Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Noboru Arakawa

Jyoji Tsutsumida

Naohito Kuwayama

Akihiro Mayama

Tatsuya Ito

Kazushi Saikusa

A method of manufacturing a bushing assembly that includes a vibration damping rubber bushing having a round cylindrical resin outer cylinder, which is assembled by press fitting an outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder in an axial direction into a cylindrical metal mated component having a circular inside peripheral face. The vibration damping rubber bushing is press fit into the mated component with a rigid powder composed of material harder than the outer cylinder deposited in a section of the resin outer cylinder that is situated on the outside peripheral face and that mates with the inside peripheral face of the mated component, and the outer cylinder and the mated component are assembled in a mated condition such that the rigid powder intervenes between the outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder and the inside peripheral face of the mated component.

Method of manufacturing bushing assembly and vibration damping rubber bushing

An engine mount having an upper and a lower mounting member connected by a rubber elastic body disposed therebetween, to be installed on a vehicle with a opposition direction of the upper and lower mounting member inclined with respect to a vertical, and an adjustment plate member affixed to the upper mounting member with the adjustment plate member and the lower mounting member elastically connected by the rubber elastic body disposed therebetween. An upper stopper portion is integrally formed by bending a lower end portion of the adjustment plate member toward the upper mounting member so that the upper stopper portion extends generally on a horizontal when installed on the vehicle. A lower stopper portion disposed on the lower mounting member is situated below the upper stopper portion with a gap therebetween. A bound cushion rubber is formed on the upper stopper portion and/or lower stopper portion.

Engine mount

An engine mount including a rubber elastic body connecting an upper and lower mounting plate fixture and a rebound stopper mechanism having an upper stopper integrally formed with an upper mounting plate fixture and a lower stopper integrally formed with a lower mounting plate fixture. The upper stopper is bolted to a power unit at a position deviating more toward the inside of the power unit than a position of an elastic main axis of the rubber elastic body on the upper mounting plate fixture so that the stopper mechanism in the rebound direction is positioned generally vertically below the position where the upper stopper is bolted to the power unit, whereas the lower stopper is bolted to the vehicle body at a position deviating more toward the inside of the power unit than the position of the elastic main axis of the rubber elastic body on the lower fixture.

A vibration isolator includes an inner cylindrical metal member, an outer cylindrical metal member located outside the inner cylindrical metal member in a radial direction, and a rubber elastic member interposed between the inner and outer cylindrical metal members so as to elastically connect between these metal members, and is supported by a support metal member forced and fixed into an axial hole of the inner cylindrical metal member. The inner cylindrica metal member is coaxially bulged in a radial direction.

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Nagoya, Japan

Noboru Arakawa