Patent ID: 8875452

Claim:
An energy dissipating metal plate which is a single flat metal plate, which joins a pair of members and which exhibits energy dissipating performance corresponding to a relative displacement between the members, the energy dissipating metal plate comprising: a pair of first joint parts to be joined to one of the members; a second joint part to be joined to the other of the members; and a pair of vibration dissipating parts having slits, wherein the pair of the first joint parts and the second joint part are formed in a strip shape substantially parallel to a direction of the relative displacement, the first joint parts are allocated in two lines in positions substantially line-symmetric with each other about the second joint part, the vibration dissipating parts are allocated in two lines in positions substantially line-symmetric with each other about the second joint part, one of the vibration dissipating parts is provided on a transmission path of a tensile force and a compression force between one of the first joint parts and the second joint part, the other of the vibration dissipating parts is provided on a transmission path of a tensile force and a compression force between the other of the first joint parts and the second joint part, and among the slits of the vibration dissipating parts, the slits positioned at both ends of the direction of the relative displacement are configured to be connected with each other and as being slits with a major axis thereof being along a direction which is substantially orthogonal to the direction of the relative displacement.