Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1989-05-26
1990-12-11
Rice, Kenneth R.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
280710, B60G 1708, B61F 514
Patent
active
049764543
ABSTRACT:
A suspension device for vehicles between a spring-mounted passenger car and a chassis with at least one flexible spring and a damping element connected in parallel to the spring. The damping element is an active damping element with a controllable damping ratio, which features an hydraulic piston, a first bypass with constant throttle action and a second bypass with a throttle valve, whereby the throttle valve is connected to a controlling device, which opens or closes the throttle valve, as a function of the excursion rate of the flexible spring or of the lateral acceleration values of the passenger car and of the chassis.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3861696 (1975-01-01), Gustafsson
patent: 4154461 (1979-05-01), Schnittger
Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
Rice Kenneth R.
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