Suspension device for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakuya Kuribayashi
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Abstract
A vehicle suspension device, including: a carrier; a lower arm and an upper arm each of which is pivotally supported at one end portion thereof by a vehicle body, the other end portion of each of the lower arm and the upper arm being connected to the carrier; a rocking lever supported at one end portion thereof by the vehicle body so as to be rockable; a link one end portion of which is connected to the rocking lever and the other end portion of which is connected to one of the lower arm and the upper arm at a position between the one end portion and the other end portion of the one of the lower arm and the upper arm; and a shock absorber pivotally supported at one end portion thereof by the vehicle body, the other end portion thereof being connected to the rocking lever.
Claims7
A suspension device for a vehicle, comprising:
- a carrier rotatably holding a wheel;
- a lower arm and an upper arm each of which is pivotally supported at one end portion thereof by a body of the vehicle, the other end portion of each of the lower arm and the upper arm being connected to the carrier;
- a rocking lever supported at one end portion thereof by the body of the vehicle so as to be rockable;
- a link, having one end portion connected to the rocking lever and the other end portion connected to one of the lower arm and the upper arm at a position between the one end portion and the other end portion of the one of the lower arm and the upper arm;
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- a shock absorber pivotally supported at one end portion thereof by the body of the vehicle, the other end portion of the shock absorber being connected to the rocking lever,
- wherein the shock absorber is connected to the rocking lever at a position that is farther from the one end portion of the rocking lever than a position at which the one end portion of the link is connected to the rocking lever, and
- wherein the shock absorber expands in a bound state and contracts in a rebound state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.