Shock absorber

A shock absorber comprising:

• a cylinder in which a working fluid is sealed;
• a piston slidably inserted into the cylinder and configured to partition the inside of the cylinder into two chambers;
• a piston rod connected to the piston and extending to the outside of the cylinder;
• a plurality of paths through which the working fluid flows due to sliding movement of the piston;
• and
• a damping force generating mechanism installed at a portion of the path and configured to suppress a flow of the working fluid to generate a damping force,
• wherein the damping force generating mechanism comprises:
• a valve main body through which the path passes;
• an annular outer seat protruding to the valve main body;
• an inner seat protruding into the outer seat of the valve main body;
• an annular intermediate seat protruding to surround an opening section of the path between the outer seat and the inner seat of the valve main body;
• a disk support section protruding between the intermediate seat and the inner seat and continuously or discontinuously disposed in an annular shape;
• and
• a first disk placed on the outer seat, the inner seat, the intermediate seat and the disk support section, and
• wherein the disk support section has a tip height position in the protruding direction higher than that of the same position in the radial direction of the first disk while being pressed against the inner seat and placed on the intermediate seat, and
• the outer seat has a tip height position in the protruding direction higher than the same position in the radial direction of the first disk while being pressed against the inner seat and placed on the intermediate seat and the disk support section.

A shock absorber comprising:

• a cylinder in which a working fluid is sealed;
• a piston slidably inserted into the cylinder and configured to partition the inside of the cylinder into two chambers;
• a piston rod connected to the piston and extending to the outside of the cylinder;
• a plurality of paths through which the working fluid flows due to sliding movement of the piston;
• and
• a damping force generating mechanism installed at a portion of the path and configured to suppress a flow of the working fluid to generate a damping force,
• wherein the damping force generating mechanism comprises:
• a valve main body through which the path passes;
• an outer protrusion section protruding to the valve main body;
• an inner seat protruding into the outer protrusion section of the valve main body;
• an intermediate protrusion section configured to protrude between the outer protrusion section and the inner seat of the valve main body;
• a disk support section protruding between the intermediate protrusion section and the inner seat, having a tip height position in the protruding direction higher than that of the inner seat and lower than that of the intermediate protrusion section, and continuously or discontinuously disposed in an annular shape;
• and
• a disk placed to be capable of sitting on the outer protrusion section, the inner seat, the intermediate protrusion section and the disk support section,
• wherein, in a state in which the disk is pressed against the inner seat and placed on the outer protrusion section, the intermediate protrusion section and the disk support section, in the disk, a first bending section bent in a convex shape toward the valve main body side is formed between the inner seat and the disk support section, a second bending section bent in a convex shape toward a side separated from the valve main body is formed between the disk support section and the outer protrusion section, and the shock absorber sits on the intermediate protrusion section and the outer protrusion section.