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US 6,913,252 B2Granted
Damper device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Strawberry Corporation
InventorYoshitaka Hayashi
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Abstract
A damper device includes a shaft 2 inserted relatively rotatably into an axial hole 1a provided in a bearing portion 1. A high flexible resin portion 3 is provided between an outer circumferential surface of the shaft 2 and an inner surface of the axial hole 1a. A recess portion 4, with which the high flexible resin portion 3 contacts, and into which the high flexible resin portion 3 bites by relative rotation of the shaft 2 to the bearing portion 1, is provided in either one or both of the inner surface of the axial hole 1a and the outer circumferential surface of the shaft 2.
Claims3
A damper device comprising:
- a bearing portion with an axial hole;
- a shaft inserted relatively rotatably into said axial hole, said shaft having two large diameter portions and;
- a small diameter portion located in an axial direction of said shaft between two large diameter portions;
- a flexible resin portion provided between an outer circumferential surface of said shaft and an inner surface of said axial hole, said flexible resin portion fitted onto and contacting said small diameter portion of said shaft and positioned between said large diameter portions of said shaft;
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- a recess groove provided in said small diameter portion of said shaft, said recess groove extending along the axial direction in said outer circumferential surface of said shaft,
- wherein, upon relative rotation between said shaft and said bearing portion, said flexible resin portion bites into said recess groove, whereby dampening effect due to contact resistance between said shaft and flexible resin portion is generated.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.