Showa Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Okayasu

Kiyosaburo Koyama

Sachio Nyui

A buffer for a bumper comprising an outer cylinder having its bottom closed and an inner cylinder fitted slidably into the outer cylinder and defined to be attached to the bumper at the tip thereof, a stopper being provided on the inner surface of the outer cylinder at the tip thereof for preventing the inner cylinder from being disconnected therefrom, an orifice and a check valve being provided at the heel of the inner cylinder for permitting exclusively to flow a fluid sealed in the outer cylinder to the inner cylinder therefrom, a free piston being provided in the inner cylinder for partitioning a gas sealed in the inner cylinder from the fluid sealed in the outer cylinder, and the fluid in the outer cylinder maintaining the gas under a compressed condition through the free piston at the heel of the inner cylinder, thereby allowing the free piston to displace in a damped speed to absorb the vibrations of an automobile attached with the bumper and to improve the stability of the automobile.

Buffer for a bumper

An oil pressure shock absorber which can be disassembled wherein an inner cylinder having a free piston fitted in it and a high pressure gas enclosed on the base end side is slidably fitted at the tip inside an outer cylinder, an oil seal is provided on their sliding contact surfaces, a plurality of orifices arranged in the axial direction are formed on the side wall of the inner cylinder inserted in the outer cylinder, an annular concave groove is formed on the inside surface of the outer cylinder so as to be opposed to the above mentioned orifices, axial concave grooves are made on the outside surface of the inner cylinder from its tip and the tip part of the inner cylinder and the interior of the outer cylinder are filled with oil, thereby a collision energy may be uniformly absorbed over the entire range of the stroke.

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Gyoda, Japan

Hitoshi Okayasu