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Granted Patent B2
US 12,152,648 · App. 17/420,243 · Granted Nov 26, 2024

Cushioning rubber, reaction force adjusting method thereof, and pedestal

Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimooka (Kumamoto, JP); Masaya Otsuka (Kumamoto, JP); Kodai Tsujino (Kumamoto, JP)
Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 12,152,648
App. No.
17/420,243
Granted
Nov 26, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sheet-shaped cushioning rubber including a planar base portion and a three-dimensional portion formed to rise from the base portion toward one side in a sheet thickness direction, the planar base portion and the three-dimensional portion being alternately provided in one direction of a sheet plane, wherein the three-dimensional portion includes a hollow portion that opens toward the other side in the sheet thickness direction. The three-dimensional portion is integrally provided with a first rising surface that is continuous from the base portion, a top surface, a second rising surface on a side opposite to the first rising surface, and a pair of rising surfaces on both sides in a sheet width direction, and the hollow portion opens only toward the other side in the sheet thickness direction.

Claims (12)

1. A sheet-shaped cushioning rubber, comprising: a base portion that is planar and a three-dimensional portion formed to rise from the base portion toward one side in a sheet thickness direction, the base portion and the three-dimensional portion being alternately provided in one direction of a sheet plane, wherein: the three-dimensional portion includes a hollow portion that opens toward another side in the sheet thickness direction such that an opening region of the hollow portion is defined at a bottom surface of the base portion, and wherein the base portion does not cover the opening region, the three-dimensional portion is integrally provided with a first rising surface that is continuous from the base portion, a top surface, a second rising surface on a side opposite to the first rising surface, and a pair of side rising surfaces on both sides in a sheet width direction, wherein, above the base portion, the first rising surface, the top surface, the second rising surface, and pair of side rising surfaces form a continuously closed surface of three-dimensional portion, and the hollow portion opens only toward the otherside in the sheet thickness direction, and a reinforcing rib that is connected to the three-dimensional portion and inhibits falling over of the three-dimensional portion is integrally provided on a plane of the base portion.

2. A method of adjusting a magnitude of a reaction force generated in the cushioning rubber according to claim 1 , the method comprising:

adjusting the magnitude of the reaction force generated in the cushioning rubber by selecting, at a time the cushioning rubber is manufactured, any of:

forming each of the side rising surfaces at a right angle with respect to the base portion and providing a right-angled corner between each of the side rising surfaces and the top surface;

forming each of the side rising surfaces at a right angle with respect to the base portion and providing a rounded portion having an arc-shaped cross-section between each of the side rising surfaces and the top surface; and

forming each of the side rising surfaces obliquely with a predetermined inclination angle with respect to an imaginary plane perpendicular to the base portion.

3. A sheet-shaped cushioning rubber, comprising: a base portion that is planar and a three-dimensional portion formed to rise from the base portion toward one side in a sheet thickness direction, the base portion and the three-dimensional portion being alternately provided in one direction of a sheet plane, wherein: the three-dimensional portion includes a hollow portion that opens toward another side in the sheet thickness direction such that an opening region of the hollow portion is defined at a bottom surface of the base portion, and wherein the base portion does not cover the opening region, the three-dimensional portion is integrally provided with a first rising surface that is continuous from the base portion, a top surface, a second rising surface on a side opposite to the first rising surface, and a pair of side rising surfaces on both sides in a sheet width direction, wherein, above the base portion, the first rising surface, the top surface, the second rising surface, and pair of side rising surfaces form a continuously closed surface of three-dimensional portion, and the hollow portion opens only toward the other side in the sheet thickness direction, and a protrusion used as a mounting margin for the cushioning rubber is integrally provided to protrude in the width direction from an end portion of the cushioning rubber in the width direction.

4. A method of adjusting a magnitude of a reaction force generated in the cushioning rubber according to claim 3 , the method comprising:

adjusting the magnitude of the reaction force generated in the cushioning rubber by selecting, at a time the cushioning rubber is manufactured, any of:

forming each of the side rising surfaces at a right angle with respect to the base portion and providing a right-angled corner between each of the side rising surfaces and the top surface;

forming each of the side rising surfaces at a right angle with respect to the base portion and providing a rounded portion having an arc-shaped cross-section between each of the side rising surfaces and the top surface; and

forming each of the side rising surfaces obliquely with a predetermined inclination angle with respect to an imaginary plane perpendicular to the base portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2021
From: SHIMOOKA, HIROYUKI; OTSUKA, MASAYA; TSUJINO, KODAI
To: NOK CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (2)
JP 2019-025397 · Feb 15, 2019 · national
JP 2019-165310 · Sep 11, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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