Patent ID: 7364143

Claim:
A suspension front fork, comprising: a leg including a lower tube with a closed bottom; an upper tube having a lower end thereof movably inserted into the lower tube and an adjustment assembly and a valve assembly connected to a top end of the upper tube, hydraulic oil filled in the lower tube and having an oil level in the upper tube, a chamber defined in the upper tube and above the oil level, the chamber filled with pressurized air; a damper assembly fixedly received in the upper tube and close to a bottom, the damper assembly located below the oil level and having an outlet defining a conically tapered inner periphery in a bottom thereof, and a control assembly movably received in the upper tube and the adjustment assembly connected to a top of the control assembly, the damper assembly connected to a lower end of the control assembly, an adjustment rod extending from the control assembly and a lower end of the adjustment rod movably inserted into the outlet, a gap defined between the inner periphery of the outlet and the lower end of the adjustment rod, a size of the gap being adjustable by axially moving the adjustment rod within the conically tapered inner periphery of the outlet.