Damper mount
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuho Ito, Toshio Inoue
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Abstract
Provided is a damper mount (1, 101, 201) configured to be interposed between a damper (11) of a wheel suspension device and a vehicle body (9). The damper mount includes: an annular outer member (22) fixed to the vehicle body; an annular inner member (21) fixed to the damper, one of the outer member and the inner member being received in another of the outer member and the inner member; a first magneto-elastic member (24) radially interposed between the inner member and the outer member; and a coil (25) configured to apply a magnetic flux to the first magneto-elastic member.
Claims7
A damper mount configured to be interposed between a damper of a wheel suspension device and a vehicle body, comprising:
- an annular outer member configured to be fixed to the vehicle body;
- an annular inner member configured to be fixed to the damper, one of the outer member and the inner member being received in another of the outer member and the inner member;
- a first magneto-elastic member radially interposed between the inner member and the outer member;
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- a coil configured to apply a magnetic flux to the first magneto-elastic member,
- wherein the inner member includes a tubular portion configured to receive a bolt of the damper therein and a pair of radial flanges extending radially from the tubular portion in an axially spaced apart relationship, the first magneto-elastic member consisting of two parts each radially interposed between an outer peripheral part of a corresponding one of the flanges and an opposing inner circumferential surface of the outer member, and wherein the coil is wound around a part of the tubular portion located axially between the flanges, the inner member and the outer member being made of high magnetic permeability material,
- the damper mount further comprising a support member fixedly connected to the vehicle body and axially opposing the flanges, and a second magneto-elastic member axially interposed between the support member and the opposing flange.
A damper mount configured to be interposed between a damper of a wheel suspension device and a vehicle body, comprising:
- an annular outer member configured to be fixed to the vehicle body;
- an annular inner member configured to be fixed to the damper, one of the outer member and the inner member being received in another of the outer member and the inner member;
- a first magneto-elastic member radially interposed between the inner member and the outer member;
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- a coil configured to apply a magnetic flux to the first magneto-elastic member,
- wherein the inner member includes a tubular portion configured to receive a bolt of the damper therein and a pair of radial flanges extending radially from the tubular portion in an axially spaced apart relationship, the first magneto-elastic member consisting of two parts each radially interposed between an outer peripheral part of a corresponding one of the flanges and an opposing inner circumferential surface of the outer member, and wherein the coil is wound around a part of the tubular portion located axially between the flanges, the inner member and the outer member being made of high magnetic permeability material,
- wherein an outer peripheral part of each flange of the inner member is enlarged in an axial direction away from the other flange so as to define an enlarged outer circumferential surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.