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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1982
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1980
Toru Tanaka, Nagoya, JP;
Yutaka Tomizu, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
In a suspension system for an automotive vehicle which comprises a longitudinal shaft fixedly mounted on the vehicle body structure along the fore-and-aft axis, a control arm of the so-called 'A' type swingably supported at one end thereof from the shaft by means of a pair of front and rear rubber bushes, and a pair of retainer plates fixed to front and rear ends of the shaft and arranged to receive a load acting on the control arm in the forward or rearward direction through a portion of the respective rubber bushes for restricting forward or rearward displacement of the control arm, a stopper member is secured to the rear portion of the control arm and straddling the rear end of the shaft with a predetermined clearance, the stopper member being brought into engagement with the rear end of the shaft when the load acting on the control arm is larger than a predetermined value.