Torque rod
AssigneeSumitomo Riko Company Limited
InventorsShingo TANAKA, Takashi HAYASHI
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Abstract
A torque rod including: a rod member; and a rubber bushing provided at a lengthwise end of the rod member, wherein the rubber bushing includes an inner axial member, an outer tubular member, and a rubber elastic body connecting the inner axial member and the outer tubular member with each other, the lengthwise end of the rod member is fixed to the inner axial member of the rubber bushing constituted by a part separate from the rod member, and a stopper to limit a relative displacement amount of the inner axial member and the outer tubular member in the rubber bushing is constituted in contact sections of the rod member and the outer tubular member.
Claims11
A torque rod comprising:
- a rod member;
- and
- a rubber bushing provided at a lengthwise end of the rod member, wherein
- the rubber bushing includes an inner axial member, an outer tubular member, and a rubber elastic body connecting the inner axial member and the outer tubular member with each other,
- the lengthwise end of the rod member is fixed to the inner axial member of the rubber bushing constituted by a part separate from the rod member, and
- a stopper to limit a relative displacement amount of the inner axial member and the outer tubular member in the rubber bushing is constituted in contact sections of the rod member and the outer tubular member.
The torque rod according to claim I, wherein
- the torque rod has another rubber bushing with a different outer dimension from an outer dimension of the rubber bushing, at another lengthwise end of the rod member,
- the outer dimension of the rubber bushing is larger than the outer dimension of the other rubber bushing, and
- the lengthwise end of the rod member is fixed to the inner axial member of the rubber bushing, and the stopper is constituted in the contact sections of the rod member and the outer tubular member of the rubber bushing.
A rod member configured to be attached to a rubber bushing including an inner axial member, an outer tubular member, and a rubber elastic body connecting the inner axial member and the outer tubular member with each other such that the rod member constitutes a torque rod, the rod member for the torque rod comprising, at one lengthwise end thereof:
- a fixture to the inner axial member of the rubber bushing;
- and
- a contact section constituting a stopper to limit a relative displacement amount of the inner axial member and the outer tubular member of the rubber bushing by contact of the contact section on the outer tubular member of the rubber bushing.
A rubber bushing configured to be mounted at a lengthwise end of a rod member such that the rubber bushing constitutes a torque rod, the rubber bushing comprising:
- an inner axial member;
- an outer tubular member;
- a rubber elastic body connecting the inner axial member and the outer tubular member with each other;
- a fixture configured to receive the lengthwise end of the rod member, the fixture being provided in the inner axial member;
- and
- a contact section constituting a stopper to limit a relative displacement amount of the inner axial member and the outer tubular member by contact of the contact section on the rod member, the contact section being provided in the outer tubular member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.