Regulator for vehicle height

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE: To regulate the vehicle height irrespective of whether an ignition switch of a vehicle is ON or OFF and to maintain a constantly fixed vehicle height by using an ON signal of a switch consisting of mechanical contact points as a vehicle- height detection signal. CONSTITUTION: When the vehicle is in a normal position, switches 11, 12 having mechanical contact points as the vehicle-height sensor constituting power control circuits 13, 14 are OFF, a voltage is fed from a battery 10 to amplifiers 3, 8 and no dark current flows in the amplifiers 3, 8. When the vechile height is decreased or increased, either one of the switches 11, 12 is turned ON, so that the vehicle- height detection signal S 1 or S 2 is fed into the amplifier 3 or 8 and amplified, forming a vehicle-height up signal UP or a vehicle-height down signal DOWN. Such a signal as above drives an discharge solenoid 5 or 9 so as to feed a gas into a shock absorber 6 or to discharge the gas from the latter 6, thereby increasing or decreasing the vehicle height to a fixed level. COPYRIGHT: (C)1981,JPO&Japio

Inventors

• 👤 Tetsuo Senoo

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