DAMPING STRUCTURE

• US 20120024646A1
• Filed: 04/09/2010
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Original Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Inventors: Tsugihashi, Kazuki, Sugimoto, Akio, Yamaguchi, Zenzo, Masuda, Kyoko, Yano, Yoshio
• Application Number:
  US13/138,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20120024646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 188/268
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 15/363 using rolling bodies, e.g. balls free to move in a circumferential direction
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 7/015 the particles being spherical, cylindrical or the like

Abstract

The present invention provides a damping structure capable of obtaining a sufficient damping effect even against vibrations with small amplitudes, by promoting movements of powder/particle materials in a hollow body. In the damping structure of the invention, a damping member 2 is provided on a structure 1 to be damped. The damping member 2 is composed of a hollow body 5, a powder/particle material 3 which is filled in the hollow body 5 with partially leaving a space 4, and moves inside the hollow body 5 when the structure 1 vibrates, and a vibrator 6 which is mounted inside the hollow body 5, and relatively vibrates with respect to the hollow body 5. The vibrator 6 exerts a force by coming into contact with the powder/particle material, when vibrating.

Claims

1. A damping structure comprising a damping member which is provided on a structure to be damped, wherein the damping member is composed of:

a hollow body;

a powder/particle material which is filled in the hollow body with partially leaving a space, and moves inside the hollow body when the structure to be damped vibrates; and

a vibrator which is mounted to the hollow body, and relatively vibrates with respect to the hollow body to come into contact with the powder/particle material to exert a force when the structure to be damped vibrates.

2. The damping structure according to claim 1, wherein the vibrator vibrates with larger amplitude than the hollow body or in a different phase.

3. The damping structure according to claim 1, wherein the vibrator is mounted to the hollow body so that a vibration direction of the vibrator is different from a vibration direction of the structure.

4. The damping structure according to claim 1, wherein the vibrator is mounted to the hollow body so that a shape or mass distribution of the vibrator is unsymmetrical with respect to an axis which passes a point where the vibrator is mounted to the hollow body and is in parallel with the vibration direction of the structure to be damped.

5. The damping structure according to claim 1, wherein an inner wall face of the hollow body is formed in an inclined state with respect to the vibration direction of the structure to be damped.

6. The damping structure according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the vibrators are provided in the hollow body, and the plurality of the vibrators are constructed so as to vibrate with different amplitudes, respectively, when the structure to be damped vibrates.

7. The damping structure according to claim 1, wherein the vibrator is provided by passing loosely thorough the hollow body so that at least one end of the vibrator is protruded from the hollow body to an exterior.

8. The damping structure according to claim 2, wherein the vibrator is mounted to the hollow body so that a vibration direction of the vibrator is different from a vibration direction of the structure.