Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle suspension system
- Patent Title (中): 车辆悬挂系统
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Application No.: US12280292Application Date: 2007-03-06
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Publication No.: US08191874B2Publication Date: 2012-06-05
- Inventor: Hirofumi Inoue , Hiroaki Date , Kazuo Ogawa
- Applicant: Hirofumi Inoue , Hiroaki Date , Kazuo Ogawa
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2006-078116 20060322
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/054337 WO 20070306
- International Announcement: WO2007/108316 WO 20070927
- Main IPC: F16F15/36
- IPC: F16F15/36 ; F16F9/00 ; F16F15/03

Abstract:
A vehicle suspension system including: (a) a suspension spring interconnecting a vehicle body and a wheel; (b) an actuator having an electric motor, such that the actuator is capable of generating, based on a force of the electric motor, an actuator force forcing the body and the wheel toward and away from each other, and causing the generated actuator force to act as a damping force against displacement of the body and the wheel; and (c) a control device for controlling the actuator force generated by the actuator, by controlling operation of the electric motor. The control device is capable of establishing a constant-force generating state in which the actuator force is constantly generated as a constant actuator force by the actuator with supply of an electric power thereto from a battery as an electric power source of the electric motor such that the generated constant actuator force acts in a rebound direction or a bound direction. The control device controls the constant-force generating state, based on a charge state of the battery.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100230876A1 VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2010-09-16
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