Patent 6883651 was granted and assigned to Showa Corporation on April, 2005 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A dust cover receiving structure of a hydraulic shock absorber in which a seat rubber is interposed between a suspension spring and a spring seat. The seat rubber has a spring receiving portion which is arranged between the suspension spring and the spring seat, a centering portion which is fitted to a damper tube and guides an end portion of a dust cover in such a manner as to align the dust cover with an axial center of the damper tube, and a cover receiving portion which is provided between the spring receiving portion and the centering portion, and which receives an end surface of the dust cover.