Hydraulic damping cartridge

1. A hydraulic damping cartridge for a suspension fork, with a rebound stage damping unit and a compression stage damping unit as well as a compensating volume for a damping medium, wherein the compression stage damping unit is a 3-way unit with a high-speed flow path, a mid-speed flow path, and a low-speed flow path for said damping medium constituting a high-speed-, a mid-speed- and a low-speed-mode, wherein channels of the high-speed and mid-speed compression stages open at a front face of a compression stage main body and wherein the opening areas of said channels are covered by a mid-speed ring and a lift plate, respectively;

and wherein the lift plate encompasses the mid-speed ring.

2. The damping cartridge of claim 1 , wherein the compensating volume is constrained with a tube bladder, which is axially offset to the rebound stage damping unit adjoining the area of the compression stage damping unit.

3. The damping cartridge of claim 2 , wherein the tube bladder at least partially encompasses the compression stage damping unit.

4. The damping cartridge of claim 3 , wherein the tube bladder is fixed to the compression stage damping unit by means of lock-rings.

5. The damping cartridge of claim 4 , wherein coupling elements which can be interlocked with the lock-rings and between which the tube bladder extends are envisaged on the compression stage side.

6. The damping cartridge of claim 4 , wherein the lock-rings are designed with a bayonet fitting.

7. The damping cartridge of claim 1 , wherein the three flow paths are constrained with a low-speed choke valve cross section, a mid-speed choke valve cross section and a high-speed choke valve cross section respectively whose flow cross section is controlled by dedicated valve elements.

8. The damping cartridge of claim 7 , wherein shim elements are utilised to one of:

substantially close off opening cross sections without pre-loading; and

to pressurize closing elements dedicated to the respective opening cross section.

9. The damping cartridge of claim 8 , wherein said shim element is one of the high-speed lift plate and the mid-speed ring.

10. The damping cartridge of claim 7 , wherein the valve elements have spring pre-loaded valve bodies.

11. The damping cartridge of claim 1 , wherein the damping cartridge is constructed modularly and the rebound stage damping unit and the compression stage damping unit are axially offset.

12. The damping cartridge of claim 1 , wherein the rebound stage damping unit is designed as one of a one-way unit and a two-way unit.