Damped hinge for pieces of furniture

Hinge for mounting a door on a piece of furniture or the like, comprising:

• a hinge arm having a first and a second side walls, the hinge arm being fixable to a fixed part or to a door of the piece of furniture;
• a box fixable to the door or to the fixed part of the piece of furniture and connected to the hinge arm by an articulation system comprising a plurality of movable connecting levers and seven articulation axes;
• spring means acting in a closing direction of the hinge;
• and
• a damping device having an actuation member linearly movable according to a longitudinal axis,
• wherein said damping device is at least partially enclosed between said side walls of the hinge arm,
• wherein the actuation member of said damping device extends at a front end of the hinge arm facing the hinge box for contacting a thrust element of one of said movable connecting levers of the articulation system or integral with one of said movable connecting levers or with said hinge box at least in a range near a closing position of the hinge,
• wherein the hinge arm comprises a housing seat for said damping device, open at least at the front end of the same arm, the damping device being fitted in said housing seat, in which said housing seat is conformed as a cavity made in an intermediate wall between said side walls of said hinge arm, wherein the damping device has a housing body conformed to be arranged and fixed in said housing seat in a removable way, and
• wherein the housing body has a plurality of elastic hooking elements conformed and arranged for snap hooking in corresponding openings in the housing seat in the hinge arm.