Patent ID: 7314108

Claim:
A dust cover strike plate for use in a suspension mechanism including a shock absorber installed between a wheel side and a body side of an automobile with a cylinder thereof mounted on the wheel side and a piston rod thereof mounted on the body side, a coil spring disposed externally about the shock absorber with an upper end thereof supported by an upper spring support member disposed on the body side and an lower end thereof supported by a lower spring support member fixed on and projecting from an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder of the shock absorber while being inclined with respect to an center axis of the shock absorber, and a tubular dust cover disposed externally about the shock absorber with an upper end thereof supported by a fixing portion of the piston rod that is fixed to the body side so as to be arranged radially inward of the coil spring in a hanging fashion, the dust cover strike plate being adapted to be superimposed on and attached to an inner circumferential portion of an upper face of the lower spring support member that support the lower end of the coil spring, and comprising: an abutting face situated opposite to an axial lower end of the dust cover in an axial direction of the shock absorber, and having axial projection height from the lower spring support member that is varied in a circumferential direction of the shock absorber corresponding to an incline angle of the lower spring support member with respect to the center axis of the shock absorber so that the abutting face situated opposite to the axial lower end of the dust cover is arranged on a plane substantially perpendicular to the center axis of the shock absorber, wherein the axial lower end of the dust cover is brought into abutting contact with the abutting face during contracting motion of the absorber, wherein the dust cover strike plate comprises a solid abutment projection whose upper face provides the abutting face of the dust cover strike plate, and whose lower face is superposed in close contact with the upper face of the lower spring support member without a spacing therebetween in the axial direction except an inner peripheral edge thereof, and wherein a portion of the upper face of the lower spring support member, which is held in close contact with the lower face of the solid abutment projection is inclined with respect to the center axis of the shock absorber.