Patent ID: 11865886
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B  F

Claim 16:
17. A suspension to be applied to a vehicle, the suspension comprising:
a coil spring configured to elastically receive vertical movement of a wheel relative to a vehicle body of the vehicle;
a shock absorber configured to damp the vertical movement;
a rubber sheet including an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper surface including a groove including a first end and a second end, the groove being in contact with the coil spring over a predetermined distance along a wire of the coil spring from an end of the wire of the coil spring to a point of separation of the coil spring, the first end of the groove being in contact with the end of the wire of the coil spring, the second end of the groove being in contact with the point of separation of the coil spring; and
a spring seat fixed to an outer cylinder of the shock absorber and including an upper surface that is in contact with a lower surface of a grooved region of the rubber sheet in which the groove is formed,
wherein the grooved region of the rubber sheet includes first, second and third thinned-wall parts located at separate locations along a longitudinal direction of the groove,
wherein a thickness of the grooved region of the rubber sheet at the first, second and third thinned-wall parts is less than a thickness of the grooved region of the rubber sheet outside the first, second and third thinned-wall parts, the thickness of the grooved region of the rubber sheet is a distance from a bottom of the groove to the lower surface of the grooved region of the rubber sheet,
wherein the first thinned-wall part is located below the end of the wire of the coil spring,
wherein the second thinned-wall part is located closer to the first thinned-wall part than the second end of the groove in the longitudinal direction of the groove, and
wherein the third thinned-wall part is located between the first and second thinned-wall parts in the longitudinal direction of the groove.