Vehicle suspension system for a steerable drive wheel

Details Vehicle suspension system for a steerable drive wheel Vehicle suspension system for a steerable drive wheel

1993-12-28

1996-09-24

Young, Lee

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

280692, B60G 300

Patent

active

055583601

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle suspension system for a steerable wheel directed to such objects as to improve handling safety by reducing the height of a roll center and the variation ratio of the height of a roll center with imaginary links, to enhance free layout degree by applying multi-links and setting up the changement of kingpin, camber, and tread independently in accordance with the arrangement of links, and to ensure a maximum effective volume of an engine room by minimizing a space occupied by a suspension system, wherein a plurality of links are disposed so that an intersecting point of an imaginary line connecting a pivot joint where a connecting arm is connected to a wheel carrier to an instantaneous center of the connecting arm with respect to a vehicle body with an imaginary line connecting a pivot joint to a hinge point of a lower control arm becomes an instantaneous center of the wheel with respect to the vehicle body.

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patent: 3161419 (1964-12-01), Schaaf
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patent: 5257801 (1993-11-01), Matsuzawa et al.
patent: 5284353 (1994-02-01), Shinji et al.

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