Motor vehicles – With means for promoting safety of vehicle – its occupant or... – Responsive to sensing of acceleration – deceleration – or tilt...
Patent
1980-09-22
1982-12-14
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
With means for promoting safety of vehicle, its occupant or...
Responsive to sensing of acceleration, deceleration, or tilt...
73652, 248550, 318648, B60G 1700
Patent
active
043633773
ABSTRACT:
An active seat suspension control system provides for continuous adjustment of the height of a tractor seat in response to movement of a mass within a vibrometer. The vertical position of the vibrometer mass is coupled to adjust one of a pair of potentiometers in a bridge circuit with the other potentiometer being adjusted by the actual height of the seat. During extreme movement of the tractor, the control system is disabled by an arrangement which includes a pair of limit switches at opposite extremes of vertical movement of the vibrometer mass and a circuit which effectively uncouples a source of pressurized fluid to a hydraulic cylinder coupled to adjust the vertical position of the seat. The control system is coupled through the tractor ignition switch to the tractor power supply so as to be disabled except when the ignition switch is turned on. Following disablement, the control system may be reset by a switch which simultaneously moves a variable resistor defining a gain control within the bridge circuit to a minimum gain position to provide minimum responsiveness upon startup. Additional variable resistors in the bridge circuit adjust the stiffness of the control system and the initial height of the seat. The vibrometer mass is suspended via a cable from the outer end of an arm extending laterally from the free end of a rod having an opposite fixed end so as to provide a desired spring suspension of the mass through twisting of the rod.
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Deere & Company
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Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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