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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Nobuhiro Noguchi, Aichi, JP;
Assignee:
KYB Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 9/48 (2006.01); F16F 9/06 (2006.01); F16F 9/088 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 9/48 (2013.01); F16F 9/062 (2013.01); F16F 9/088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A suspension device includes a shock absorber, an air spring that consists of a compressed gas that is sealed within an air chamber that expands/contracts in volume as the shock absorber extends/compresses so as to constantly bias the shock absorber in an extension direction, and a volume expanding mechanism that expands a volume of the air chamber according to an increase in a compression amount of the shock absorber when the compression amount of the shock absorber has reached or exceeded a predetermined amount.