US 12,085,141 B2
Shock absorber
Masato Suehiro, Hitachinaka (JP); Atsushi Maeda, Hitachinaka (JP); Yuji Nakayama, Hitachinaka (JP); Takashi Kozono, Hitachinaka (JP); and Koichi Yamaka, Hitachinaka (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Ibaraki (JP)
Appl. No. 17/430,439
Filed by Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/005745
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/175180, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-032810 (JP), filed on Feb. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0018418 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. F16F 9/54 (2006.01); F16F 9/18 (2006.01); F16F 9/32 (2006.01); B60G 13/08 (2006.01); B60G 17/08 (2006.01); F16F 9/38 (2006.01); F16F 9/46 (2006.01)
CPC F16F 9/54 (2013.01) [F16F 9/182 (2013.01); F16F 9/3221 (2013.01); F16F 9/3271 (2013.01); B60G 13/08 (2013.01); B60G 17/08 (2013.01); B60G 2202/24 (2013.01); B60G 2204/128 (2013.01); B60G 2204/129 (2013.01); B60G 2204/40 (2013.01); B60G 2206/41 (2013.01); B60G 2206/82092 (2013.01); B60G 2500/11 (2013.01); B60G 2800/162 (2013.01); B60G 2800/916 (2013.01); F16F 9/38 (2013.01); F16F 9/463 (2013.01); F16F 2222/12 (2013.01); F16F 2226/045 (2013.01); F16F 2228/066 (2013.01); F16F 2230/10 (2013.01); F16F 2230/18 (2013.01); F16F 2232/08 (2013.01); F16F 2234/02 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shock absorber, comprising:
a cylinder having a working fluid charged therein;
a piston inserted in the cylinder;
a rod having one end coupled to the piston and an other end extending to an outside of the cylinder;
a mounting eye fastened to the other end of the rod,
wherein the mounting eye, when viewed in a direction of the rod, includes a long portion and a short portion, which are orthogonal to each other;
an eye portion, which passes through the short portion side, and into which a bearing is to be inserted on an inner periphery side;
rectangular flange portions formed at both ends of the long portion on the rod side of the eye portion; and
an engagement protrusion portion formed on the rod side of the eye portion and configured to connect the eye portion and the rod to each other.