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Vehicle suspension apparatus
Assignee: Mitsubishi Motors Corp
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Filing: 1988-08-30
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Granted: 1989-08-01
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Expires: 2008-08-30
Abstract
Abstract A vehicle suspension apparatus having a fluid spring chamber provided for each wheel and inserted between the wheel and a vehicle body, a fluid supply unit for supplying a fluid to each fluid spring chamber through a supply valve, a fluid exhaust unit for exhausting the fluid from each fluid spring chamber through an exhaust valve, a roll amount sensor for detecting a roll amount of the vehicle body, and a roll controller for setting a control target corresponding to the roll amount detected by the roll amount sensor and executing roll control in which the supply valves corresponding to the fluid spring chambers at a contracting side with respect to a direction of roll generated in the vehicle body and the exhaust valves corresponding to the fluid spring chambers at an expanding side are opened in accordance with the control target, includes a pressure sensor for detecting an internal pressures in the fluid spring chamber at one of front and rear sides, and an internal pressure relationship memory for storing a mutual relationship between the internal pressure in the fluid spring chambers at the front and rear sides, wherein the control unit calculates control targets at the front and rear sides with reference to said mutual relationship of said internal pressure relationship memory on the basis of the internal pressure detected by the pressure sensor and executes roll control in accordance with the control targets, thereby supplying/exhausting the fluid in/from the fluid spring chambers at the front and rear sides.
Inventors
- 👤 Tadao Tanaka
- 👤 Mitsuhiko Harara
- 👤 Yasutaka Taniguchi
- 👤 Shozo Takizawa
- 👤 Minoru Tatemoto
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-31 05:26
CPC Classifications
B; B60; B60G; B60G17/00; B60G17/02; B60G17/04; B60G17/052; B60G17/0523; B60G21/00; B60G17/015; B60G17/016; B60G17/0162; B60G2202/00; B60G2202/40; B60G2202/41; B60G2204/00; B60G2204/80; B60G2204/81; B60G2400/00; B60G2400/10; B60G2400/104; B60G2400/20; B60G2400/204; B60G2400/25; B60G2400/252; B60G2400/30; B60G2400/34; B60G2400/40; B60G2400/44; B60G2400/50; B60G2400/51; B60G2400/512; B60G2400/5122; B60G2500/00; B60G2500/10; B60G2500/20; B60G2500/22; B60G2600/00; B60G2600/02; B60G2600/70; B60G2800/00; B60G2800/01; B60G2800/012; B60G2800/24
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
252 words
A vehicle suspension apparatus having a fluid spring chamber provided for each wheel and inserted between the wheel and a vehicle body, fluid supply means for supplying a fluid to said fluid spring chambers through supply valve means, fluid exhaust means for exhausting the fluid from said fluid spring chambers through exhaust valve means, roll amount detecting means for detecting a roll amount of said vehicle body, and roll control means for setting a control target corresponding to the roll amount detected by said roll amount detecting means and executing roll control in which said supply valve means corresponding to said fluid spring chambers at a contracting side with respect to a direction of roll generated in said vehicle body and said exhaust valve means corresponding to said fluid spring chambers at an expanding side are opened in accordance with the control target, comprising: pressure detecting means for detecting an internal pressure in said fluid spring chamber at one of front and rear sides; and internal pressure relationship memory means for storing a mutual relationship between the internal pressures in said fluid spring chambers at the front and rear sides, wherein said control means calculates control targets at the front and rear sides with reference to said mutual relationship said internal pressure relationship memory on the basis of the internal pressure detected by said pressure detecting means and executes roll control in accordance with the control targets, thereby supplying/exhausting the fluid in/from said fluid spring chambers at the front and rear sides.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
252 words
A vehicle suspension apparatus having a fluid spring chamber provided for each wheel and inserted between the wheel and a vehicle body, fluid supply means for supplying a fluid to said fluid spring chambers through supply valve means, fluid exhaust means for exhausting the fluid from said fluid spring chambers through exhaust valve means, roll amount detecting means for detecting a roll amount of said vehicle body, and roll control means for setting a control target corresponding to the roll amount detected by said roll amount detecting means and executing roll control in which said supply valve means corresponding to said fluid spring chambers at a contracting side with respect to a direction of roll generated in said vehicle body and said exhaust valve means corresponding to said fluid spring chambers at an expanding side are opened in accordance with the control target, comprising: pressure detecting means for detecting an internal pressure in said fluid spring chamber at one of front and rear sides; and internal pressure relationship memory means for storing a mutual relationship between the internal pressures in said fluid spring chambers at the front and rear sides, wherein said control means calculates control targets at the front and rear sides with reference to said mutual relationship said internal pressure relationship memory on the basis of the internal pressure detected by said pressure detecting means and executes roll control in accordance with the control targets, thereby supplying/exhausting the fluid in/from said fluid spring chambers at the front and rear sides.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
70 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising control target adjusting means for adjusting the control target at the front and rear sides to be higher in accordance with the internal pressure in said fluid spring chamber, wherein said roll control means adjusts the control targets at the front and rear sides by said control target adjusting means and executes the roll control in accordance with the adjusted control targets.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
94 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising vehicle height adjusting means, having a plurality of target vehicle height setting means capable of setting a plurality of target vehicle heights, for controlling said supply valve means and said exhaust valve means so as to adjust a vehicle height to the set target vehicle height, wherein said internal pressure relationship memory means stores a mutual relationship between the internal pressures in said fluid spring chambers at the front side and rear sides for each target vehicle height set by said target vehicle height setting means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
59 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said roll detecting means has vehicle velocity detecting means for detecting a vehicle velocity and steering angular velocity detecting means for detecting a steering angular velocity, and each of said plurality of memory means stores a plurality of control targets corresponding to values of the vehicle velocity and the steering angular velocity.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said roll amount detecting means has vehicle velocity detecting means for detecting a vehicle velocity and acceleration detecting means for detecting a lateral acceleration acting on said vehicle body, and each of said plurality of memory means stores a plurality of control targets corresponding to values of the vehicle velocity and the lateral acceleration degree.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
74 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in roll control, said roll control means calculates a control time on the basis of the control target and opens said supply valve means corresponding to said fluid spring chambers at a contracting side with respect to a direction of roll generated in said vehicle body and said exhaust valve means corresponding to said fluid spring chamber at an expanding side for only the calculated control time.
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