URGING DEVICE

• US 20130219795A1
• Filed: 10/08/2010
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nifco Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Nifco Incorporated
• Inventors: Fukumoto, Mitsuru
• Granted Patent: US 8,807,622 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/386
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/06 mounted on or below dashboards
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/1016 with a canted-coil torsion spring
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 1/12 Attachments or mountings F16F1/041, F16F13/02 take precedence; of combinations of vibration damper and mechanical spring for vehicle suspension units B60G15/02

Abstract

An urging device is interposed between a first member and a second member. The urging device includes a supporting base formed on the first member, an abutting body including turning axes supported rotatably on the supporting base, and elastically contacting the second member, and an elastic member held in the abutting body and urging the abutting body by one end thereof in an elastically contacting direction. The supporting base includes bearing portions supporting the turning axes, and a locking portion locking the other end of the elastic member.

Claims

1. An urging device adapted to be interposed between a first member and a second member, comprising:

a supporting base adapted to be formed on the first member;

an abutting body including turning axes supported rotatably on the supporting base, and adapted to elastically contact the second member; and

an elastic member held in the abutting body and urging the abutting body by one end thereof in an elastically contacting direction,

wherein the supporting base includes bearing portions supporting the turning axes, and a locking portion locking the other end of the elastic member.

2. An urging device according to claim 1, wherein the hearing portions include axis holes to attach the turning axes, one portion of an outer periphery thereof bring open to be capable of inserting the turning axis.

3. An urging device according to claim 2, wherein the elastic member is a torsion coil spring.

4. An urging device according to claim 3, wherein the abutting body includes a pair of supporting walls supporting two ends of a coil portion of the torsion coil spring, and

wherein in the supporting walls, spring supporting axes inserted into both ends of the coil portion of the torsion coil spring are respectively projected inwardly, and at least one of the supporting walls includes an elastic piece defined by a slit formed around the spring supporting axis.

5. An urging device according to claim 4, wherein the axis holes are defined by concave portions which open inwardly, and the turning axes are projected outwardly from the elastic piece.

6. An urging device according to claim 1, wherein the abutting body surrounds at least one side of the turning axes from an outside, and also includes attachment guide portions slidably contacting outer peripheral borders of the bearing portions.