Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mamoru Sakata

Masaaki Minakawa

Hiroshi Yoshioka

Yozo Kami

Masahiro Ohashi

Tetsuro Mitsui

Disclosed is a strut type suspension for automobiles, consisting of a member for rotatably supporting a wheel, a lower control arm extending in the widthwise direction of a chassis and connected pivotably at its outer end to the support member, and a disc brake unit or internally expansible drum brake unit provided in the wheel. The disc brake unit is provided in its central portion with a recess opened to an inner side of the chassis, an outer end fixing portion of the lower control arm for connection to the support member being set in said recess so as to be close to the center line of ground contact of the wheel. In the above-mentioned strut type suspension for automobiles, which is provided with an internally expansible drum brake unit in a wheel, a support base to which an anchor block is fixed is formed on an inner side surface of a back plate of the drum brake unit so as to project inward therefrom, and a recess defined in an outer side surface of the back plate so as to deflect toward the projecting support base. An outer end fixing portion of the lower control arm, which is joined to the support member, is set in the recess so as to be close to the center line of ground contact of the wheel.

Strut type suspension for automobile

A power transmission device for a front-engine front-drive car having right and left drive shafts different in length from each other. The turning moments applied to right and left front wheels when the car is accelerated are made equal to each other by making the descent angles of the drive shafts respectively substantially equal to each other. Moreover, the allowable steering angle ranges of the right and left front wheels can be widened by allowing the angles made between the right and left drive shafts and the common axis of the right and left front wheels respectively to be substantially equal to each other as viewed in a plan view.

Power transmission device for front-engine front-drive car

An engine mounting structure for a vehicle of the front-engine, front-drive or rear-engine, rear-drive type, wherein an engine and a transmission are separately mounted with the output shaft of the engine and the input shaft of the transmission interconnected through a universal joint. The engine and the transmission are independently supported on the vehicle body through rubber mounts. With such an arrangement, vibrations from the engine can be effectively prevented, and the engine and the transmission can be reliably mounted on the body through supports which are respectively suitable for them.

Engine mounting structure for vehicles

A rear wheel suspension device comprises a radius rod extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle body, pivotally supported at one end and supporting the rear wheel axis at the other end, and a lower arm supporting at one end the rear wheel axle in cooperation with the radius rod and pivotally supported at the other end on the vehicle body, the radius rod extending substantially at 90 degrees to the lower arm. A resilient bush supporting the radius rod is formed to be relatively more resilient in the back-and-forth direction of the wheel, and a resilient bush supporting the lower arm in the transverse direction of the wheel is substantially rigid. With this arrangement, the movements of the rear wheel due to side forces in the toe-in and toe-out directions are suppressed for maintaining roadability, and at the same time the compliance in the back-and-forth directions of the rear wheel is enhanced for improved riding comfort.

Rear wheel suspension device for vehicles

A suspension device for front wheels in automotive vehicles having front drive shafts of mutually different shaft length, in which unbalanced rotatory moment to be imparted to the king pin means at the left and right sides of the wheels caused by a difference in the angles of inclination at the left and right drive shafts is compensated by providing a difference in the center offset quantities at both left and right wheels.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mamoru Sakata