Patent ID: 7669867

Claim:
A shackle structure for supporting vehicle-rear-side end portions of a pair of left and right suspension leaf springs on a vehicle body via shackles, comprising: shackles including vehicle-body-side bushings supported on the vehicle body, and leaf-spring-side bushings supported on the leaf springs; wherein the vehicle-body-side bushings have rigidity center positions that are offset to further inside areas of a vehicle than rigidity center positions of the leaf-spring-side bushings, wherein at least one of the vehicle-body-side bushings and the leaf-spring-side bushings are split left and right in two halves; wherein both of the split bushings, divided in the two halves, are set to have rigidities different from each other to allow the rigidity center positions of the vehicle-body-side bushings to be offset to the further inside areas of the vehicle than the rigidity center positions of the leaf-spring-side bushings.