Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1991-08-16
1993-02-16
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
280703, 36442601, B60G 1126, G06F 770
Patent
active
051864878
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle suspension comprises dampers changeable between low and high damping modes and normally operated in the low damping mode. A damper control stores a plurality of sets of reference numbers as a function of vehicle velocity, the reference numbers of each set representing limit values of throttle velocity for the low damping mode for a given transmission gear mode. The reference numbers of each set increase in value with increasing vehicle velocity in a continuously non-linear manner so as to compensate for the decreasing acceleration and body lift produced by a given throttle velocity as vehicle velocity increases. The control changes the damper from low to high damping during vehicle acceleration for a predetermined time when the throttle velocity exceeds a throttle velocity limit reference derived from the reference number corresponding to the vehicle velocity in the set corresponding to the selected transmission gear mode. The control further changes the dampers from low to high damping for a predetermined time when vehicle deceleration exceeds a reference, when a transmission shift occurs or when engine torque first exceeds a reference.
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Campbell Douglas C.
Ludwig Howard H.
Poirier David C.
Westphal Patrick J.
Wood Fred G.
Dickson Paul
Focarino Margaret A.
General Motors Corporation
Sigler Robert M.
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