Abstract: This assembly includes a plurality of stacked circular members, and a fixing pin that is disposed inside each of the circular members to arrange and integrate each of the circular members in an axial direction thereof. The fixing pin includes a shaft portion extending in the axial direction, a flange portion extending radially outward from one end side of the shaft portion, a recessed portion that is provided on an end face of the shaft portion on the other side and has a non-circular cross-section orthogonal to the axial direction, and one or a plurality of protruding portions that are provided on an outer circumferential portion of the shaft portion on the other end side and protrude radially outward from an inner circumferential surface of each of the circular members.

Abstract: A rebound control mechanism includes: a spring member located between a piston and a rod guide and provided on an outer periphery of a piston rod; and a spring receiver provided on the side of the rod guide and to which an upper portion of the spring member is attached. The spring receiver includes a tubular portion fixed between a cylinder and the rod guide, and a second flange portion provided at a lower end of the tubular portion and extending inward in a radial direction, and is configured to indirectly fix the upper end side of the spring member by the second flange portion.

Abstract: This assembly includes a plurality of stacked circular members, and a fixing pin that is disposed inside each of the circular members to arrange and integrate each of the circular members in an axial direction thereof. The fixing pin includes a shaft portion extending in the axial direction, a flange portion extending radially outward from one end side of the shaft portion, a recessed portion that is provided on an end face of the shaft portion on the other side and has a non-circular cross-section orthogonal to the axial direction, and one or a plurality of protruding portions that are provided on an outer circumferential portion of the shaft portion on the other end side and protrude radially outward from an inner circumferential surface of each of the circular members.

Abstract: An assembly of sheet materials in which a first sheet of material and a second sheet of material are disposed in an overlapping relationship, with a plurality of joint portions being formed therebetween by drawing an overlapping part of the first and second sheets of materials at a plurality of positions. The plurality of joint portions includes at least one first joint portion in which the first sheet of material is laterally extruded into the second sheet of material and at least one second joint portion in which the first sheet of material and the second sheet of material are in contact with each other in a cup-like surface configuration.

Abstract: The present invention provides an assembly of sheet materials in which a first sheet of material and a second sheet of material are disposed in an overlapping relationship, with a plurality of joint portions being formed therebetween by drawing an overlapping part of the first and second sheets of materials at a plurality of positions. The plurality of joint portions includes at least one first joint portion in which the first sheet of material is laterally extruded into the second sheet of material and at least one second joint portion in which the first sheet of material and the second sheet of material are in contact with each other in a cup-like surface configuration.

Abstract: The present invention provides an assembly of sheet materials in which a first sheet of material and a second sheet of material are disposed in an overlapping relationship, with a plurality of joint portions being formed therebetween by drawing an overlapping part of the first and second sheets of materials at a plurality of positions. The plurality of joint portions includes at least one first joint portion in which the first sheet of material is laterally extruded into the second sheet of material and at least one second joint portion in which the first sheet of material and the second sheet of material are in contact with each other in a cup-like surface configuration.

Abstract: A cylinder 3 is fitted with a piston 5. A pump rod 12 is fitted into a pump tube 11 in a piston rod 6 to form a pump chamber 13. An oil tank 17 is connected to the pump chamber 13 by a line 16 through a switching valve mechanism 18. An accumulator tank 20 is connected to the cylinder 3 by a line 19 through a switching valve 21. Normally, the switching valve 21 is closed, and a switching valve 26 is set to a position (a) in which the fluid flows to the pump chamber through a check value 27. By using the pump chamber 13 and check valves 23 and 27, a hydraulic fluid is supplied from the oil tank 17 to the accumulator tank 20 by the extension and contraction of the piston rod 6, thereby accumulating the pressurized hydraulic fluid in the accumulator tank 20. By opening the switching valve 21, the cylinder 3 is pressurized to raise the vehicle height.

Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorber including a cylinder having a hydraulic fluid sealed therein, a reservoir connected to the cylinder so that a pressure is always transmitted between the cylinder and the reservoir and a self-pumping mechanism provided between the cylinder and an oil tank to effect feeding and discharge of the hydraulic fluid between the oil tank and the cylinder by extension and contraction of a piston rod, to thereby control a length of extension of the piston rod. The cylinder is connected to a pressure accumulating mechanism having a pressure accumulating tank and a switching valve mechanism. The switching valve mechanism is adapted to be switched to accumulate a pressure in the pressure accumulating tank or apply a pressure accumulated in the pressure accumulating tank to the cylinder.

Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorber has a case that includes an oil chamber, a cylinder and a reservoir chamber inside the case. A piston connected to a piston rod is fitted into the cylinder. A pump rod is fitted into a pump tube located inside the piston rod for forming a pump chamber. The pump chamber is communicated with an oil chamber through an oil passage and with a cylinder upper chamber through another oil passage. The motion of the pump rod caused by extension and retraction of the piston rod allows oil to flow from the oil chamber to the pump chamber and then to the cylinder upper chamber for extending the piston rod. When a vehicle height is increased to a normal height, cut-outs formed in the pump rod serve to communicate the pump chamber with the cylinder upper chamber for stopping the extension of the piston rod. When it becomes higher than the normal height, an orifice passage serves to relieve oil of the cylinder upper chamber to the oil chamber for lowering the vehicle height.

Abstract: A piston connected to a piston rod is slidably mounted in a cylinder, and a lower cylinder chamber is connected to a reservoir. An extension side passage for communicating an upper cylinder chamber with the lower cylinder chamber and a compression side passage for communicating the cylinder chamber with the reservoir are provided with disc valves, respectively, behind which extension side and compression side back pressure chambers are formed. The extension side back pressure chamber is communicated with the upper and lower cylinder chambers through a fixed orifice and ports. The compression side back pressure chamber is communicated with the lower cylinder chamber and the reservoir through a fixed orifice and ports. By rotating a shutter, flow areas of the ports are changed to adjust orifice features and pressures in the extension side and compression side back pressure chambers are changed to adjust valve features.