A vehicle reinforcing member includes first and second pistons movable in an axial direction in a cylinder. An inside of the cylinder is sectioned into a gas chamber and a main liquid chamber by the first piston, and the main liquid chamber is sectioned into a first sub-liquid chamber and a second sub-liquid chamber by the second piston. Gas is sealed in the gas chamber, and liquid is sealed in the first and second sub-liquid chambers. A piston rod is coupled to the second piston. The cylinder and the piston rod are respectively coupled to two locations of a vehicle body. A communication path connects the first sub-liquid chamber to the second sub-liquid chamber. A moving amount of the liquid in the communication path is adjusted by an adjuster such that a moving load through the second piston is adjusted.

Provided are: a linear-motion damper which can avoid an increase in the size of a device configuration of an attachment target and broaden the type of attachment target to which the linear-motion damper is attachable; and a steering device including the linear-motion damper. A steering device (100) includes a linear-motion damper (120) between a rack bar (103) and a rack end (106). In the linear-motion damper (120), an inner chamber (121) is formed between an inner chamber forming body (130) and a socket main body (107) therein. The socket main body (107) is a shaft-shaped component forming the rack end (106) in the steering device (100). The socket main body (107) is slidably fitted in the inner chamber forming body (130). The inner chamber forming body (130) is formed in a tubular shape, and at an inner peripheral portion thereof, is formed with a circular ring-shaped flow control valve (140). The flow control valve (140) includes a first flow control valve (150), a second flow control valve (160), and a third flow control valve (170).

A pneumatic suspension system is provided. The pneumatic suspension system includes a pneumatic suspension component configured to be positioned within a fork tube in a front-end motorcycle suspension system. The pneumatic suspension component defines a single body housing having a pneumatic cylinder therein.

A suspension system for use with a motorcycle includes a single body having two pneumatic cylinders in axial alignment therein. The suspension system may be sold in a kit, and may be installed in an existing front wheel fork.

An apparatus is provided for vibration damping and isolation. The apparatus includes a housing having an inner surface defining a passage therethrough, a first bellows disposed within the housing passage, the first bellows having an outer surface and spaced apart from the housing inner surface to define a first chamber having a volume, and a second bellows disposed within the housing passage, the second bellows having an outer surface and spaced apart from the housing inner surface to define a second chamber having a volume. The apparatus further includes a restrictive flow passage in fluid communication with the first and second chambers, fluid disposed within the first chamber, the second chamber, and the restrictive flow passage, and a shaft positioned externally to the housing and coupled with the first bellows and the second bellows. The shaft is configured to selectively receive a force to thereby move the fluid through the restrictive flow passage to increase the first chamber volume and decrease the second chamber volume or to decrease the first chamber volume and increase the second chamber volume.

An apparatus is provided for vibration damping and isolation. The apparatus includes a housing having an inner surface defining a passage therethrough, a first bellows disposed within the housing passage, the first bellows having an outer surface and spaced apart from the housing inner surface to define a first chamber having a volume, and a second bellows disposed within the housing passage, the second bellows having an outer surface and spaced apart from the housing inner surface to define a second chamber having a volume. The apparatus further includes a restrictive flow passage in fluid communication with the first and second chambers, fluid disposed within the first chamber, the second chamber, and the restrictive flow passage, and a shaft positioned externally to the housing and coupled with the first bellows and the second bellows. The shaft is configured to selectively receive a force to thereby move the fluid through the restrictive flow passage to increase the first chamber volume and decrease the second chamber volume or to decrease the first chamber volume and increase the second chamber volume.

A shock isolation system includes at least one isolator configured to be removably secured to an exterior of a container and at least one foot in communication with the at least one isolator and configured to contact a support surface. The isolator has a first end proximate the support surface and an opposing second end distal from the support surface, and is configured to transition between a first, contracted position and a second, expanded position. In a stowed configuration of the system, the isolator is in the contracted position and a bottom end of the container is spaced apart from the foot at a first distance. In a deployed configuration of the system, the isolator is in the expanded position and a bottom end of the container is spaced apart from the foot at a second distance which is greater than the first distance.

A twin-tube damper includes an outer cylinder with a lower mounting cap at a lower end of the outer cylinder and an upper cap at an upper end of the outer cylinder. An inner cylinder is concentrically arranged within the outer cylinder between the upper cap and the lower mounting cap. A reserve reservoir is defined by the annular volume between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. A piston rod extends to a piston head within the inner cylinder. A base is seated in a lower end of the inner cylinder, wherein the base includes valves which allow hydraulic fluid to flow between the compression reservoir and the reserve reservoir during the extension stroke and the rebound stroke. At least one passage is defined through the upper cap in combination with a check valve that only allows one-way fluid transfer from the reserve reservoir to the rebound reservoir.

A twin-tube damper includes an outer cylinder with a lower mounting cap at a lower end of the outer cylinder and an upper cap at an upper end of the outer cylinder. An inner cylinder is concentrically arranged within the outer cylinder between the upper cap and the lower mounting cap. A reserve reservoir is defined by the annular volume between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. A piston rod extends to a piston head within the inner cylinder. A base is seated in a lower end of the inner cylinder, wherein the base includes valves which allow hydraulic fluid to flow between the compression reservoir and the reserve reservoir during the extension stroke and the rebound stroke. At least one passage is defined through the upper cap in combination with a check valve that only allows one-way fluid transfer from the reserve reservoir to the rebound reservoir.