Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle height adjustment device
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Application No.: US16087335Application Date: 2017-03-24
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Publication No.: US11052719B2Publication Date: 2021-07-06
- Inventor: Ryusuke Hirao , Nobuyuki Ichimaru
- Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Ibaraki
- Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
- Current Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Ibaraki
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2016-065467 20160329
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/012101 WO 20170324
- International Announcement: WO2017/170253 WO 20171005
- Main IPC: B60G17/015
- IPC: B60G17/015 ; B60G17/018 ; B60G17/019

Abstract:
A vehicle height adjustment device includes: vehicle height adjustment actuators provided to at least a pair of front wheels or a pair of rear wheels of a vehicle, and configured to adjust a vehicle height defined by a distance between the wheels and a vehicle body; an actuator control device configured to control the vehicle height adjustment actuators such that the vehicle height approximates to a target vehicle height; and a detection device configured to detect a physical quantity which varies as upward or downward movement of the vehicle body is restricted due to contact with an external contacted object. The actuator control device stops upward or downward movement of the vehicle body, and switches to movement in an opposite direction based on a detected value of the detection device, when the determination that the movement of the vehicle body is restricted is made by the detection device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200298645A1 VEHICLE HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-09-24
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