Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Showa Corporation Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiya Hasegawa

Suehiro Hasshi

Toshiki Takahashi

Keiichi Sunami

Shigenori Inaba

Shuichi Kato

Takeshi Murata

Hidehiko Koyano

Jiro Segawa

In a dust cover mounting structure of a hydraulic shock absorber ( ), a spring seat ( ) is formed in a non-annular outer shape, a standing-up rib ( ) is provided in an outer edge thereof, and a mounting portion ( ) of a dust cover ( ) is formed in a non-annular outer shape profiling an inner periphery of the rib ( ) of the spring seat ( ) and is received in the inner periphery of the rib ( ).

Dust cover mounting structure of hydraulic shock absorber

The wheel suspension system is dimensioned and positioned so as to be contained within a fore-and-aft profile of the engine assembly so that the wheel suspension system which is considered to be too rigid to define a crush zone in case of a vehicle crash is contained within the profile of the engine assembly, and would not in any way reduce the crush zone of the vehicle body which is effective in absorbing the impact energy of a vehicle crash. A steering gear may also be too rigid to define a crush zone. The engine assembly normally projects toward the passenger compartment at upper and lower parts thereof. Therefore, to avoid the steering mechanism from reducing the effective crush zone, the steering gear unit may be placed so as to oppose the recess thus defined in the engine assembly.

Engine room arrangement

In a wheel suspension system, a trailing link, which connects of a knuckle rotatably carrying a wheel to a vehicle body, has a front end which is pivotally attached to a vehicle body via a coupling rod fitted with a rubber bush, an axial center line of the coupling rod is slanted so that a rear end thereof is offset toward a center of the vehicle body, and a rear end which is attached to the vehicle body via a lateral arm made of a plate member so as to be flexible in a fore-and-aft direction. Thus, when the rear wheel is pulled backward as a result of applying a brake, the lateral member made of a plate member deflects and the rubber bush fitted on the coupling rod connecting the front end of the trailing link to the vehicle body deforms in the axial direction. Because the axial line of the coupling rod is slanted in such a manner that the rear end of the axial line is offset toward the center of the vehicle body, as the front end of the trailing link shifts rearward, it shifts toward the center of the vehicle. Thus, a desired change in the toe-in angle is produced when a brake is applied without compromising the firmness of the steering system.

Wheel suspension system

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Saitama, Japan

Toshiya Hasegawa