Kyb Corporation

Tetsuo Arahata

Yuusuke Furuta

Tomomi Hayase

Hirohito Kato

Seiichiro Komatsu

Kouhei Tomita

Seiji Iwahara

Provided is a shock absorber capable of improving the dimensional quality and ensuring the sealing performance of a seal ring. The shock absorber includes a cylinder, an outer tube, an intermediate tube, and a discharge passage defined between the intermediate tube and the cylinder, a reservoir defined between the intermediate tube and the outer tube. The intermediate tube includes, on its inner circumferential surface, a groove having a concave shape in cross section to be capable of accommodating a seal ring that closes the discharge passage. A relationship of θ1<θ2 is satisfied, where θ1 represents an angle formed between one side surface, out of both side surfaces of the groove of the intermediate tube, that is located on an axial end side of the intermediate tube, and a plane orthogonal to an axial direction of the intermediate tube, and θ2 represents an angle formed between the other side surface that is located on an axial center side of the intermediate tube and the plane.

Shock absorber

A shock absorber includes a damping passage that connects an expanding-side chamber with a contracting-side chamber inside a cylinder, a housing that forms a pressurizing chamber, a free piston that partitions the pressurizing chamber into an expanding-side pressurizing chamber and a contracting-side pressurizing chamber, an expanding-side passage that connects the expanding-side chamber with the expanding-side pressurizing chamber, a contracting-side passage that connects the contracting-side chamber with the contracting-side pressurizing chamber, a spring element configured to suppress displacement of the free piston, a cushion configured to collide with the free piston to suppress displacement of the free piston thereover when the free piston is displaced from the neutral position with respect to the housing by a predetermined displacement amount or more; and a cushion fixing member fixed to the housing, the cushion fixing member holding the cushion.

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Gifu, Japan

Tetsuo Arahata