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Active suspension system with enhanced stability
Assignee: Nissan Motor Co Ltd
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Filing: 1990-07-31
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Granted: 1991-08-06
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Expires: 2010-07-31
Abstract
Abstract An active suspension system employs a vertical acceleration sensor for monitoring vertical acceleration exerted on the vehicular body at an orientation where a suspension system is provided, to produce a vertical acceleration indicative signal. The system derives a vertical displacement speed on the basis of the vertical acceleration indicative signal. A suspension control command for stabilizing vertical vibration is thus derived on the basis of the vertical motion speed and a given gain. In order to facilitate satisfactorily high cornering stability, the system varies the gain for deriving the suspension control command depending upon a lateral acceleration exerted on the vehicular body.
Inventors
- 👤 Yuji Okuyama
- 👤 Kunio Katada
- 👤 Katsuya Kii
- 👤 Takashi Yonezawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-05 12:02
CPC Classifications
B; B60; B60G; B60G17/00; B60G17/015; B60G17/016; B60G2202/00; B60G2202/10; B60G2202/15; B60G2202/154; B60G2204/00; B60G2204/80; B60G2400/00; B60G2400/10; B60G2400/102; B60G2400/104; B60G2400/106; B60G2400/20; B60G2400/202; B60G2400/204; B60G2400/25; B60G2400/252; B60G2500/00; B60G2500/30; B60G2800/00; B60G2800/01; B60G2800/012; B60G2800/014
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
202 words
An active suspension system comprising: a suspension system disposed between a vehicular body and a road wheel, said suspension system including a variable pressure working chamber for generating damping force against relative displacement between the vehicular body and the road wheel; a hydraulic system connected to said working chamber for adjusting fluid pressure therein, said hydraulic system including a pressure control valve for controlling introduction and draining of pressurized fluid in said working chamber for adjusting the fluid pressure in said working chamber; a first sensor for monitoring vertical acceleration at said suspension system for producing a first acceleration indicative data; a second sensor for monitoring acceleration exerted in a direction transverse to vertical axis for producing a second acceleration indicative data; and a control means for receiving said first acceleration indicative data for deriving a vertical speed indicative data, deriving a control gain on the basis of said second acceleration indicative data, deriving a desired fluid pressure in said working chamber on the basis of said vertical speed indicative data and said control gain, and deriving a control signal for controlling position of said pressure control valve for adjusting the fluid pressure in said working chamber toward said desired fluid pressure.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
202 words
An active suspension system comprising: a suspension system disposed between a vehicular body and a road wheel, said suspension system including a variable pressure working chamber for generating damping force against relative displacement between the vehicular body and the road wheel; a hydraulic system connected to said working chamber for adjusting fluid pressure therein, said hydraulic system including a pressure control valve for controlling introduction and draining of pressurized fluid in said working chamber for adjusting the fluid pressure in said working chamber; a first sensor for monitoring vertical acceleration at said suspension system for producing a first acceleration indicative data; a second sensor for monitoring acceleration exerted in a direction transverse to vertical axis for producing a second acceleration indicative data; and a control means for receiving said first acceleration indicative data for deriving a vertical speed indicative data, deriving a control gain on the basis of said second acceleration indicative data, deriving a desired fluid pressure in said working chamber on the basis of said vertical speed indicative data and said control gain, and deriving a control signal for controlling position of said pressure control valve for adjusting the fluid pressure in said working chamber toward said desired fluid pressure.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said second sensor monitors a lateral acceleration for producing said second acceleration indicative data representative thereof.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
26 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said control means increases said control gain according to increasing of said second acceleration signal.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
36 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 3, wherein said control means maintains said control gain constant at a predetermined minimum value when said second acceleration signal is maintained smaller than a predetermined value.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
51 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 3, which further comprises a third sensor for monitoring vehicle speed to produce a vehicle speed data, and said control means varies increasing rate of said control gain according to increasing of said second acceleration data, depending upon said vehicle speed data.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
38 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 5, wherein said control means is set a plurality of variation characteristics of said control gain and selects one of the variation characteristics depending upon the vehicle speed data.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
195 words
An active suspension system comprising: a suspension system disposed between a vehicular body and a road wheel, said suspension system including a variable pressure working chamber for generating damping force against relative displacement between the vehicular body and the road wheel; a hydraulic system connected to said working chamber for adjusting fluid pressure therein, said hydraulic system including a pressure control valve for controlling introduction and draining of pressurized fluid in said working chamber for adjusting the fluid pressure in said working chamber; a first sensor for monitoring vertical acceleration at said suspension system for producing a first acceleration indicative data; a second sensor for monitoring acceleration exerted in a direction transverse to vertical axis for producing a second acceleration indicative data; and a control means for receiving said first acceleration indicative data for deriving a vertical speed indicative data, deriving a control gain on the basis of said second acceleration indicative data, deriving a vertical motion dependent pressure adjusting value representative of offset of pressure from a predetermined neutral pressure, and deriving a control signal for controlling position of said pressure control valve on the basis of said vertical motion dependent pressure adjusting value.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
195 words
An active suspension system comprising: a suspension system disposed between a vehicular body and a road wheel, said suspension system including a variable pressure working chamber for generating damping force against relative displacement between the vehicular body and the road wheel; a hydraulic system connected to said working chamber for adjusting fluid pressure therein, said hydraulic system including a pressure control valve for controlling introduction and draining of pressurized fluid in said working chamber for adjusting the fluid pressure in said working chamber; a first sensor for monitoring vertical acceleration at said suspension system for producing a first acceleration indicative data; a second sensor for monitoring acceleration exerted in a direction transverse to vertical axis for producing a second acceleration indicative data; and a control means for receiving said first acceleration indicative data for deriving a vertical speed indicative data, deriving a control gain on the basis of said second acceleration indicative data, deriving a vertical motion dependent pressure adjusting value representative of offset of pressure from a predetermined neutral pressure, and deriving a control signal for controlling position of said pressure control valve on the basis of said vertical motion dependent pressure adjusting value.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
49 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said control means further deriving an attitude change dependent pressure adjusting value and derives said control signal on the basis of sum of said vertical motion dependent pressure adjusting value and said attitude change dependent pressure adjusting value.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
47 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 8, wherein said second sensor monitors a lateral acceleration for producing said second acceleration indicative data representative thereof, and said control means derives a first attitude change dependent pressure adjusting value depending upon the magnitude of lateral acceleration.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
78 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 9, which further comprises a third sensor for monitoring longitudinal acceleration for producing a third acceleration indicative data, said control means derives a second attitude change dependent pressure adjusting value depending upon longitudinal acceleration, and said control signal on the basis of a sum of said vertical motion dependent pressure adjusting value, said first attitude change dependent pressure adjusting value and said second attitude change dependent pressure adjusting value.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
27 words
An active suspension control system as set forth in claim 9, wherein said control means increases said control gain according to increasing of said second acceleration data.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
36 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 11, wherein said control means maintains said control gain constant at a predetermined minimum value when said second acceleration signal is maintained smaller than a predetermined value.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
51 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 12, which further comprises a third sensor for monitoring vehicle speed to produce a vehicle speed data, and said control means varies increasing rate of said control gain according to increasing of said second acceleration data, depending upon said vehicle speed data.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
38 words
An active suspension system as set forth in claim 13, wherein said control means is set a plurality of variation characteristics of said control gain and selects one of the variation characteristics depending upon the vehicle speed data.
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