Suspension device for a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9440505-B2
Application number	US-201514836486-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 26, 2015
Priority date	Sep 16, 2014
Publication date	Sep 13, 2016
Grant date	Sep 13, 2016

Abstract

1. Objective:
Endurance of a dust cover 50 mounted on a suspension device wherein a top spring seat 85 is formed to be inclined to an axis of a shock absorber 10 and disposed rotatably about a top seat axis inclined to an axis of a shock absorber 10 is improved.
2. Means for Solution:
The suspension device comprises a rotation prevention portion 100 so that the dust cover 50 cannot rotate relatively a top seat portion 90 about an axis of the top seat portion 90 . The rotation prevention portion 100 comprises two convex portions 110 formed in the top seat portion 90 and two concave portions 120 formed in a top connecting portion 60 of the dust cover 50.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A suspension device for a vehicle comprising:
a shock absorber disposed between a wheel and a vehicle body,
a coil spring disposed between a top spring seat in a shape of a ring and a bottom spring seat in a shape of a ring, said top spring seat is disposed on the side of a structure which supports said vehicle body and said bottom spring seat is disposed on a cylinder sheath side of said shock absorber, and
a dust cover disposed between said shock absorber and said coil spring, said dust cover is elastically deformable and is in a shape of bellows tube,
wherein:
said top spring seat is formed so that a supporting surface which supports an upper end of said coil spring through an insulator is inclined to an axis of said shock absorber and said top spring seat is disposed rotatably about a top seat axis inclined to said axis of said shock absorber,
a lower end of said dust cover is attached to a sheath side member rotatably about an axis of said shock absorber, by being fitted into said sheath side member fixed and disposed on said cylinder sheath side,
an upper end of said dust cover is attached to said top spring seat by being fitted into a radially inner circumference portion of said top spring seat and comprises a cover side rotation prevention portion forming cover side rotation prevention surfaces which are surfaces enable to contact with said top spring seat in both rotational directions about said top seat axis so that said upper end of said dust cover does not relatively rotate about said top seat axis over said top spring seat in a status that said upper end of said dust cover is fitted into said radially inner circumference portion of said top spring seat, and
said top spring seat comprises a seat side rotation prevention portion forming seat side rotation prevention surfaces which are surfaces enable to contact with said cover side rotation prevention surfaces.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tsunekawa Hajime
• Enomoto Tomohito

Classifications

• F16F9/38

  Covers for protection or appearance · CPC title

• B60G2202/12

  Wound spring · CPC title

• B60G2204/4308

  Protecting guards, e.g. for rigid axle damage protection · CPC title

• B60G15/062

  the spring being arranged around the damper (B60G15/061, B60G15/067, B60G15/07 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60G11/14 Primary

  having helical, spiral or coil springs only {(B60G11/006 takes precedence)} · CPC title