Suspension support
AssigneeToyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorYasukuni Wakita
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Abstract
The present invention is intended to reduce the weight of the suspension support without increasing its production cost. An inner and outer cylinders (1), (2) are made of aluminum. Out of the upper and lower inner circumferential flanges (6), (7) which hold vertically a rubber elastomer (3) in between, one flange is formed on an open condition when the outer cylinder (2) is forged, and after inserting the rubber elastomer (3) from the opening (11) a circumferential edge of the opening (11) is inwardly folded to form the inner circumferential flanges (6), (7), thus completing a product.
Claims9
A suspension support for supporting a buffer for a vehicle body, comprising:
- an inner cylinder having an outward flange;
- an outer cylinder adapted to be attached to a vehicle body, said outer cylinder having an upper inward flange, a lower inward flange, a side wall, and an outward flange, said outer cylinder being a molded single piece, one of said upper inward flange or said lower inward flange being formed by bending, said side wall being slanted inward by the bending of said upper or lower inward flange;
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- a rubber elastomer interposed and pressed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder and between the upper inward flange and the lower inward flange, said
- a rubber elastomer interposed and pressed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder and between the upper inward flange and the lower inward flange, said rubber elastomer having an upper surface and a lower surface at least one of which is a convex surface, said convex surface being compressed by the upper or lower inward flange of the outer cylinder which is formed by bending, said rubber elastomer having a side face pressed by the side wall of the outer cylinder by the bending of the upper or lower inward flange.
A method of producing a suspension support for supporting a buffer for a vehicle body, comprising:
- forming an inner cylinder having an outward flange;
- integrating a rubber elastomer with the inner cylinder around the outward flange of the inner cylinder, said rubber elastomer having an upper surface and a lower surface at least one of which is a convex surface;
- forming, as a single piece by molding, an outer cylinder adapted to be attached to a vehicle body, said outer cylinder having a first inward flange at one end, a side wall, and an outward flange, said outer cylinder having an extended wall at the other end;
- placing the rubber elastomer with the inner cylinder inside the outer cylinder through the other end of the outer cylinder to interpose the rubber elastomer between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder;
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- inwardly bending the extended wall of the outer cylinder to form a second inward flange, thereby restraining the rubber elastomer between the first inward flange and the second inward flange, wherein the convex surface of the rubber elastomer is compressed by the extended wall by bending, and a side face of the rubber elastomer is pressed by the side wall of the outer cylinder by the bending of the extended wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.