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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
Showa Corporation, Gyoda-shi, JP;
Gota Nakano, Gyoda, JP;
Kazuki Hirawata, Gyoda, JP;
Nariaki Sato, Gyoda, JP;
Kunio Shibasaki, Gyoda, JP;
SHOWA CORPORATION, Gyoda-Shi, JP;
Abstract
An elastic sheet includes: a seating portion by which the coil spring is supported and which has a circular arc shape in a view from the axial direction, one circumferential side of the seating portion being a side of entry of the coil spring; and a pair of sidewall portions extending from respective width-wise opposite ends of the seating portion toward the coil spring side, at least one of the sidewall portions has a wire contact surface that contacts a wire forming the coil spring and an inclined surface inclined so as to approach the spring bearing as the inclined surface extends widthwise outward from the wire contact surface, and a radius of curvature of the wire contact surface at least at a side closest to the inclined surface is smaller than a radius of the wire.