JP3384199B2 - Seal structure - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a seal structure applied to, for example, an eyeball support portion of a leaf spring device for vehicle suspension.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a suspension leaf spring device for a vehicle has a structure in which eyeball portions at both ends of a main plate are supported by a shackle pin on a vehicle body side bracket or shackle link. In such an eyeball supporting portion, conventionally, as shown in FIG. 9, a shackle pin 3 is inserted into an eyeball portion 2 arranged inside a bracket 1 to rotatably support the eyeball portion 2 via a bush 4. I am trying. In addition, the sliding portion 5 between the pin 3 and the bush 4
As a means for injecting grease, a hole 6 for grease supply is provided, and the grease can be supplied to the sliding portion 5 by a grease supply mechanism (not shown).

Further, in the above-mentioned conventional structure, as a means for containing grease in the sliding portion 5 between the pin 3 and the bush 4, oil seals 7 are provided at both ends of the bush 4, and the lip portion 7a of the oil seal 7 is attached to the pin 3. It has been proposed to seal between the pin 3 and the bush 4 by making them in close contact with. In this case, when the eyeball portion 2 is assembled, the bush 4 and the oil seal 7 are set inside the eyeball portion 2, and the pin 3 is hammered into the bush 4 from one side of the bracket 1 by a hammer or the like.

[0004]

The lip portion 7a is
In order to allow old grease to be discharged from the sliding portion 5 when replacing the grease on the sliding portion 5, the tip (free end) of the lip portion 7a extends obliquely outward in the axial direction of the pin 3 It is shaped like a stop valve. For this reason, in the assembling work of the eyeball portion 2, when the center of the bush 4 and the center of the oil seal 7 are displaced from each other when the pin 3 is hammered into the bush 4, a part of the lip portion 7a in the circumferential direction is generated. The pin 3 is strongly pressed locally by the tip end surface of the pin 3 to cause deformation beyond the allowable limit, and the lip portion 7a may be damaged. If the oil seal 7 is damaged in this way, when the leaf spring 11 is used, foreign matter such as sand dust enters between the pin 3 and the bush 4, and the inner surface of the bush 4 is significantly worn.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to use a pin and a bush that rotate with each other, such as the eyeball portion of a leaf spring device, and prevent damage to the lip and the like when the pin is assembled to the bush. It is an object of the present invention to provide a seal structure capable of sufficiently performing the sealing function.

[0006]

The seal structure of the present invention comprises:
The cylindrical pin (14) and the pin (14) are inserted so that they can rotate relative to each other.
Pin (14) and bush (50) come in contact with the bush (50)
And a sealing device provided at the end of the sliding part.
The sealing device of is an annular ring along the circumferential direction of the bush (50).
An annular frame that holds the bush (50)
(70) and an inner circumference of the frame (70) made of an elastic material
Has a base (80) that is fixed to the
Make sure that the lip (81) that continuously contacts the peripheral surface in the circumferential direction.
And a seal body (71) having the above-mentioned frame (7).
Install a rising wall (76) that extends toward the center of the bush (50) in (0).
At the same time as kicking, attach the pin (14) to the tip of this rising wall (76).
Synthetic resin guide with inner peripheral surface that can contact the outer peripheral surface
Provided with the portion (77) and an axially intermediate portion of the lip portion (81)
To the center of the bush (50) with respect to the inner peripheral surface of the guide (77).
Provide a protruding chevron lip top (83) and
The pin (1
4) Insert the bush (50) into the bush (50)
Spread by being pushed by the slope of the chamfered part (36) of
While bending in the direction, attach the lip top (83) to the outer peripheral surface of the pin (14).
The contact surface has an inclined surface (85) and the frame (70) is
Is accommodated in a groove (65) formed along the circumferential direction formed at the end of the base (50).
The ring-shaped frame body (75) and the frame body (7
5) The rising wall (76) made of synthetic resin provided in
At the tip of this rising wall (76), a synthetic resin
The guide part (77) is integrally provided, and this guide part (77) rises up the wall.
From the tip of (76) toward the seal body (71), attach the frame (70).
Freely before inserting the pin (14), protruding axially
In this state, the guide (77) and the frame body (75)
Insert the tip (82) of the lip (81) into the area surrounded by
By doing so, the tip (82) of the lip (81) will become the guide (77).
It is characterized in that it does not protrude from the center of the bush (50) .

According to the seal structure of the present invention having the above structure,
When the pin is hit into the bush, the inner peripheral surface of the guide part of the frame of the seal device contacts the pin, so that the center of the frame is aligned with the pin, and the center of the seal body and the center of the pin are also aligned accordingly. become. As the pin is inserted, the inclined surface of the lip portion comes into contact with the inclined surface of the chamfered portion of the pin tip, and the lip top portion comes into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the pin while bending in the direction in which the lip portion expands. Therefore, the entire circumference of the lip portion can be bent substantially evenly when the pin is inserted, and an excessive load or deformation is prevented from being concentrated on a part of the lip portion .

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. The vehicle suspension mechanism 10 shown in FIG. 6 includes a leaf spring device 11 that functions as a suspension spring. The eyeball portion 13 on one end side of the main plate 12 of the leaf spring device 11 is rotatably supported by a bracket 15 on the vehicle body side via a spring pin 14. An eyeball portion (not shown) on the other end side of the main plate 12 is swingably supported in the front-rear direction by a bracket on the vehicle body side via a shackle link and a shackle pin (not shown). At the middle portion of the leaf spring device 11 in the longitudinal direction, the axle 2
0 is fastened by the U bolt 21, and the lower part of the shock absorber 22 is connected.

The eyeball support portion 30 shown in FIG. 3 includes a steel bracket 15 fixed to the vehicle body and a cylindrical pin (spring pin) 14 inserted into the bracket 15. The bracket 15 has a pair of left and right boss portions 31 and 32. The spring pin insertion hole 3 is formed in the boss portions 31 and 32.
3, 34 are formed.

The spring pin insertion holes 33, 3
By inserting the steel pin 14 in the horizontal direction, the both ends of the pin 14 are attached to the boss portion 31 of the bracket 15,
32 is supported. A tapered chamfer 36 is formed on the peripheral edge of the tip surface of the pin 14. The inclination angle θ1 (see FIG. 4) of the chamfer 36 is
It is around 45 ° or less.

The pin 14 has a spring pin insertion hole 3
After being inserted to the specified position with respect to 3, 34, the pin 14
The lock bolt 41 is inserted into the lock bolt insertion hole 40 penetrating in the radial direction, and the lock bolt 41 is fixed by a nut (not shown) to prevent the pin 14 from coming off the bracket 15.

The eyeball portion 13 is arranged between the boss portions 31 and 32, and both end surfaces of the eyeball portion 13 and the bracket 15 are arranged.
A side washer 45 is provided between the inner surface and the inner surface. A cylindrical metal bush 50 is inserted inside the eyeball portion 13. On the inner peripheral surface of the bush 50, that is, on the surface in contact with the pin 14, a sintered layer 51 made of a solid lubricant-dispersed sintered metal is formed. It is made possible to impregnate a mixture of fine particles of a solid lubricant such as molybdenum or Sekiboku.

The pin 14 is provided with a lubricant supplying hole 55 and a groove 56 which function as a lubricant supplying means. A grease supply mechanism (for example, an auto-glister) is connected to an end 57 on the inlet side of the lubricant supply hole 55 via a grease nipple (not shown), and the lubricant is applied to the sintered layer 51 from the outside of the pin 14. We are ready to supply.

Sealing devices 60 and 61 are provided at both ends of a sliding portion 58 where the pin 14 and the bush 50 are in contact with each other.
These sealing devices 60, 61 are arranged so as to be bilaterally symmetric with each other, but since the substantial configuration and operation are the same as each other, one sealing device 60 shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. The description will be given on behalf.

The sealing device 60 is housed in circumferentially continuous grooves 65 provided on the inner peripheral surfaces of both ends of the bush 50. The sealing device 60 includes an annular frame 70 continuous in the circumferential direction, and a seal body 71 housed inside the frame 70.

As shown enlarged in FIG. 4, the frame 70
Is a metal annular frame body 7 located on the right side of the drawing.
5 and a rising wall 76 made of synthetic resin on the left side in the drawing
And is configured. Frame body 75 has pin 1
4 has an annular shape along the circumferential direction. Rising wall 7
6 extends toward the center of the bush 50, and a guide portion 77 is provided on the tip side of the rising wall 76. The inner peripheral surface 78 of the guide portion 77 can contact the outer peripheral surface of the pin 14.

The inner peripheral surface 78 of the guide portion 77 extends in the axial direction of the frame 70 from the tip of the rising wall 76 toward the seal body 71. The rising wall 76 in the illustrated example is fixed to the frame body 75 by an appropriate fixing means such as adhesion. However, if there is no problem in strength, the frame body 75 and the rising wall 76 may be integrally formed of synthetic resin.

As the material of the guide portion 77, for example, a material such as a fluorine resin such as ethylene tetrafluoride, which has a small friction coefficient and is hard to be worn with respect to the metal pin 14, is suitable. As shown in FIG. 1, the inner diameter D1 of the guide portion 77 is the outer diameter D2 of the pin 14 before the pin 14 is inserted.
Is equal to or slightly larger than the outer diameter D2 of the pin 14, and the pin 14 can be inserted in the guide portion 77 from the axial direction.

The seal body 71 is made of an elastic material such as synthetic rubber, and has an annular shape continuous in the circumferential direction of the bush 50. The cross section of each portion in the circumferential direction of the seal body 71 is constant.

As shown enlarged in FIG. 4, the seal body 71
Includes a base portion 80 fixed to the frame main body 75 and a lip portion 81 connected to the base portion 80. The seal main body 71 is fixed to the frame 70 such that the lip tip 82 faces outward in the axial direction of the bush 50.

A mountain-shaped lip top portion 83 projecting toward the center of the bush 50 from the inner peripheral surface 78 of the guide portion 77 is provided at the axially intermediate portion of the lip portion 81. The inner diameter D3 (shown in FIG. 1) of the lip top portion 83 is equal to that of the lip portion 8
The diameter of the bush 50 is smaller than that of the other portion 1, and D3 is smaller than the inner diameter D4 of the bush 50.

The lip portion 81, as shown in FIG.
In the free state before inserting the pin 14, the lip top portion 83 projects from the inner peripheral surface 78 of the guide portion 77 by the height H. A portion of the frame 70 extending outward in the axial direction from the lip top portion 83 toward the lip tip 82 has an angle θ2.
Is an inclined surface 85. The angle θ2 is an angle corresponding to the inclination angle θ1 of the chamfered portion 36 of the pin 14.

The lip tip 82 is inserted into a portion surrounded by the guide portion 77 and the frame main body 75 so that the lip tip 82 does not protrude from the guide portion 77 toward the center of the bush 50. The lip portion 81 has a chamfered portion 3 at the tip of the pin 14 when the pin 14 is inserted.
The lip portion 81 elastically bends inside the guide portion 77 as shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG.

According to the seal structure having the above construction, even if the center of the bush 50 and the center of the seal device 60 do not coincide with each other before the pin 14 is inserted into the bush 50 as shown in FIG. When the guide portion 77 of the frame 70 is fitted into the pin 14, the center of the seal device 60 is aligned with the center of the pin 14 by being inserted into the bush 50, and is fixed to the frame 70. The center of the seal main body 71 is also aligned with the center of the pin 14.

Moreover, when inserting the pin 14, the pin 1
Since the inclined surface of the chamfered portion 36 of FIG. Is avoided, and damage due to excessive deformation of the lip portion 81 is prevented.

When the eyeball support portion 30 is used, the guide portion 77 gradually wears following the wear of the bush 50, but the elastically bendable lip portion 81 has the entire circumference. Since the state of being in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the pin 14 can be maintained, foreign matter such as sand dust can be prevented from entering between the pin 14 and the bush 50 during use, and the lubricant of the sliding portion 58 can be prevented from leaking. Since this can be prevented, the wear of the bush 50 can be reduced.

When it becomes necessary to replace the lubricant due to deterioration of the lubricant of the sliding portion 58, the pin 14 and the bush 50 are fed by means of a lubricant supply means such as an auto-glister.
By inserting a new lubricant between the pin 14 and the bush 50, the new lubricant is press-fitted between the pin 14 and the bush 50.
It is forced out to the outside via 0,61. In this case, since the lip tip 82 faces outward, the lubricant can be discharged. Here, in order to easily discharge the lubricant from the sliding portion 58, it is preferable to provide notched or hole-shaped lubricant discharging portions 91 at a plurality of circumferential positions of the frame 70 as shown in FIG.

The eyeball portion on the other end side (shackle link portion) of the leaf spring device 11 is also rotatably supported by the shackle link using a pin similar to the pin 14 of the eyeball portion 13. There is. Further, the present invention is not limited to the eyeball supporting portion of the leaf spring device as in the above-described embodiment, and can be similarly applied as long as it is necessary to contain the lubricant between the pin and the bush.

FIG. 7 shows a sealing device 60 according to another embodiment of the present invention. The lip portion 81 of the sealing device 60
Is a lip top 8 projecting in a chevron shape as in the previous embodiment.
However, the lip tip 82 does not enter the inside of the guide portion 77 of the frame 70. Seal body 71
A ring spring 95 is embedded in the base portion 80 of the. The ring spring 95 continuously surrounds the frame main body 75 in an annular shape, and the elastic force of the ring spring 95 presses the seal main body 71 against the frame main body 75. The seal body 71 can be fixed without adhering to the frame 70. The other configurations, functions and effects are substantially the same as those of the above-described embodiment.

Also in the case of this embodiment (FIG. 7), the lip portion 81 projects by a height H from the inner peripheral surface 78 of the guide portion 77 of the frame 70, as in the above embodiment (FIG. 4 etc.). Then, when the pin 14 is inserted into the bush 50, the center of the pin 14 and the center of the seal body 71 can be aligned with each other by fitting the inner peripheral surface 78 of the guide portion 77 to the pin 14, so that the center of the pin 14 can be aligned with each other. As the inclined surface 85 is pushed by the inclined surface of the chamfered portion 36 at the tip of the pin as it is inserted, the lip top portion 83 can contact the outer peripheral surface of the pin 14 while bending in the direction in which the lip portion 81 expands. Therefore, the entire circumference of the lip portion 81 can be uniformly deformed,
Seal body 71 due to local overload or excessive deformation
It can prevent damage.

The embodiment shown in FIG. 8 has a pin 14 in which the lubricant supply hole 55 of the embodiment (see FIG. 3) is not formed.
Has been adopted. The configurations and effects of the sealing devices 60 and 61 are similar to those of the above-described embodiment. This embodiment (FIG. 8)
In the case of 1, in the solid lubricant dispersion type sintered layer 51 formed on the inner surface of the bush 50, a highly durable lubricant having a long life is contained by the sealing devices 60 and 61, so that the replacement of the lubricant is unnecessary for a long time. There is.

[0032]

According to the seal structure of the present invention, the pin is blocked.
Before inserting into the bush,
Insert the pin into the bush even if it is not aligned with the center
By doing so, the guide part of the frame can be fitted to the pin.
With, the center of the sealing device is aligned with the center of the pin.
Inside the seal body that is fixed to the frame
The heart also fits the center of the pin. Therefore, according to the present invention
With this, when inserting the pin into the bush, it is possible to prevent problems such as damage to the lip part of the seal body that is locally pushed too far by the tip of the pin, and the seal body can function normally. it can. Also, since the center of the seal body can be aligned with the center of the pin even after the pin is inserted into the bush, the entire circumference of the lip top can contact the outer peripheral surface of the pin almost evenly, and the deviation of the lip part It is also very effective in preventing wear.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a state before a pin is inserted in a seal structure showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a state after inserting the pin of the seal structure shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a leaf spring eyeball support portion including the seal structure shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a part of the seal structure shown in FIG.

5 is a front view of a sealing device used in the sealing structure shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a part of a vehicle suspension mechanism.

FIG. 7 is a partial cross-sectional view of a seal structure showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of an eyeball support portion provided with a seal structure showing yet another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of an eyeball support portion having a conventional seal structure.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Leaf spring device 13 ... Eyeball part 14 ... pin 30 ... Eye support 50 ... Bush 51 ... Solid lubricant dispersion type sintered layer 60, 61 ... Sealing device 70 ... Frame 71 ... Seal body 75 ... Frame body 77 ... Guide section 78 ... Inner surface 81 ... Lip part 82 ... Lip tip 83 ... Lip top 85 ... Inclined surface

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A sealing device comprising: a columnar pin; a bush into which the pin is inserted so as to be rotatable relative to each other; and a sealing device provided at an end of a sliding portion where the pin and the bush are in contact with each other. Has an annular frame formed along the circumferential direction of the bush and held by the bush, and a base made of an elastic material and fixed to the inner circumference of the frame, and the outer circumference of the pin. A seal body having a lip portion continuously contacting the surface in the circumferential direction, and a rising wall extending toward the center of the bush is provided in the frame, and the outer peripheral surface of the pin is provided on the tip side of the rising wall. A guide part made of synthetic resin having an inner peripheral surface capable of contacting with the bush, and protruding toward the center of the bush from the inner peripheral surface of the guide part at the axially intermediate part of the lip part. In addition to providing a chevron-shaped lip apex that protrudes, in a portion that extends outward in the axial direction from the lip apex, in the direction in which it spreads by being pushed by the inclined surface of the chamfered portion at the peripheral edge of the pin tip when inserting the pin into the bush. An inclined surface is provided to bring the lip top into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the pin while flexing, and the frame has a circumferential direction formed at the end of the bush.
An annular frame body that is housed in a groove along the direction,
The rising wall made of synthetic resin provided on the frame body
And the synthetic resin at the tip of this rising wall.
The guide part is integrally provided, and the guide part extends from the tip of the rising wall to the seal book.
It projects toward the body in the axial direction of the frame,
In the free state before inserting the
Of the lip part in the part surrounded by the frame body
By inserting the tip, the tip of the lip part
A seal structure characterized in that it does not protrude from the guide to the center of the bush . 2. The leaf spring of a suspension mechanism for a vehicle, wherein the sealing device is a leaf spring.
It is provided at both ends of the bush at the center of the device.
A solid lubricant dispersion type sintered layer is formed on the inner surface of the bush.
Between the pin and the bush inserted in this bush.
A special feature is that the above-mentioned sintered layer of the sliding part between
The seal structure according to claim 1, which is a characteristic .