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US 9,435,395 B2Granted
Liquid-filled vibration isolating device
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorTatsuya Tsutsumi
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Abstract
In a liquid-filled vibration isolating device according to a first aspect of the present invention, at least one of a membrane support (11) and a membrane retainer (12) has a through hole (14) partitioned into a plurality of windows by one or more beams (15) each having a curved or deflected shape in a plane perpendicular to the thickness direction of a partition member (9).
Claims7
A liquid-filled vibration isolating device, comprising:
- a core member to be connected to one of a vibration generating body and a vibration transmitting body;
- a cylindrical member to be connected to the other body;
- an elastic member connecting the cylindrical member at one end thereof to the outer periphery of the core member in a fluid-tight manner;
- a diaphragm attached to the other end of the cylindrical member in a fluid-tight manner;
- a fluid chamber configured as a space defined inside the diaphragm, the space being filled with an incompressible liquid;
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- a partition member partitioning the fluid chamber into a primary liquid chamber on the core member side and a secondary liquid chamber on the diaphragm side,
- the partition member having a membrane, a membrane support supporting the membrane, a membrane retainer for restricting, in cooperation with the membrane support, a deformation amount or a displacement amount of the membrane, and a limit passage communicating the primary liquid chamber with the secondary liquid chamber,
- the membrane support and the membrane retainer each having a through hole penetrating therethrough in a direction toward the primary and secondary liquid chambers, respectively,
- wherein at least one of the membrane support and the membrane retainer has the through hole in which three or more beams extending inside the through hole are arranged, and the beams are each extended in an extending direction from the hole edge of the through hole while avoiding the center of the through hole such that and connected to the intermediate portion of the other beam adjacent thereto, so that the through hole is sectioned into a plurality of windows,
- wherein the beams are components of and integral with at least one of the membrane support and the membrane retainer, and the beams are not part of the membrane,
- wherein an imaginary vector extends along a longitudinal axis of each beam in the extending direction, and the imaginary vector of each beam does not pass through the center of the through hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.