Damper device

• US 10,458,169 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2017
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piolax Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Piolax Incorporated
• Inventors: Kato, Kouichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, William L
• Application Number:
  US16/071,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20190032388A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 16342, 16 82, 16 86 R, 16 86 A, 16 86 B, 296 2434, 296 3712, 267136, 267141, 224483
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/06 mounted on or below dashboards
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 3/16 with friction brakes
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/00 Braking devices, e.g. checks; Stops; Buffers construction of pneumatic or liquid braking devices E05F3/00; braking devices, buffers or end stops on drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture A47B88/473; combined with devices for holding wings open E05C17/00; devices for limiting opening of wings or for holding wings open by a movable member extending between frame and wing E05C17/04
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/02 specially for preventing the slamming of swinging wings during final closing movement, e.g. jamb stops
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 1/377 having holes or openings F16F1/37 , F16F1/387 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 7/00 Vibration-dampers; Shock-absorbers using fluid F16F5/00, F16F9/00; specific for rotary systems F16F15/10 ; belt tensioners F16H7/12
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 7/087 Elastomeric surface effect dampers

Abstract

A damper device provided between a fixed body having an opening portion and an openable and closable body mounted on the opening portion and configured to apply a braking force to the openable and closable body. An elastic resin member is mounted on a projecting portion provided on the openable and closable body. A receiving recess portion is provided on the fixed body to receive the elastic resin member. The elastic resin member has a base portion; a pair of arm portions; a bridge portion; and a stopper, which are formed integrally. The receiving recess portion has: an introducing portion configured to abut with the arm portions to bend them diametrically towards each other; and a restricting portion configured to abut with the stopper to restrict the openable and closable body from opening, when the openable and closable body opens to cause the elastic resin member to move.

Claims

1. A damper device provided between a fixed body having an opening portion and an openable and closable body mounted on the opening portion of the fixed body so as to be opened and closed and configured to apply a braking force to the openable and closable body when the openable and closable body is opened and closed relative to the opening portion, the damper device having:

an elastic resin member mounted on a projecting portion provided on the openable and closable body; and

a receiving recess portion provided on the fixed body to receive the elastic resin member movably,

wherein the elastic resin member includes;

a base portion having a fitting portion in which the projecting portion fits;

a pair of arm portions extending from an outer circumference of the base portion and capable of deforming elastically;

a bridge portion coupling together distal end portions of the pair of arm portions directly or via the base portion and configured to deform elastically as the pair of arm portions deforms elastically; and

a stopper configured to be brought into abutment with the receiving recess portion to restrict the openable and closable body from opening when the openable and closable body opens,

wherein the base portion, the pair of arm portions, the bridge portion and the stopper are formed integrally, and

wherein the receiving recess portion includes;

an introducing portion configured to come into abutment with the pair of arm portions to bend the pair of arm portions diametrically towards each other; and

a restricting portion configured to come into abutment with the stopper to restrict the openable and closable body from opening, the introducing portion and the restricting portion so functioning when the openable and closable body opens to cause the elastic resin member to move.

2. The damper device according to claim 1, wherein the bridge portion includes the stopper.

3. The damper device according to claim 2, wherein the receiving recess portion includes a holding portion configured to hold the pair of arm portions in a diametrically bent state in which the pair of arm portions are bent diametrically towards each other when the stopper comes into abutment with the restricting portion.

4. The damper device according to claim 3,

wherein a projection is provided on inner surfaces of the pair of arm portions so as to project therefrom, and

wherein the projection comes into abutment with an outer circumferential surface of the base portion when the stopper comes into abutment with the restricting portion of the receiving recess portion and the pair of arm portions are held in the diametrically bent state by the holding portion.

5. The damper device according to claim 3, wherein the holding portion includes contact surfaces configured to be brought into surface contact with outer surfaces of the pair of arm portions when the stopper comes into abutment with the restricting portion of the receiving recess portion.

6. The damper device according to claim 5, wherein the pair of arm portions are held between the contact surfaces of the holding portion and the outer circumferential surfaces of the base portion when the stopper comes into abutment with the restricting portion of the receiving recess portion.

7. The damper device according to claim 2,

wherein the receiving recess portion includes a holding portion configured to hold the pair of arm portions in a diametrically bent state in which the pair of arm portions are bent diametrically towards each other when the stopper comes into abutment with the restricting portion, and

wherein the pair of arm portions extend from outer circumferential surfaces on both sides of the base portion towards an opening direction of the openable and closable body relative to the opening portion via slits defined between the base portion and the pair of arm portions.

8. The damper device according to claim 7, wherein the pair of arm portions extend in a direction in which the pair of arm portions move away from each other while extending towards the opening direction of the openable and closable body.

9. The damper device according to claim 2,

wherein the bridge portion includes a pair of inclined portions extending from distal end portions of the pair of arm portions in their extending direction towards the opening direction of the openable and closable body so as to move towards each other, the distal end portions being coupled to each other, and

wherein with the openable and closable body opened relative to the opening portion, the pair of inclined portions come into abutment with each other, and the base portion is allowed to come into abutment with the pair of inclined portions.

10. The damper device according to claim 2,

wherein the bridge portion includes a pair of inclined portions extending from distal end portions of the pair of arm portions in their extending direction towards the opening direction of the openable and closable body so as to move towards each other, the distal end portions being coupled to each other,

wherein the receiving recess portion includes a holding portion configured to hold the pair of arm portions in a diametrically bent state in which the pair of arm portions are bent diametrically towards each other when the stopper comes into abutment with the restricting portion, and

wherein a first restricting projecting portion is provided on the openable and closable body, the first restricting projecting portion projecting towards an interior of the receiving recess portion and being disposed on outer sides of the pair of inclined portions, and the first restricting projecting portion enters an interior of the holding portion but is prevented from coming into abutment with the restricting portion when the openable and closable body opens.

11. The damper device according to claim 10, wherein a second restricting projecting portion is provided on the openable and closable body, the second restricting projecting portion projecting towards the interior of the receiving recess portion and being disposed on an outer side of a coupling portion via which the pair of arm portions are coupled to the base portion which is positioned towards a closing direction of the openable and closable body.

12. The damper device according to claim 11, wherein projecting heights of the first restricting projecting portion and the second restricting projecting Portion into the interior of the receiving recess portion are greater than a projecting height of the projecting portion into the interior of the receiving recess portion.

13. The damper device according to claim 1, wherein the base portion includes the stopper.

14. The damper device according to claim 13, wherein when the openable and closable body is closed, the bridge portion of the elastic resin member comes into abutment with an end portion of an inner circumference of the receiving recess portion which is positioned opposite to the restricting portion to deform elastically.

15. The damper device according to claim 13, wherein the base portion and the bridge portion of the elastic resin member are coupled to each other by a coupling portion extending from an inner circumference of the bridge portion towards the base portion.