Patent ID: 8434600

Claim:
A damping device for damping of movement of movable furniture parts of pieces of furniture, the damping device comprising: a piston ( 14 ) which is mounted in a housing ( 12 ) so as to be longitudinally displaceable and which as a function of its displaced position forms on opposing sides two working chambers ( 24 ; 26 ) which are variable in size and are filled with a fluid damping medium, enabling by means of at least one overflow connection a throttled overflow of the damping medium between the two working chambers ( 24 ; 26 ), the two working chambers include a first working chamber ( 26 ) through which the piston rod ( 28 ) passes and a second working chamber ( 24 ) lying opposite the first working chamber ( 26 ), a piston rod ( 28 ) extending in a sealed manner out of an associated front end of the housing ( 12 ) is connected on one side of the piston ( 14 ) and the movement of the furniture part to be damped is transferred to the piston ( 14 ) by way of an outer end of the piston rod remote from the piston, wherein on a side of the piston ( 14 ) lying opposite the first working chamber ( 26 ) on the piston rod side there is connected an elongate adjusting shaft ( 38 ) with a diameter substantially corresponding to a diameter of the piston rod ( 28 ), and a free end of the adjusting shaft also extending out of the housing ( 12 ) out of an end face lying opposite an end face closed on the piston rod side, and that an end of the adjusting shaft ( 38 ) connected to the piston ( 14 ) engages in a through channel connecting the two working chambers and is constructed in such a way that it forms a throttle cross-section which is variable in size in the through channel ( 42 ) due to adjusting movements of the shaft ( 38 ) relative to the piston ( 14 ), wherein the adjusting shaft ( 38 ) and the through channel ( 42 ) are offset laterally from one another, but each is disposed parallel to a longitudinal central axis of the housing.