Damper device

• US 4,155,144 A
• Filed: 11/16/1977
• Issued: 05/22/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nikkey Co., Ltd. (Hibiya Engineering Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nikkey Co., Ltd. (Hibiya Engineering Limited)
• Inventors: Koganei, Tomokichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cohen, Moshe I.
• Application Number:
  US05/852,130
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: 16/54, 16/49, 16/51, 16/56, 16/58, 16/59, 16/57, 16/68, 16/128 R
• US Class Current: 16/54
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 3/20 in hinges

Abstract

A damper device comprises first and second cylinders which are adjacent and rotatable with respect to each other and have respective hinge pieces, a piston operation member provided in the first and second cylinders in such a manner that it is rotatable with respect to the first cylinder, a piston member to which is fitted a pressure control member which is provided with a multithread section on the outer wall thereof and with a through-hole in the central portion thereof and a through-hole having a check valve, and a plurality of chambers provided in the second cylinder the chambers being divided into the upper and lower chambers by the piston operation member. These chambers are communicated with the through-holes, and a cylinder with a bottom is fitted to the piston member. A plurality of protruded sections, each having predetermined length, width and height, corresponding to the thread grooves of the multi-thread section are formed on the cylinder with the bottom by pressing, so that the rotation around the axis and the vertical movement of the piston member is effected in the cylinder with the bottom.

Claims

1. In a damper device comprising a first cylinder carrying a hinge piece;

a second cylinder carrying another hinge piece axially arranged with respect to said first cylinder;

a rotation support-member disposed between said first and second cylinders which are rotatable with respect to each other;

a piston operating member secured at one end to the first cylinder and extending with its other end into said second cylinder;

a piston member located in said second cylinder and engaged by said other end of said piston operating member in such a manner that the piston member is moved vertially on rotation of said first cylinder;

an upper chamber and a lower chamber formed in the second cylinder by said piston operating member and said piston member;

a pressure control member fitted on said piston member;

a check valve in said pressure control member communicating with said lower chamber;

the improvement comprising;

a cylindrical end piece located at the end of the second cylinder remote from the first cylinder;

a plurality of inwardly protruding sections formed inside said cylindrical end piece and in threaded engagement with multi-threads on the outer wall of said piston member;

a control rod axially extending the full length of said piston operating member and pressure control member;

a tapered portion on said control rod; and

a pressure control screw at the end of the control rod projecting beyond the piston operating member, the arrangement being such that the dampening action of the device can be controlled by adjustment of the pressure control screw.