Rover Group Limited

Land Rover Group Limited

Adrian Michael Griffiths

William Burdock

Jing Shen Tang

In an active roll control system for a vehicle, anti-roll bars ( ) are provided with actuators ( ) which can provide a torque in the anti-roll bars to control vehicle body roll. Under certain cornering conditions when the vehicle is liable to over-steer, the pressure supply to the actuators is pulsed so that the front wheels of the vehicle tend to break away more easily, thereby reducing over-steer.

Vehicle suspensions

The suspension comprises a wheel support constrained to move about an axis of rotation relative to the vehicle body by a linkage arrangement connected between the wheel support and mountings on the vehicle body. The linkage arrangement has first and second arm members arranged such that imaginary extensions thereof intersect at a point outside of the centre of a wheel mounted on said wheel support and to the rear of the axis of rotation of the wheel and has a third linkage between said vehicle body and said wheel support which is connected to the vehicle body at a position that lies outwardly from the position at which the second arm is coupled to the vehicle body and to the rear of an imaginary line extending between the position of connection of the first arm to the body and the position of connection of the second arm to the vehicle body.

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Solihull, United Kingdom

Adrian Michael Griffiths