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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2015
Nok Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Kamiya, Fukushima, JP;
Hiroki Matsui, Fukushima, JP;
Shinya Omoto, Tottori, JP;
Toru Nakashima, Tottori, JP;
NOK CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sealing structure allows for formation of a side lip, as well as a labyrinth structure between an oil seal and a torsional vibration damper, even when a reinforcing ring has a short inward flange part. The sealing bodyincludes a side lipextending from near a distal end of an inward flange partradially inward and further toward an air side (A) than a dust lipto a position not as far as the outer circumferential surface of a tubular part. An annular memberis further provided, which is fixed to the outer circumferential surface of the tubular partfurther on the air side (A) than the side lipand covering an outer circumferential surface of the side lipsuch that there is a gap between the annular memberitself and the outer circumferential surface of the side lip