Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1988-11-07
1989-12-19
Bertsch, Richard A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
180 41, 280 61, 280703, 280709, B10H 1706
Patent
active
048878405
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a suspension control apparatus for a vehicle having a plurality of suspension units each disposed between a road wheel and the body of a vehicle for effectively and quickly correcting any deviation of the vehicle height from a normal height level immediately upon finishing of active suspension control operations. Priority is determined for vehicle-height control and various active suspension control operations such as roll control, nose-dive and squat control, and pitching and bouncing control so that normal vehicle-height control is stopped or inhibited during active suspension control operations are being carried out, thereby preventing the traveling attitude of the vehicle from being made unstable. Also, a vehicle-height control determining time interval from the instant when active suspension control operations has been finished until the time when vehicle-height control is restarted is substantially reduced as compared with that required in the case when the vehicle is traveling in a normal attitude without any active suspension control operation, whereby any deviation of the vehicle height from a target height level can be quickly removed to make the actual vehicle height match with a target height level in a very short time immediately after the finishing of the active suspension control operations.
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Harara Mitsuhiko
Ohtagaki Shigeki
Takizawa Shozo
Tanaka Tadao
Wada Shunichi
Bertsch Richard A.
Mitsubishi Kenki Kabushiki Kaisha
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