Patent ID: 8235188

Claim:
Damping element for a vibration damper that works with hydraulic damping fluid, having a base body configured as a circular disk, which has a plurality of first flow-through openings, each having an entry cross-section a in a first face side of the base body, as well as a plurality of second flow-through openings, each having an entry cross-section a in an opposite, second face side of the base body, circular valve disks on both face sides of the base body, which rest against a support surface of the base body, disposed in the center, and at least partially close off exit cross-sections of the flow-through openings, whereby the exit cross-sections are surrounded by control edges, which form the contact surface for the valve disks and project beyond the support surface as well as the entry cross-sections, and whereby the height of the control edges, increases with an increasing radial distance from the center point of the base body in the form of a circular disk, wherein the flow-through openings have a flow channel section that opens into a larger exit cross-section surrounded by the control edges, and wherein the exit cross-sections have a kidney-shaped outline and are disposed alternating with an entry cross-section, in each instance, in the circumference direction.