion portion is provided with a recess portion which is depressed inward in the axial direction and penetrates the intermediate portion in the radial direction.

4. The strut mount according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of the tip protrusion portions are provided at intervals in the circumferential direction and are disposed on portions of the outer surface located outside in the radial direction of an inner end portion in the radial direction of the outer surface.

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 May 7, 2021
From: OTSU, KAZUTAKA; HASHIMOTO, MUSASHI
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 056173/0240 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-227632 · Dec 4, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210387493A1 · Dec 16, 2021
Cited By (1)
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