Sealing device

• US 9,506,432 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2014
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NOK Corporation
• Original Assignee: NOK Corporation
• Inventors: Sasaki, Yasushi, Inoue, Masahiko, Saito, Tomonari
• Primary Examiner(s): LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN
• Application Number:
  US14/903,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20160146167A1
• Time in Patent Office: 916 Days
• Field of Search: 181/229, 181/252, 181/256, 181/258, 123/184.53
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 9/104 Shaping of the flow path in the vicinity of the flap, e.g. having inserts in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: F02F 11/00 Arrangements of sealings in combustion engines piston rings F16J9/00
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 29/04 having screens, gratings, baffles or the like
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10091 characterised by details of intake ducts: shapes; connections; arrangements ducts within or on the plenum chamber F02M35/10039
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10262 Flow guides, obstructions, deflectors or the like for generating a charge motion in the cylinder F02B31/00; for re-atomising condensed fuel or homogenising fuel-air mixture F02M29/00
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/1211 by using inserts in the air intake flow path, e.g. baffles, throttles or orifices; Flow guides F02M35/1244 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/1216 by using a plurality of holes, slits, protrusions, perforations, ribs or the like; Surface structures; Turbulence generators
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/1283 Manufacturing or assembly; Connectors; Fixations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A sealing device that is capable of suppressing the generation of unusual noise by guiding a gas flow and suppressing the generation of unusual noise caused by resonance between the gas flow and a pipe. An intake noise reduction portion (20) includes a flow-guiding net portion (21) for guiding a gas flowing in an intake pipe, an annular frame body portion (22) for supporting the flow-guiding net portion (21), a cylindrical portion (23) that extends from the frame body portion (22) in a direction in which the pipe extends, and is fitted into an inner circumferential surface of a second pipe (220) and a flange portion (24) that extends from an end portion of the cylindrical portion (23) toward an outer circumferential surface side, and is disposed in a space between an end surface of a first pipe (210) and an end surface of the second pipe (220). A gasket portion (10) is provided on both surfaces of the flange portion (24).

Claims

1. A sealing device that comprises a gasket portion made of an elastic body for sealing a space between an end surface of one of two pipes configuring an intake pipe and an end surface of another of the two pipes, and an intake noise reduction portion for reducing intake noise,

wherein the intake noise reduction portion comprises:

a main body portion for reducing intake noise;

an annular frame body portion for supporting the main body portion;

a tubular portion that extends from the frame body portion in a direction in which the pipes extend, and is fitted into an inner circumferential surface of either one of the one pipe and the other pipe; and

a flange portion that extends from an end portion of the tubular portion toward an outer circumferential surface side, and is disposed in the space between the end surfaces of the one pipe and the other pipe, and

the gasket portion is provided on both surfaces of the flange portion.

2. The sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the main body portion is configured from a flow-guiding net portion for guiding a gas flowing in the intake pipe.

3. The sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the main body portion is configured from a plurality of suspended portions that are configured to sway in response to a gas flow.

4. The sealing device according to claim 3, wherein each of the plurality of suspended portions are provided with at least one through-hole.

5. The sealing device according to claim 2, wherein the flow-guiding net portion is configured such that a mesh thereof is fine in a vicinity of a center of a flow passage in the intake pipe and becomes coarser with distance from the vicinity of the center.

6. The sealing device according to claim 5, wherein the mesh of the flow-guiding net portion is formed of a plurality of radial portions extending radially outward from the vicinity of the center of the flow passage in the intake pipe and a plurality of concentric circular portions provided concentrically from the vicinity of the center.

7. A sealing device that comprises a gasket portion made of an elastic body for sealing a space between an end surface of one of two pipes configuring an intake pipe and an end surface of another of the two pipes, and an intake noise reduction portion for reducing intake noise,

wherein the intake noise reduction portion comprises:

a main body portion for reducing intake noise;

an annular frame body portion for supporting the main body portion;

a tubular portion that extends from the frame body portion in a direction in which the pipes extend,

an elastically deforming portion that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the tubular portion, and is in close contact with an inner circumferential surface of either one of the one pipe and the other pipe thereby supporting the tubular portion in its positioned state within the pipe by an elastic repulsive force thereof; and

a flange portion that extends from an end portion of the tubular portion toward an outer circumferential surface side, and is disposed in the space between the end surfaces of the one pipe and the other pipe, and

the gasket portion is provided on both surfaces of the flange portion.

8. The sealing device according to claim 7, wherein the main body portion is configured from a flow-guiding net portion for guiding a gas flowing in the intake pipe.

9. The sealing device according to claim 7, wherein the main body portion is configured from a plurality of suspended portions that are configured to sway in response to a gas flow.

10. The sealing device according to claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of suspended portions are provided with at least one through-hole.

11. The sealing device according to claim 8, wherein the flow-guiding net portion is configured such that a mesh thereof is fine in a vicinity of a center of a flow passage in the intake pipe and becomes coarser with distance from the vicinity of the center.

12. The sealing device according to claim 11, wherein the mesh of the flow-guiding net portion is formed of a plurality of radial portions extending radially outward from the vicinity of the center of the flow passage in the intake pipe and a plurality of concentric circular portions provided concentrically from the vicinity of the center.