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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
May. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hirotetsu Sonoda, Saitama, JP;
Tatsuya Harada, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Unisia JKC Steering Systems Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 5/06 ;
Abstract
A steering damper has a pair of damper portions each including a variable throttle valve for restricting inflow from a power cylinder into a flow passage change-over valve, the variable throttle valve provided on the way to each cylinder passage and a first check valve for permitting inflow from the flow passage change-over valve into the power cylinder, the check valve connected in parallel with the variable throttle valve. The steering damper has a second check valve in communication to a tank between the first check valve and left and right chambers of the power cylinder.