Damper Throttle Structure for Speed-Adaptive Damping Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing damper devices with cylinder and piston bodies require complex structures to manage damping forces effectively, leading to increased complexity and potential inefficiencies in damping object movement.

Innovation Solution

A damper device with a cylinder body partitioned into two chambers by a cap body, featuring a flow channel and a throttle structure that adjusts the gap between a shaft and a through-hole in response to pressure changes, allowing for adjustable damping forces based on movement speed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a complex structure with multiple components is used to manage damping forces, then the damping control capability is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedamping control capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the cap body and piston body into a single integrated component, eliminating the need for separate components to manage damping forces. This merging reduces device complexity while maintaining the ability to control damping through the throttle structure formed by the integrated component's geometry

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The throttle structure dynamically adjusts the gap between the shaft and through-hole based on pressure changes during piston movement. This dynamic adjustment provides adaptive damping control that responds to movement speed and load conditions, improving versatility without requiring additional complex control mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Device complexity

If a fixed damping force structure is used, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to different movement speeds deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructure simplicityVSAvoiddamping force adjustability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The throttle structure changes the effective opening area (gap between shaft and through-hole) based on pressure differential caused by piston movement speed. At higher speeds, the pressure differential increases, closing the gap and increasing damping force, while at lower speeds the gap remains larger providing lower damping. This parameter change provides speed-adaptive damping without complex mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution provides a simpler structure for damper devices that effectively adjusts damping forces in response to movement speed, ensuring proper damping of the damping object without excessive force, thus enhancing the device's operational efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

a hole edge portion of the through-hole of the cap body is deformed by a pressure change generated by the movement or the relative movement of the piston body

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure change: Pressure Gradient

Implementation Method 2

a hole edge portion of the through-hole of the cap body is deformed by a pressure change

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectDeformation: Deformation

Implementation Method 3

the elastic portion 32 is deformed in the direction in which the inclination is relaxed by the pressure change

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElastic deformation: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentEP2469121B1Damper device
Publication Date: 2019.12.04 NIFCO INC
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AI summary

A cylinder body is partitioned by a partition into a first chamber that is divided from an outside by a cap body and a second chamber accommodating a piston body. A flow channel communicating the first chamber and the second chamber with each other is formed in the partition, and a shaft is projected from the partition onto the first chamber side. The cap body includes a through-hole, the shaft is inserted movably in the through-hole from a reference position along an axis line direction of the cylinder body. There is provided a throttle structure that changes a gap between the through-hole and the shaft when the cap body moves from the reference position by a pressure change generated by a movement or a relative movement of the piston body.