Patent ID: 8857583

Claim:
A hydraulic shock absorber comprising: a piston chamber filled with oil provided in a cylinder housing including a head-side end wall and a rod-side end wall; a piston for shock absorption stored in the piston chamber to be movable in an axial direction of the piston chamber, a proximal end of a rod is connected to the piston, a distal end of the rod extends out of the cylinder housing through the rod-side end wall; and a rod packing interposed between an outer periphery of the rod and an inner periphery of the rod-side end wall, wherein the rod packing is disposed in a recessed step portion provided in the inner periphery of the rod-side end wall, and includes a first lip having an edge for scraping off an oil film attached to the outer periphery of the rod, a second lip for sealing at a position closer to the distal end of the rod than the first lip, and a ring-shaped grease holding member holding grease to be supplied to the outer periphery of the rod, and the grease holding member is fitted in a ring-shaped recessed groove provided in an inner periphery of a portion of the rod packing fitted in the recessed step portion so as to be positioned between the first lip and the second lip and is in contact with the outer periphery of the rod at a position between the first lip and the second lip.