Patent ID: 7389976

Claim:
A vibration damping device comprising: a rubber elastic body having a generally frustoconical shape overall; a retainer member of generally cup shape being bonded by vulcanization to the rubber elastic body so as to open onto a small-diameter end face of the rubber elastic body; a first mounting member disposed separably superposed against the small-diameter end face of the rubber elastic body so that the first mounting member comes into contact with an open end face of the retainer member in an axial direction; a second mounting member bonded to an outer peripheral face of a large-diameter end of the rubber elastic body; a rebound stopper mechanism for restricting in a cushionwise manner an amount of relative displacement of the first mounting member in a direction of separation away from the rubber elastic body being disposed between the first mounting member and the second mounting member; and a stopper rubber disposed in the axial direction between an opposing face of the first mounting member and an opposing face of the retainer member so as to project from one of the opposing faces to an other one of the opposing faces, wherein when the first mounting member is caused to undergo relative displacement in the axial direction from a separated position towards the retainer member, the stopper rubber comes into contact with the other one of the opposing faces of the first mounting member and the retainer member until the first mounting member comes into contact with the open end face of the retainer member so that a shock produced at a time when an abutting face of the first mounting member comes into contact with the open end face of the retainer member functioning as an abutting face of the retainer member is absorbed; and wherein a receiving space is disposed between the opposing faces of the first mounting member and the retainer member so that the stopper rubber is accommodated in an elastically compressive-deformed state within the receiving space when the first mounting member and the open end face of the retainer member come into contact with each other.