US 11,535,076 B2Granted

Damper mount attachment structure and damper mount

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsTomoaki Kubota, Yasufumi Nakajima, Takashi Okazaki

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Abstract

A damper mount structure improves accuracy of positioning to increase assembling efficiency and includes a damper mount for fixing an upper portion of a suspension device to an attachment opening formed in a vehicle body. The damper mount includes: a housing to be mounted on the upper portion of the suspension device; a stay which protrudes from an outer circumferential surface of the housing and is brought in contact with a lower surface of a circumferential edge of the attachment opening in a state that the housing has been inserted through the attachment opening to attach the housing to the circumferential edge of the attachment opening; and a plurality of ribs which connect the stay with an outer circumferential surface of the housing. A first rib, a second rib, and a third rib include side surfaces, respectively, facing an inner circumferential surface of the attachment opening.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A damper mount attachment structure comprising a damper mount for fixing an upper portion of a suspension to an attachment opening formed in a vehicle body;

wherein the damper mount includes:
a base to be mounted on the upper portion of the suspension;
an attachment portion which protrudes from an outer circumferential surface of the base and is brought in contact with a lower surface of a circumferential edge of the attachment opening in a state that the base has been inserted through the attachment opening to attach the base to the circumferential edge of the attachment opening;
and
a rib which extends between and continuously connects the attachment portion and an outer circumferential surface of the base,
wherein the rib includes a side surface facing an inner circumferential surface of the attachment opening, and
wherein a flat contact surface and a recess formed by recessing the flat contact surface downward therefrom are formed on an upper surface of the attachment portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/289,482Filed 19 Sep 2019
Priority: JP JP2018-20421230 Oct 2018
Published: US 2021/0387494 A116 Dec 2021
Granted: 27 Dec 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B60G 15/067
And fluid damper: characterised by the mounting on the vehicle body or chassis of the spring and damper unit
B60G 13/003
Arrangements for attachment of dampers: characterised by the mounting on the vehicle body or chassis of the damper unit
B60G 15/068
Characterised by the mounting on the vehicle body or chassis of the spring and damper unit: specially adapted for MacPherson strut-type suspension
F16F 9/32
Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium: details