In general terms, this invention provides a twin-tube damper having an outer and inner tube creating a chamber between the inner and outer tubes for oil. A piston and rod move within the inner tube in response to driving conditions. A base valve assembly is positioned between the inner tube and…
A shock absorber for a vehicle including a pressure tube defining a fluid chamber, a piston body disposed within the fluid chamber, and a valve assembly. The piston body divides the fluid chamber into an upper working chamber and a lower working chamber. The piston body defines a first bleed…
A shock absorber for a vehicle including a pressure tube, a reserve tube, a piston assembly, and a base valve assembly. The base valve assembly has a valve body including a rebound flow passage, a first circumferential land surrounding the rebound flow passage, a second circumferential land…
An improved oil seal cap for use in a shock absorber for a vehicle including an end wall, and aperture extending through the end wall, and a sidewall extending away from the sidewall in a first direction. The end wall includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion is…
A suspension system for a vehicle is provided. A linear regenerative suspension system that converts mechanical energy into storable electrical energy is also provided. The system utilizes pistons, one on each side of the vehicle, engaged with a vehicle body at a distal end and having a fluid…
A hydraulic port protection plug for insertion into a hydraulic port in a shock absorber assembly, where the hydraulic port protection plug comprises a cap portion with a disc-shaped end wall and a tubular body that extends from the cap portion to define an open-ended cavity. The open-ended cavity…
This shock absorber includes an outer cylinder, and a bracket having a pair of extension parts. The outer cylinder has an opening and into which the inner cylinder is inserted and fixed. The pair of extension parts extend outward in a radial direction of the outer cylinder from different positions…
A shock absorber includes a cylinder, a piston that partitions the cylinder into an expansion-side chamber and a contraction-side chamber, a piston rod connected to the piston, a damping passage that allows the expansion-side chamber to communicate with the contraction-side chamber, a pressure…
A shock absorber includes ; a free piston (9) that partitions the compression chamber (R3) into an expansion-side compression chamber (7) and a contraction-side compression chamber (8); a spring member (10) configured to generate a biasing force for the free piston (9); an expansion-side flow…
A damping force generation device (10) for a vehicle includes a shock absorber (16) including a cylinder (12) and a piston (14). The shock absorber is coupled to a vehicle body (22), a wheel carrier (26), and the like at a rod part (14R) of the piston and the cylinder, respectively, and is…
A shock absorber includes at least one of an expansion-side sensitive unit and a contraction-side sensitive unit. The expansion-side sensitive unit has an expansion-side actuating chamber (E) that communicates with an expansion-side chamber and a contraction-side chamber, and an expansion-side free…
A shock absorber having an inner assembly, a composite base assembly formed of a composite material and a closure insert formed of a metal material is disclosed. The inner assembly includes a pressure tube extending between first and second ends, a rod guide disposed adjacent to the first end, a…
A bicycle element comprises the bicycle component (10) as well as a second bicycle component (12). The two bicycle components (10, 12) are pivotally connected to one another via a pivot element (14). A damping fluid is provided in the pivot element (14) for damping pivoting movements. By means of a…
A hydraulic shock absorber includes a cylinder connected to a wheel side, a liquid chamber formed in the cylinder and filled with an operating liquid, an annular rod guide fixed to the cylinder and closing a vehicle body side of the liquid chamber, a piston rod connected to the vehicle body side…
A shock absorber includes a suction passage (3) configured to permit only a flow from a reservoir (R) toward a compression-side chamber (R2), a rectification passage (4) configured to permit only a flow from the compression-side chamber (R2) toward a extension-side chamber (R1), and a variable…
A shock absorber includes a suction passage (3) that only allows a flow from a reservoir (R) towards a pressure side chamber (R2), a rectifying passage (4) that only allows a flow from the pressure side chamber (R2) towards an expansion side chamber (R1), and a damping force variable valve (V) that…
A damping valve includes a valve seat member provided with a port, a valve body that opens or closes the port, a tubular spool that abuts on a side of the valve body opposite to the valve seat member, a spool holding member that has an outer circumference where the spool is mounted movably along an…
It is herein described a shock absorber for suspension system and its improved hydraulic stop, said shock absorber comprising a tubular shell, a tubular body (20) and an axially movable reciprocating rod provided with an annular elastomeric stroke limiter member. Said stroke limiter member (6)…
A shock absorber includes a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an expansion-side passage that allows a fluid to flow only from an expansion-side chamber toward a contraction-side chamber, a contraction-side passage that allows the fluid to flow only from the contraction-side chamber toward the…
A suspension device includes a partition wall body which partitions the outside of a hollow pipe into a working chamber and a reservoir first chamber, a first piston which partitions the working chamber into an extension-side first chamber and a contraction-side first chamber, a first flow passage…
A method and apparatus are disclosed for cooling damping fluid in a vehicle suspension damper unit. A damping unit (100) includes a piston (105) mounted in a fluid cylinder (102). A bypass fluid (256) circuit having an integrated cooling assembly (200) disposed therein is fluidly coupled to the…
A mechanical suspension system, for example for motor vehicles, comprises a pair of independent arms (2) which are substantially coplanar and each of which has one end pivotably connected to a supporting structure (4). The two arms (2) of the suspension are brought back towards their resting…