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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2008
Ken Furuya, Tokyo, JP;
Ken Furuya, Tokyo, JP;
Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A steering shaft () penetrates a head tube () fixed to a vehicle body (A) of a motorcycle. The steering shaft () is coupled to a front wheel and handlebars of the motorcycle. A linear damper of a double-rod type is enclosed in the steering shaft (). When the steering shaft () rotates with respect to the vehicle body (A), a feed screw () engaged with a screw portion () on the outer circumference of one of the piston rods () causes the linear damper to operate. By enclosing the linear damper in the steering shaft (), a space for disposing the steering damping device can be minimized. The feed screw () converts a rotational displacement of the steering shaft () into an axial displacement of the piston rods () such that a bending load does not act on the piston rods ().