A top mount assembly including a housing for being connected to the frame of the vehicle. A rod connection assembly is disposed in the housing for being attached to a piston rod of the damper assembly. A chamber is defined between the rod connection assembly and the housing for receiving a fluid. A resilient member is disposed between the rod connection assembly and the housing. A partition assembly is positioned between the resilient member and the housing and axially divides the chamber into an upper chamber region and a lower chamber region. The partition assembly defines at least one passage that extends between the upper chamber region and the lower chamber region. At least one electromagnetic coil is disposed adjacent to the passage for selectively modifying the characteristics of the fluid passing through the passage to modify the damping characteristics of the top mount assembly.

A fluid-sealed engine mount may include an insulator integrally formed on an external side of a mount core configured to be coupled to an engine and having a chamber with which fluid for insulation of vibration is sealed; an orifice module mounted below the mount core to divide the chamber into two chambers and having a fluid passage for flow of the fluid; an air chamber provided at a center portion of the orifice module and filled with air; and an elastic membrane mounted above the air chamber at the center portion of the orifice module to seal the air chamber airtightly.

A fluid-filled tubular vibration-damping device comprising: an inner shaft member and an outer tube member connected by a main rubber elastic body so as to provide a sealed zone filled with a non-compressible fluid therebetween; and a partition wall partitioning the sealed zone axially. An outer peripheral side of the partition wall is fixed to the outer tube member while an inner peripheral side of the partition wall is constituted by an annular partition wall rubber disposed around the inner shaft member in a movable manner axially. Sealing tube parts are integrally formed with an inner peripheral portion of the partition wall rubber and project toward axially opposite sides. Fitting parts thicker than the sealing tube parts are integrally formed with distal ends of the respective sealing tube parts and are externally fitted around the inner shaft member in a slidable manner.

Technologies are generally described for lead-lag dampers. An example lead-lag may include a single- or two-stage floating annular ring, elastomer bearings, a tension stop, a compression stop, and a plunger/spring volume compensator. The floating annular ring(s) form orifice(s) in conjunction with the remaining damper components may provide stable performance by tracking with any center shaft misalignment during operation. The lead-lag damper may also include a secondary spring system allowing or disallowing fluid flow between chambers based on slow or sudden movement of the shaft.

A bush-type transmission mount, in which an orifice, operating as a fluid passage that connects a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber to each other, is directly formed to a desired length in a core that is coupled to a main rubber to improve vibration-damping characteristics. A membrane is fitted into an outlet portion of the orifice, which communicates with the first fluid chamber, in a sliding manner, thereby improving low-frequency idle vibration and high-frequency dynamic characteristics.

A partition member (17) of an anti-vibration device (1, 2, 3, 4) includes a membrane (31) and an orifice passage (21), the orifice passage includes a main liquid chamber-side passage (21a) and an auxiliary liquid chamber-side passage (21b), the main liquid chamber-side passage and the auxiliary liquid chamber-side passage extend in a circumferential direction and are disposed at mutually different radial positions, a flow direction in the main liquid chamber-side passage and a flow direction in the auxiliary liquid chamber-side passage are opposite to each other when liquid flows through the orifice passage, a channel cross-sectional shape in at least one passage of the main liquid chamber-side passage and the auxiliary liquid chamber-side passage is a laterally long flat shape that is short in an axial direction along a central axis (0) of a first attachment member and long in a radial direction, and a ratio of a radial size to an axial size in the one passage is larger than the ratio in the other passage of the main liquid chamber-side passage and the auxiliary liquid chamber-side passage.

An impact absorbing apparatus includes a first chamber including a first chamber wall and a first valve disposed in the first chamber wall. The impact absorbing apparatus includes a second chamber including a second chamber wall and a second valve disposed in the second chamber wall. A plurality of connecting pillars connects the first chamber to the second chamber. The plurality of connecting pillars is configured to shift position in response to a first impact. The first valve is configured to pass air in and out of the first chamber. The second valve is configured to pass air in and out of the second chamber.

Technologies are generally described for stackable, configurable monitoring systems for shock absorbers or dampers. An example monitoring system may include one or more sensor boards, a processor board, a power supply board, and a communications board stacked together and fitted into a body of a shock absorber (or damper). Each sensor board may condition sensor outputs from one or more sensors. The processor board may process the conditioned sensor outputs and provide data to external computing devices. In some examples, the power supply board may recharge an on-board battery. The stacking order of the boards may be configurable. In other examples, a displacement sensor board may be disposed on the body and measure displacement using a laser module.

A fluid-sealed engine mount includes a variable orifice whose cross-section is changed according to a magnitude of engine vibration, thereby keeping a damping performance substantially unchanged at a time of large displacement vibration of an engine as compared to a time of small displacement vibration of the engine.

A liquid sealed damper includes: an attachment portion attached to a peripheral portion of an opening of a vehicle or an opening and closing member for covering the opening; a contact portion to which an external force is input; an insulator configured to isolate vibration and connect the attachment portion and the contact portion; a main liquid chamber in which working liquid is sealed; an auxiliary liquid chamber having a wall portion formed of a diaphragm; and an orifice passage formed in the partition member and communicating with the main liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber. The partition member has a substantially circular surface forming a wall portion of the main liquid chamber. An opening portion at one end of the orifice passage is formed in the circular surface. The opening portion is formed to extend from an outer edge portion to a central portion of the circular surface.