Patent ID: 7296812

Claim:
A front fork of a motor vehicle comprising: a vehicle body side tube slidably inserted into an axle side tube; a hollow pipe provided in a standing manner in a bottom portion of the axle side tube; an oil chamber provided in an outer side of the hollow pipe being vertically divided into upper and lower sides by a piston arranged in a leading end portion of the vehicle body side tube, and an oil reservoir chamber communicated with said oil chamber being provided in an inner side of the hollow pipe; a partition wall member dividing said oil reservoir chamber into upper and lower sides rests on but is not joined to or integral with an upper portion of the hollow pipe, a flow path communicating the upper and lower oil reservoir chambers being formed in said partition wall member, and a compression side damping valve provided in said flow path; and a gas chamber in an upper portion of said oil reservoir chamber provided in an inner portion of the vehicle body side tube, a seal member slidably contacted with an inner periphery of the vehicle body side tube is provided in an outer periphery of said partition wall member, wherein said seal member prevents oil from leaking from the lower oil reservoir chamber.