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8165751 Method for detecting rollover of an automotive vehicle based on a lateral kinetic energy rate threshold  
A method for rollover sensing (12) that may be used in the determination of when to deploy restraints in a vehicle is disclosed herein. The method for rollover sensing (12) may include lateral...
8165750 Vehicle motion control device and method  
The objective of the present invention is to provide a vehicle motion control device capable of controlling the driving force distribution to the wheels with superior stability and response while...
8165749 Control system for adjustable damping force damper  
A control system for an adjustable damping force damper of a suspension apparatus of a vehicle, includes a lateral acceleration detecting unit detecting a lateral acceleration of the vehicle at a...
8135514 Automotive systems and methods of operating vehicles  
Automotive systems and methods for operating vehicles are provided. In an embodiment, when a speed sensor senses that the vehicle speed is above a first speed threshold and an ambient light sensor...
8123235 Hydraulic system for a vehicle suspension  
A vehicle hydraulic suspension system has front left (15), front right (16), rear left (18) and rear right (17) wheel ram. There is a mode decoupling device (100) with first (129), second (130),...
8123240 Control system for leaning vehicle  
A leaning vehicle has a frame that pivots relative to a pivotable frame member about a pivot axis. A torque exerted on a steering assembly in a first direction causes the frame to pivot relative to...
8112199 Suspension control device, vehicle comprising said device, production method thereof and associated program  
The invention relates to a device for controlling the suspension of the body shell of a motor vehicle. According to the invention, the device comprises: a means for measuring the travel (DEB(A))...
8108103 Nonlinear frequency dependent filtering for vehicle ride/stability control  
A system and method for facilitating ride and stability control of a vehicle. The system includes a plurality of suspension displacement sensors, with each of the plurality of suspension...
8108102 Sprung mass velocity estimating apparatus  
A sprung mass velocity estimating apparatus used in a four-wheeled vehicle to estimate a sprung mass velocity of a point of a vehicle body corresponding to each wheel of the vehicle, includes a...
8103408 Suspension system for vehicle  
In a system including four electromagnetic absorbers for respective four vehicle wheels, motor coils of two respective electromagnetic absorbers disposed corresponding to two diagonally located...
8095268 Active suspending  
An apparatus includes a force bias element coupled to a plant in a vehicle. The force bias element has a first bandwidth. An active suspension includes a linear electromagnetic actuator located...
8090500 Control device for a variable damper  
In a control device for controlling a variable damper of a vehicle suspension system, when a stroke speed of the damper is within a range including a zero stroke speed, the target damping force is...
8086377 Suspension control apparatus  
The present invention provides a suspension control apparatus capable of an excellent vibration control by a model thereof designed to incorporate nonlinearity and a time-lag element of a control...
8075002 Semi-active suspension system  
A suspension system for a wheeled vehicle includes hydraulic actuators associated with each of the vehicle's wheels, a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic accumulator, a compressible hydraulic fluid, and a...
8065054 Vehicle active suspension system  
The invention relates to a vehicle active suspension system. There is a need for an active suspension system which can alert an operator to certain conditions. The suspension system includes an...
8050819 Alignment changing control device and fuel consumption management device  
A toe angle changing control ECU for controlling a toe angle of wheels of a vehicle. The toe angle changing control ECU includes: a straight traveling state judging section for judging whether or...
8036791 Vehicular damping force control device  
A suspension ECU 13 calculates a target characteristic changing coefficient a_new for changing a target characteristic, which is represented by a quadratic function, by use of the maximum actual...
8027765 Vehicle stabilizer system  
A stabilizer system for a vehicle that includes a stabilizer bar and an actuator for changing stiffness of the stabilizer bar, an electric current to be supplied to an electric motor that is a...
8005592 System for dynamically determining axle loadings of a moving vehicle using integrated sensing system and its application in vehicle dynamics controls  
A vehicle (10) includes a control system (18) that is used to control a vehicle system. The control system determines a wheel normal loading in response to heave motion wheel loading,...
7984915 Rear suspension with semi-active toe force compliance control  
Herein, a particular vehicle suspension control arm in a suspension having multiple control arms is designed to create a range of available axial stiffness levels which relates to a range of toe...
7983813 Active suspending  
A method for actively suspending a real plant in a vehicle includes modifying a control signal on the basis of a difference between a property of the real plant, as indicated by the response of the...
7976040 Axle air dump for multiple axle vehicles  
A system and process for controlling vehicle loading on a multi-axle vehicle and improving maneuverability is disclosed. The system includes a reservoir of pressurized air and associated leveling...
7970516 Vehicle control system  
A vehicle control system estimates the vibration states of tires by using a vehicle vibration model that is separated into a vehicle body vibration model, a chassis vibration model, and a tire...
7959163 Suspension-related systems and methods  
In some embodiments, the present systems include, consist of, or consist essentially of a roadarm having a first end, a second end, and an opening near the first end; where the second end is...
7957866 Travel control apparatus for a vehicle  
In a configuration in which a control is performed for actuating the steering cylinder 17 so that the steering angle of the front wheel 11a (steering wheel), which is detected by the steering angle...
7949445 Suspension control device, vehicle comprising said device, production and associated program  
A device for controlling the suspension of the body shell of a motor vehicle performs calculation of a relative modal body shell speed in relation to the mid-plane of the wheels, and calculation of...
7938410 Suspension system for vehicle  
In a suspension system for a vehicle, a suspension spring, an absorber for controllably changing the damping coefficient becoming the reference of amount of its own generating damping force, a...
7917270 Operation of electronic stability control systems using data from a plurality of sources  
A method for operating a vehicle electronic stability control (“ESC”) system utilizing values for a variable obtained from a primary source and a redundant source includes the steps of rec...
7912603 Method for controlling the damper force in vehicles having a ride level control system  
The damper force in vehicles having a ride level control system is controlled by, when the leveling system is activated, a signal that is generated and transmitted to a damper force control device...
7896358 Magneto-rheological inertial damping system for lift trucks  
A lift truck includes a magneto-rheological damper coupled between the base frame and a frame holding a vertically sprung suspended wheel. The damper is electrically connected to a vehicle control...
7894955 Method and apparatus for vehicle rollover mitigation  
A method is provided for detecting a rollover event of a vehicle. A lateral kinetic energy of the vehicle is determined in response to vehicle longitudinal velocity and vehicle side slip angle. A...
7887064 Suspension system for vehicle  
In a system in which an actuator force to be generated by an actuator is controlled based on a component sum that is a sum of a vibration damping component as the actuator force to be generated in...
7890230 Vehicle motion control device and method  
The objective of the present invention is to provide a vehicle motion control device capable of controlling the driving force distribution to the wheels with superior stability and response while...
7885740 Control system for adjustable damping force  
Upon searching control parameter used to adjust damping force of a damper from a map in accordance with damper speed and target damping force decided based on moving condition of the vehicle, the...
7872764 Machine vision for predictive suspension  
A predictive suspension system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor, and energy source and a control. The imaging sensor is disposed at a vehicle and has a generally downward field of view,...
7844378 Farm apparatus having implement sidehill drift compensation  
An apparatus and method using GPS for dynamically adjusting side-to-side positioning of a farm implement along a geographical path.
7822519 Control device and method for shock absorber  
A damping force control device (1) for a shock absorber (Dn) interposed between a sprung member (Bn) and an unsprung member (Wn) of a vehicle (A) comprises a damping force varying mechanism (3)...
7770902 In-arm compressible fluid suspension system  
An in-arm suspension (12) is provided for actively controlling a suspension arm (20) mounted to a vehicle frame (14). The suspension arm (20) has a housing (60) in which the a compressible fluid...
7766343 Hydraulic spring support system  
The invention concerns a hydraulic spring support system including a double acting hydraulic cylinder with a piston chamber and a rod chamber, a first accumulator that is connected constantly with...
7766344 Device for changing distance between wheel and vehicle body, and system including the device  
An adjuster device includes (a) a shaft held by a vehicle body; (b) an arm extending from the shaft in a direction intersecting an axial direction of the shaft; (c) an actuator causing one of...
7751959 Semi-active suspension system with anti-roll for a vehicle  
A suspension system includes four electronically controlled actuators, one at each of the four wheels. The actuators are each controlled by an electronic control unit. The left front and right...
7747367 Vehicle physical quantity estimation apparatus and storage medium having stored thereon computer program relating to the apparatus  
A vehicle physical quantity estimating device including: a longitudinal vehicle body velocity estimating unit, estimating a longitudinal vehicle body velocity based on vehicle wheel velocities of...
7747359 Vehicle state determination integrity  
A vehicle includes a semi-active suspension including suspension dampers controllably adjustable in accordance with electronic stability control commands and ride and handling commands. Vehicle...
7744097 Rear wheel suspension device for two-wheel vehicle  
A hydraulic cushion unit (1) is interposed between a frame and a rear wheel axle of a bicycle. A surplus hydraulic oil discharging passage (31a) discharges surplus hydraulic oil from the hydraulic...
7729829 Suspension irregularity detecting system  
A vehicle suspension system (19) includes a suspension (47). A lateral acceleration sensor (32) generates a lateral acceleration signal. A roll rate sensor (34) generates a roll rate signal. A...
7706941 Method and system for coordinating a vehicle stability control system with a suspension damper control sub-system  
A method and system for coordinating a vehicle stability control system with a suspension damper control sub-system includes a plurality of dampers, each of which are controlled directly by the...
7684911 Suspension control calibration integrity  
A vehicle includes a semi-active suspension including suspension dampers controllably adjustable in accordance with electronic stability control commands and ride and handling commands. Vehicle...
7680573 Suspension control system and suspension control method for vehicle  
A suspension control system and a suspension control method for a vehicle control the suspension based on the condition of the road surface traveled by the vehicle in addition to information...
7672765 Enhanced roll stability indicator for vehicle rollover control  
A system and method for providing a vehicle roll stability indicator that dynamically estimates the probability for vehicle rollover. The system determines vehicle kinematics from various vehicle...
7654540 Electromechanical transducing  
An electromagnetic transducer including a stator and an armature, the armature defining a first axis and being driven to ride between first and second couplers back and forth relative to the stator...
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