Vibration damper
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeiji YOEDA, Hiroyuki AMANO, Shingo OKAYA
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Abstract
A vibration damper that damp vibrations transmitted between a drive unit and a support body. The vibration damper comprises: an elastic member interposed between the drive unit and the support body; a rotor supported by the drive unit or the support body; and a vibration translating mechanism that rotates the rotor and reciprocates the rotor between the drive unit and the support body, in response to the vibrations acting in a vibrating direction to isolate the drive unit and the support body away from each other and bring the drive unit and the support body closer together.
Claims17
A vibration damper that damps vibrations transmitted between a drive unit that vibrates during power generation and a support body that supports the drive unit, comprising:
- an elastic member that is interposed between the drive unit and the support body;
- a rotary inertial mass that is supported by one of the drive unit and the support body in a rotatable manner to damp the vibrations;
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- a vibration translating mechanism that rotates the rotary inertial mass and reciprocates the rotary inertial mass between the drive unit and the support body, in response to the vibrations acting in a vibrating direction to isolate the drive unit and the support body away from each other and bring the drive unit and the support body closer together.
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