Rear suspension for three-wheeled car

• US 8,727,057 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2012
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Jin-Yeon, Lee, Jae-Kil, Lee, Sang-Hoon
• Primary Examiner(s): ENGLISH, JAMES A
• Application Number:
  US13/681,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20130161920A1
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: 180/210, 180/215, 280/124.128, 280/124.129, 280/124.1, 280/124.117, 280/124.121, 280/124.136, 280/93.502, 280/93.51
• US Class Current: 180/210
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2200/18 Multilink suspensions, e.g. elastokinematic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2200/445 Self-steered wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2300/122 Trikes
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2300/45 Rolling frame vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 3/207 the arms being essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 25/04 for mounting axles resiliently on cycle frame or fork for sidecars, forecars or the like B62K27/06
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 5/05 characterised by a single rear wheel

Abstract

A rear suspension of a three-wheeled car with two front wheels and one rear wheel in the car frame may include a wheel center connected to the rotation of axis of the rear wheel, an upper link with one side connected to the car body and the other to a wheel center, and a lower link with one side connected to the car body below the upper link and the other side to a wheel center below the upper link, wherein, the upper link and the lower link may be installed so that their connection point with the car body may be located in a higher altitude than their connection point with the wheel center, and wherein, the angle of inclination from the ground may be greater for the lower link than for the upper link.

Claims

1. A rear suspension of a three-wheeled car with two front wheels and one rear wheel in a car frame comprises:

a wheel center to which a rotation axis of the one rear wheel is rotatably coupled;

an upper link with one end pivotally connected to a car body and the other end pivotally connected to one portion of the wheel center; and

a lower link with one end pivotally connected to the car body below the one end of the upper link and the other end pivotally connected to the other portion of the wheel center below the other end of the upper link;

wherein, the upper link and the lower link are installed to the car body so that the one end of the upper link is positioned higher than the other end thereof, and the one end of the lower link is positioned higher than the other end thereof;

wherein an angle of inclination from the ground between the one end and the other end of the lower link is greater than an angle of inclination from the ground between the one end and the other end of the upper link;

wherein the upper link includes a first upper link pivotally connected to one lateral side of the wheel center and a second upper link pivotally connected to the other lateral side of the wheel center to be symmetric to the first upper link, the first upper link and the second upper link being installed to perform a four-bar linkage movement with the car body and the rear wheel;

wherein the lower link includes a first lower link pivotally connected to one lateral side of the wheel center and a second lower link pivotally connected to the other lateral side of the wheel center to be symmetric to the first lower link, the first lower link and the second lower link being installed to perform a four-bar linkage movement with the car body and the rear wheel; and

wherein a first instantaneous center situated on intersection of extensions of the first upper link and the second upper link, and a second instantaneous center situated on intersection of extensions of the first lower link and the second lower link, are located to the rear of the rotation axis of the rear wheel.

2. The rear suspension of claim 1, wherein an angle formed between the first and second upper links is smaller than an angle formed between the first and second lower links.

3. The rear suspension of claim 1, wherein the first instantaneous center of the first and second upper links is located to the rear of the second instantaneous center of the first and second lower links.

4. The rear suspension of claim 1,

wherein the wheel center is pivotally installed on the car body through a trailing link, and

wherein the trail link is situated between the upper link and the lower link to form an axis of symmetry between the first upper link, the second upper link, the first lower link and the second lower link.