Vehicle body damper brace
AssigneeSumitomo Riko Company Limited
InventorsMunehiro Wada, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Takashi Kume
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Abstract
A vehicle body damper brace including: a rod member having an elongated shape; a housing including a tubular part arranged externally about the rod member; an elastic connector including a first connection body comprising a viscoelastic material, the elastic connector elastically connecting the rod member and the housing to each other in an axis-perpendicular direction; and a regulator provided on at least one axial side of the first connection body and separately from the elastic connector, the regulator suppressing an amount of relative displacement between the rod member and the housing in a prizing direction.
Claims10
A vehicle body damper brace comprising:
- a rod member having an elongated shape in an axial direction;
- a housing including a tubular part arranged externally about the rod member;
- an elastic connector including a first connection body comprising a viscoelastic material, the elastic connector elastically connecting the rod member and the housing to each other in an axis-perpendicular direction;
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- a regulator provided on at least one axial side of the first connection body and separately from the elastic connector, the regulator suppressing an amount of relative displacement between the rod member and the housing in a prizing direction, wherein
- a first mounting part is provided to the rod member and a second mounting part is provided to the housing, the first and second mounting members being configured to attach to the vehicle body at respective positions on opposite sides of the elastic connector in the axial direction such that a load in the axial direction is primarily input to the rod member and the housing, and
- wherein the regulator has a structure in which an inner attachment member attached to a rod member side and an outer attachment member attached to a housing side are elastically connected by a second connection body comprising a viscoelastic material.
A vehicle body damper brace comprising:
- a rod member having an elongated shape;
- a housing including a tubular part arranged externally about the rod member;
- an elastic connector including a first connection body comprising a viscoelastic material, the elastic connector elastically connecting the rod member and the housing to each other in an axis-perpendicular direction;
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- a regulator provided on at least one axial side of the first connection body and separately from the elastic connector, the regulator suppressing an amount of relative displacement between the rod member and the housing in a prizing direction, and the regulator having a structure in which an inner attachment member attached to a rod member side and an outer attachment member attached to a housing side are elastically connected by a second connection body comprising a viscoelastic material,
- a first flanged part projecting radially outward and provided in a side of the rod member;
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- a second flanged part projecting radially inward provided in the outer attachment member, wherein
- a buffer body made of a viscoelastic material is interposed between axially opposed faces of the first flanged part and the second flanged part, and
- the outer attachment member extends in a circumferential direction with a U-shaped cross section opening radially inward, and at least one of a pair of side walls of the outer attachment member comprises the second flanged part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.