B60G2800/18

SUSPENSION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROL

A suspension system for a vehicle includes a plurality of air spring assemblies, each having an air spring, and a suspension position sensor; and a controller. The controller is programmed to determine corner forces associated with each air spring of the plurality of air spring assemblies based on a pressure provided by a pressure sensor and an effective area of each air spring of the plurality of air spring assemblies based on a total length provided by the suspension position sensor, according to a target total length of each air spring.

Suspension system with dynamic weight balancing control

A method of automatically applying damping force interventions for dynamic weight balancing in a suspension system of a vehicle may include receiving ride height information associated with respective individual wheels of the vehicle and vehicle attitude information from vehicle sensors, determining, based on the ride height information and the vehicle attitude information, whether a trigger event has occurred, and generating a first damping intervention signal to change a damping force applied by a first selected adjustable damper responsive to determining that the trigger event has occurred. The first selected damper may be one of a plurality of adjustable dampers associated with respective ones of the individual wheels of the vehicle. The first selected adjustable damper may be associated with only one of a pair of rear wheels of the vehicle.

LEANING VEHICLE

A leaning vehicle includes: a body frame; a right wheel and a left wheel; a linkage mechanism including arms rotatably supported on the body frame; a left-right tilt angle control mechanism configured to control a tilt angle of the body frame in a left direction or in the right direction by adjusting a rotation of the arms with respect to the body frame; and a control section. The control section controls the left-right tilt angle control mechanism to change the tilt angle of the body frame in the left direction or in the right direction in accordance with an input to the leaning vehicle from a rider while the leaning vehicle is stopped.

MOTOR VEHICLE WITH ACTIVE SUSPENSIONS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE

A motor vehicle comprises a suspended mass comprising a body, an unsprung mass comprising a plurality of wheels to allow the motor vehicle to move forward on a road, an active suspension assembly configured to suspend the suspended mass relative to the unsprung mass and controllable to move the suspended mass relative to the unsprung mass, an engine carried by the body, a transmission connecting the engine to at least two of said wheels, thereby defining traction wheels, such that the engine can deliver torque to the traction wheels causing acceleration of the motor vehicle, and a control unit configured to control the active suspension assembly during said acceleration and/or in a steady state of the motor vehicle prior to said acceleration imposing a displacement of the suspended mass relative to the unsprung mass according to a yaw axis of the motor vehicle to increase the maximum transmissible force from the traction wheels to the road.