Active type dynamic damper

• US 6,907,969 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2003
• Issued: 06/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited.
• Original Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries Limited
• Inventors: Muramatsu, Atsushi, Ichikawa, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Graham, Matthew C.
• Application Number:
  US10/615,900
• Publication Number:
  US 20040017033A1
• Time in Patent Office: 712 Days
• Field of Search: 188/378, 188/379, 188/380, 267/140.12, 267/140.13, 267/140.14, 267/136
• US Class Current: 188/379
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 7/1011 by electromagnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 7/108 on plastics springs

Abstract

A damper main body of a dynamic damper comprises a long flat mounting plate portion, a rod-like central supporting metal member which is erected vertically in the center of a top face of the mounting plate portion, constituting a supporting member together with the mounting plate portion, cylindrical rubber bushings placed on the central supporting metal member in succession from its bottom side, a coil member, a magnet portion, a yoke and a cylindrical case mounted over the yoke. Grommets, which are cylindrical supporting portions made of rubber elastic bodies, are inserted into mounting holes in side plate portions of the mounting plate portion. The damper main body is fixed on a mating plate member through the compressed grommets such that it is floated over the mating plate member.

Claims

1. An active dynamic damper comprising:

a supporting member having a mounting plate portion and a central supporting portion fixed to a center of a surface of the mounting plate portion;

a mass member which surrounds the central supporting portion of the mounting plate portion and is disposed such that the mass member is departed from the mounting plate portion, the mass member configured to vibrate along an axial direction of said central supporting portion;

a rubber elastic body connecting portion configured to connect the central supporting portion of the supporting member with the mass member elastically; and

a vibration element configured to vibrate the mass member with a driving force generated by an input of a control pulse signal corresponding to vibration of a vibration generating source, said mounting plate portion being fixed on a vibration damping object member, wherein said mounting plate portion is fixed on the vibration damping object member through a rubber elastic supporting portion such that said mounting plate portion is departed from said vibration damping object member.

2. The active dynamic damper according to claim 1 wherein said control pulse signal is formed by overlaying a pulse width modulated carrier signal having a control frequency of several kHz to several tens of kHz on a reference pulse signal having a same frequency as a vibration frequency of an input pulse signal corresponding to vibration of a vibration generating source and adjusted in terms of phase and gain.

3. The active dynamic damper according to claim 2 wherein a resonance frequency of said rubber elastic body supporting portion with respect to said mass member is set up to a frequency region higher than said vibration frequency and lower than the control frequency of said carrier signal.