Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

Masaki Shirashige

Hiroyuki Matsumura

Satoshi Uchida

Takaomi Kondo

Motoyuki Shibata

Toru Neichi

A stabilizer bushing for adhesive use including: a tubular rubber elastic body whose inner circumferential surface being configured to be adhered to a stabilizer bar; a bracket mounted onto an outer circumferential surface of the rubber elastic body and configured to be attached to a vehicle body; and concave/convex mated parts provided on axially opposite portions between the rubber elastic body and the bracket, the concave/convex mated parts protruding radially outward, wherein a mated height dimension of the concave/convex mated part is varied in a circumferential direction, and is made small at a position of input of a main radial load in the rubber elastic body.

Stabilizer bushing for adhesive use and stabilizer bar equipped with stabilizer bushing

A bracket includes: a recessed portion capable of accommodating a bushing; and a mount portion to be mounted on a vehicle-body-side component, on which a stabilizer bar is to be mounted via the bushing. The recessed portion has a pair of opposed portions opposed to each other. The pair of opposed portions have an intermediate portion and a portion nearer to an opening than the intermediate portion, and a distance between the pair of opposed portions is less at the portion nearer to the opening than at the intermediate portion.

Bracket

A stabilizer bushing including: a tubular main rubber elastic body configured to be disposed about and attachable to a stabilizer bar; an inside protrusion protruding in an axial direction from an inner peripheral part of the main rubber elastic body; and a bonding surface constituted by including an inner peripheral surface of the main rubber elastic body and an inner peripheral surface of the inside protrusion, the bonding surface being configured to be bonded to an outer peripheral surface of the stabilizer bar.

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Masaki Shirashige