Kayaba Industry Company, Ltd.

Kayaba Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasukuni Watanabe

Takeharu Shizume

In a caster which supports a wheel by using via a link a bracket to be fitted to a wheelchair or the like, an end of the link is connected with a rotation axis of the bracket via a rubber member which is twisted and deformed resulting from oscillating motion of the link and the link and the bracket are connected by a hydraulic damper which damps the oscillating motion of the link whereby an oscillation or a shock can be absorbed.

Caster

A caster which is mounted in a trolley or the like having a bracket connected to a body of a vehicle; a link connected to rotate on the bracket vehicle wheels connected to rotate on the link and a compressible rubber block which deforms as the link rotates. The compressible rubber block forms an initial compressible part which partially eliminates a surface area of the compressible rubber block. In this manner it is possible to restrain input forces on the vehicle body by smoothing out the rotation of the link

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasukuni Watanabe