Patent ID: 8016306

Claim:
A vehicular suspension comprising: a suspension member which moves upward and downward in association with bound and rebound, respectively, of a wheel; a suspension spring disposed between a vehicle body and the suspension member; a first support member and a second support member for supporting an end portion of the suspension spring located on a side toward the vehicle body and an end portion of the suspension spring located on a side toward the suspension member, respectively; and motion transmission means for varying an amount of elastic deformation of the suspension spring by converting a vertical motion of the suspension member to a relative motion between the first and second support members in a form of a change in distance between the first support member and the second support member and transmitting the relative motion to one of the first support member and the second support member, a position of the suspension member at the time of the wheel being positioned at a neutral position is taken as a standard position, and, in both upward motion and downward motion from the standard position of the suspension member, the motion transmission means continuously and nonlinearly increases the ratio of the amount of the relative motion to the amount of motion of the suspension member with the amount of motion of the suspension member.