Nose dive preventing front suspension assembly
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorUnkoo Lee
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Abstract
A front suspension for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a knuckle joined to a wheel; a pair of upper and lower control arms connecting the knuckle to a car body; an absorbing member formed by unifying an impact absorber and a spring, and longitudinally arranged at a rear portion of a front bumper; an extension bar connected to a rear end portion of a damper rod of the impact absorber; a rotatable arm formed with a horizontal portion having a slider therein, a vertical portion being connected to a rear end portion of the extension bar and a connection portion of the vertical portion and the horizontal portion fixed on the car body at a rear upper portion of the wheel by a pivot member.
Claims4
A front suspension for a vehicle, comprising:
- a pair of upper and a pair of lower control arms connecting a knuckle joined to a wheel of a car body:
- absorbing means, having a shock absorber, an elastic member and a damper rod connected to the shock absorber, said absorbing means being disposed on a rear portion of a front bumper, for absorbing an impact energy of the front bumper;
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- a rotatable arm and a extension bar which connect the knuckle to the absorbing means to prevent a front portion of the wheel from being pushed down and for absorbing an impact energy of the wheel from a road,
- said rotatable arm having a horizontal portion, a vertical portion, and a connecting portion of the horizontal and vertical portion pivotally connected to the car body,
- said horizontal portion being connected to the knuckle, said vertical portion being connected to the extension bar, and
- an end portion of said extension bar being connected to the damper rod of said absorbing means,
- wherein the knuckle includes a first hinge point connected to a jointed portion of the pair of upper control arms, second and third hinge points respectively connected to each one of the pair of lower control arms, a fourth hinge point connected to a tie rod, and a fifth hinge point connected to said rotatable slider which is movably disposed on the horizontal portion of said rotatable arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.