Patent ID: 8376328
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: F16F

Abstract:
1. A fluid filled vibration damping device comprising: a rubber elastic body elastically connecting a first mounting member and a second mounting member; a partition member supported on the second mounting member; a pressure receiving chamber whose wall is partly defined by the rubber elastic body; an equilibrium chamber whose wall is partly defined by a flexible film; the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber being filled with a non-compressible fluid, and the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber communicating with each other through an orifice passage, the partition member that partitions the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber being provided with a communication passage that connects the pressure receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber; an obstructing rubber elastic plate being juxtaposed against the communication passage from an equilibrium chamber side, being adapted to obstruct the communication passage, and being arranged such that pressure of the pressure receiving chamber acts upon a first face of the obstructing rubber elastic plate while pressure of the equilibrium chamber acts on another face thereof; and a constraining member being provided for retaining an outer peripheral section of the obstructing rubber elastic plate in a state of localized contact against the partition member at multiple locations on a circumference, wherein the constraining member provides an opening/closing control member such that positive pressure of the pressure receiving chamber acting on the obstructing rubber elastic plate induces zones situated in an outer peripheral section of the obstructing rubber elastic plate but away from retained sections by the constraining member to undergo elastic deformation in a direction of separation from the partition member, and open up the communication passage, and wherein the constraining member is constituted by a reinforcing member that is made of a plate spring and provided within the obstructing rubber elastic plate, and that has a plurality of spoke portions extending radially towards the outer peripheral section from a center section of the obstructing rubber elastic plate while having split rim portions that extend in a circumferential direction at the outer peripheral section of the obstructing rubber elastic plate, which are integrally provided at outside peripheral distal end sections of the spoke portions while being spaced away from one another in the circumferential direction, wherein at the outer peripheral section of the obstructing rubber elastic plate, the retained sections provided with the split rim portions of the plate spring are pressed and retained on the partition member by means of an urging force of the plate spring, and the urging force acting on the outer peripheral section of the obstructing rubber elastic plate in the retained sections is set at a higher level than an urging force acting on zones away from the retained sections in the outer peripheral section of the obstructing rubber elastic plate, so that the retained sections undergo elastic deformation in the direction of separation from the partition member through action of a positive pressure greater than a positive pressure of the pressure receiving chamber inducing elastic deformation in zones away from the retained sections, causing the communication passage to open up.