Abstract: An exhaust pipe support including an elastic body having a ring shape, the elastic body comprising: an upper attachment portion having an upper attachment hole; a lower attachment portion having a lower attachment hole; and a pair of arm portions mutually connecting the upper and lower attachment portion. A first reinforcement rib is integrally formed on each outer circumferential surface of the arm portions. An upper end thereof is located at a higher position than a connecting position of an inner circumferential surface of the arm portion and the upper attachment portion and at a higher position than the center of the upper attachment hole, while a lower end thereof is located at a lower position than a connecting position of the inner circumferential surface of the arm portion and the lower attachment portion and at a lower position than the center of the lower attachment hole.

Abstract: A fluid filled vibration-damping device wherein a main orifice passage and a sub-orifice passage interconnecting a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber; an input-end moveable plate having restricted deformation, situated on a wall of an intermediate chamber and undergo displacement so as to transmit pressure from the pressure-receiving chamber to the intermediate chamber and give rise to pressure fluctuations in the intermediate chamber; an output-end moveable plate situated on a different wall from the input-end moveable plate in the intermediate chamber and adapted to transmit pressure fluctuations of the intermediate chamber to the equilibrium chamber to dispel pressure fluctuations of the intermediate chamber, and having restricted deformation such that an amount of capacity variability permitted in association with displacement is smaller than that of the input-end moveable plate.

Abstract: An exhaust pipe support including an elastic body having a ring shape, the elastic body comprising: an upper attachment portion having an upper attachment hole; a lower attachment portion having a lower attachment hole; and a pair of arm portions mutually connecting the upper and lower attachment portion. A first reinforcement rib is integrally formed on each outer circumferential surface of the arm portions. An upper end thereof is located at a higher position than a connecting position of an inner circumferential surface of the arm portion and the upper attachment portion and at a higher position than the center of the upper attachment hole, while a lower end thereof is located at a lower position than a connecting position of the inner circumferential surface of the arm portion and the lower attachment portion and at a lower position than the center of the lower attachment hole.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration damping device including: a rubber elastic body elastically connecting a first and second mounting member and partially defining a pressure-receiving chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid; a flexible layer partially defining an equilibrium chamber filled with the non-compressible fluid; an orifice passage permitting a fluid communication between the pressure-receiving chamber and equilibrium chamber; and a cushion surface situated opposite to an opening of the orifice passage to the pressure-receiving chamber in a first direction of flow of the fluid into and out of the opening, with a predetermined distance therebetween, while extending in a second direction approximately perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A fluid filled type vibration damping device having: a first and a second mounting member linked by a rubber elastic body; a pressure-receiving chamber partially defined by the rubber elastic body with a non-compressible fluid sealed therein; an equilibrium chamber partially defined by a flexible film with the non-compressible fluid sealed therein; a first orifice passage connecting between the pressure-receiving and equilibrium chambers; and a rigid septum member partitioning the pressure-receiving chamber into a first pressure-receiving section partially defined by the main rubber elastic body and a second pressure-receiving section partially defined by a displaceable fluid pressure adjustment member. The two pressure-receiving sections communicate together via through-holes formed through the septum member, which constitute a second orifice passage tuned higher than the first orifice passage.

Abstract: An orifice device is adapted to be disposed within a fluid chambers of a vibration absorption device. The fluid chamber is defined by at least a wall portion made of resilient material. The orifice device includes an orifice casing, a retaining cover and a membrane that is made of resilient material, such as rubber. The membrane is adapted to be clamped between the orifice casing and the retaining cover. A lock mechanism serves to lock the orifice casing and the retaining cover together when the orifice casing and the retaining cover rotate relative to each other about an axis while the orifice casing and the retaining cover are overlapped with each other.

Abstract: A rear engine mount includes a rectangular upper metal plate member, a metal stopper member, and a lower metal plate member. The metal stopper member includes a pair of side plates, and a bottom plate. The lower metal plate member is disposed a predetermined distance away from the upper metal plate member in a facing condition, with the metal stopper member disposed therebetween, and includes a pair of retaining portions provided at opposite end positions. A second stopper portion includes a pair of vertical plate portions standing on the lower metal plate member, and a horizontal plate member which is attached to the ends of the vertical plate portions and extended over the bottom plate of the metal stopper member. A pair of elastic rubber support members is bonded to the lower surface of the upper metal plate member at opposite end portions.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration damping device including: a rubber elastic body elastically connecting a first and second mounting member and partially defining a pressure-receiving chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid; a flexible layer partially defining an equilibrium chamber filled with the non-compressible fluid; an orifice passage permitting a fluid communication between the pressure-receiving chamber and equilibrium chamber; and a cushion surface situated opposite to an opening of the orifice passage to the pressure-receiving chamber in a first direction of flow of the fluid into and out of the opening, with a predetermined distance therebetween, while extending in a second direction approximately perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: An orifice device is adapted to be disposed within a fluid chambers of a vibration absorption device. The fluid chamber is defined by at least a wall portion made of resilient material. The orifice device includes an orifice casing, a retaining cover and a membrane that is made of resilient material, such as rubber. The membrane is adapted to be clamped between the orifice casing and the retaining cover. A lock mechanism serves to lock the orifice casing and the retaining cover together when the orifice casing and the retaining cover rotate relative to each other about an axis while the orifice casing and the retaining cover are overlapped with each other.

Abstract: A rear engine mount includes a rectangular upper metal plate member, a metal stopper member, and a lower metal plate member. The metal stopper member includes a pair of side plates, and a bottom plate, which collectively form a shape resembling the letter U, and stands on the lower surface of the upper metal plate member at longitudinally opposite end portions. The lower metal plate member is disposed a predetermined distance away from the upper metal plate member in a facing condition, with the metal stopper member disposed therebetween, and includes a pair of retaining portions provided at opposite end positions located in opposition to the opposite end portions of the upper metal plate member. A second stopper portion includes a pair of vertical plate portions which stands on the lower metal plate member, and a horizontal plate member which is attached to the ends of the vertical plate portions and extends over the bottom plate of the metal stopper member, thereby surrounding the bottom plate.

Abstract: Fluid-filled vibration damping device wherein two mutually spaced-apart mounting members are connected by an elastic body, which cooperates with a movable member to at least partially defines a fluid-filled pressure-receiving chamber, and the movable member partially defines a working air chamber on its side remote from the pressure-receiving chamber and is oscillated by a periodic change of an air pressure applied to the working air chamber through a pressure inlet, so as to cause a periodic change of the pressure of the fluid in the corresponding pressure-receiving chamber, for thereby controlling a damping characteristic of the damping device.

Abstract: A bottomed cylindrical second mounting metal member which defines with a diaphragm a closed air chamber is press-fitted in a fluid bath on a cylindrical metal member secured to an outer periphery of a lower side of a rubber elastic block having a downwadly opening cavity to assemble the second mounting metal member to the cylindrical metal member. As the press-fitting of the second mounting metal member proceeds, the internal pressure of the closed air chamber is increased and the diaphragm is deformed to pressurize the fluid inside a fluid-filled chamber.

Abstract: A fluid-filled cylindrical elastic mount including an inner and an outer sleeve, an elastic body interposed between the two sleeves, at least one fluid chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid, and a flow-restricting member freely movably accommodated in the fluid chamber. A flow-restricting portion is provided around the flow-restricting member. The flow-restricting member has a pair of opposite end faces facing the axially opposite walls partially defining the fluid chamber. The flow-restricting portion includes a pair of axially spaced-apart sections defined by the axially opposite walls and the opposite end faces of the flow-restricting member, and a pair of radially spaced-apart sections defined by the flow-restricting member and the radially opposite walls of the fluid chamber.

Abstract: A fluid-filled cylindrical elastic mount including an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve disposed radially outwardly of the inner sleeve with a predetermined radial spacing therebetween, and a generally annular elastic body interposed between the two sleeves for elastic connection therebetween. The elastic body at least partially defines an annular fluid chamber formed between the two sleeves and extending over the entire circumference of the mount. The fluid chamber has a substantially constant cross sectional area over the entire circumference thereof, and is filled with a non-compressible fluid having a kinematic viscosity of not higher than 100 centistokes. The elastic mount further includes an annular movable member accommodated in the fluid chamber, such that the movable member can be radially displaced relative to the inner and outer sleeves.

Abstract: A fluid-filled cylindrical elastic mount including an inner sleeve, a flange member fixed to one axial end of the inner sleeve, an outer sleeve having a cylindrical portion and a flange portion which is positioned opposite to the flange member in its axial direction, and a first and a second elastic body which are interposed between the inner and outer sleeves and between the flange member and the flange portion, respectively. These first and second elastic bodies cooperate with each other to define an annular fluid chamber which is filled with a non-compressible fluid. At least one resonance member is accommodated in the fluid chamber, and cooperates with an inner wall of the fluid chamber to define a resonance portion through which the fluid is caused to flow upon application of a vibrational load. The first elastic body includes a pair of thin-walled portions which are formed on diametrically opposite sides of the inner sleeve.

Abstract: A fluid-filled cushioning device having a cylindrical elastic body mounted on an inner sleeve and having an orifice structure with an orifice formed therethrough is disclosed. A pair of annular elastic members each having a retainer member and an outer sleeve are mounted on the inner sleeve such that the retainer member is press-fitted in the axial end portion of the inner sleeve while the orifice structure is sandwiched between the axial end faces of the outer sleeves, in the axial direction. A bracket is mounted on the outer sleeves of the elastic members and is fixed to a support member, so that the bracket forces the outer sleeves against the orifice structure. The inner sleeve, elastic body and elastic members define two fluid-filled chambers which are separated from each other by the elastic body and which communicate with each other through the orifice.

Abstract: A fluid-filled elastic cushioning device for elastically connecting a first and a second member, including an inner sleeve attached to the first member, an elastic body fitted on the inner sleeve and having two pockets which are open in opposite axial end faces of the elastic body, two closure members for closing the open ends of the pockets to thereby form two fluid chambers, an orifice member embedded in the elastic body and having an orifice communicating with the fluid chambers, and a mounting plate secured to the orifice member. At least one of opposite ends of the orifice is open at a bottom of the corresponding at least one of the pockets, and at least one stopper rubber block is secured to each of at least one of the closure members which closes the corresponding at least one of the pockets. Each rubber block extends into the corresponding one of the fluid chambers such that a free end of each rubber block is normally spaced apart from the corresponding open end of the orifice.