Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Front fork
- Patent Title (中): 前叉
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Application No.: US13762466Application Date: 2013-02-08
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Publication No.: US08864160B2Publication Date: 2014-10-21
- Inventor: Shigeki Awasa
- Applicant: Showa Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Saitama
- Assignee: Showa Corporation
- Current Assignee: Showa Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Saitama
- Agency: Babcock IP, PLLC
- Priority: JP2012-123926 20120531
- Main IPC: B62K21/02
- IPC: B62K21/02 ; F16F9/48 ; B62M25/08

Abstract:
A front fork in which a stroke amount of a spring leg that relies on an air spring can be detected precisely, wherein pressure leaks in the spring leg are detectable. The front fork has: a guide cylinder that extends from one of a vehicle body-side tube or an axle-side tube that make up a spring leg; a piston mounted to the leading end of a guide rod extending from the other one of the tubes; an inner airspring chamber in the interior of the guide cylinder; an outer airspring chamber, outward of the inner airspring chamber, in the interior of the vehicle body-side tube and the axle-side tube; first and second detectors for detecting pressure and temperature in the outer airspring chamber the inner airspring chamber, respectively; and stroke detection compensator for detecting a stroke amount on the basis of outputs of the first and second detectors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130320647A1 FRONT FORK Public/Granted day:2013-12-05
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