Patent ID: 6910670

Claim:
A suspension rubber bushing of vertical mount type attachable in a suspension assembly with a bushing axis vertically oriented, comprising: an inner sleeve; an outer sleeve disposed about the inner sleeve with a radial spacing therebetween; and a rubber elastic body interposed between and elastically connecting the outer and inner sleeves, wherein the rubber elastic body, as viewed in vertical cross section in a first direction coincident with a direction of prizing force input, has a generally “V” shape overall where a pair of rubber legs, extend approximately straightly with a substantially constant axial wall thickness, from an axially medial portion of the inner sleeve to which proximal ends of the rubber legs are bonded, to opposite axial end portions of the outer sleeve to which distal ends of the rubber legs are bonded so that the pair of rubber legs gradually extend axially outwardly as they move away from the inner sleeve toward the outer sleeve so as to form depressed spaces between axially outer faces of the rubber legs and the inner sleeve to either axial side of the axially medial portion of the inner sleeve, and as viewed in vertical cross section in a second direction approximately orthogonal to the first direction, has a tapered shape overall where a main body rubber portion having an axial wall thickness thicker than the rubber legs and elastically linking the inner sleeve and outer sleeve while extending in the second direction, the main body rubber portion generally increasing in length in an axial direction as it moves away from the outer sleeve toward the inner sleeve.