Motor vehicles – Compensating devices
Patent
1996-11-13
1999-04-27
Rice, Kenneth R.
Motor vehicles
Compensating devices
180253, 280552, B60K 1716
Patent
active
058969411
ABSTRACT:
A suspension system for the steered wheels of a vehicle include knuckles, the lower portions of which are pivotally supported at tip ends of a lower arm and a radius rod through two ball joints. Each of the steered wheels is steered about a phantom king pin axis passing through an intersection a of extensions of the lower arm and the radius rod so that, during clockwise turning of the vehicle, the point a of an outer wheel during turning of the vehicle is little moved, but the point a of an inner wheel during turning of the vehicle is moved inwards of a vehicle body through a distance .alpha..sub.R whereby a distance between a ground point of the inner wheel and the phantom king pin axis is larger than a distance between a ground point of the outer wheel and the phantom king pin axis and, hence, left and right steering moments generated by driving forces of the left and right steered wheels are countervailed with each other, whereby the generation of unnecessary steering moments is prevented as a whole.
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Kajiwara Hajime
Shibahata Yasuji
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Rice Kenneth R.
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