Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hideo Ito

Masatsugu Yokote

Kenji Kawagoe

Junsuke Kuroki

Namio Irie

Kazunobu Kawabata

Satoru Ishihara

Ken Ito

Moritsune Nakata

Hiroshi Tonomura

Keiichiro Yabuta

Tetshin Sakata

Yasuhiko Kobiki

Kenzi Kawagoe

Akira Oouchi

Kazuto Kuzuu

A height control system in an automotive suspension system has a pressure supply network for adjusting pressure in a plurality of height adjusting actuator in respective suspension systems for adjusting relative distance between the vehicle body and suspension members at portions where the suspension systems are provided. The height control system includes a communication control valve provided in the pressure supply network so as to selectively establish and block fluid communication between the pressure supply network and one of the height control actuator. The communication control valve is to be operated to open for establishing fluid communication between one of the at least two actuators and the communication passage means when at least one of the height levels at the at least two portions is out of a predetermined target height range, and to close the communication control valve while all of the height levels monitored are within the predetermined target height range. By presence of the communication control valve, the hunting in height adjustment can be successfully eliminated.

Height control system in automotive suspension system with hunting

A control system for an aerodynamic equipment of an automotive vehicle, which is effective to prove higher cornering stability of the vehicle.

Aerodynamics control system for automotive vehicle

A height control system utilizing at least first and second mutually different target height ranges for selectively using in vehicular height control. The first target height range is utilized for detecting the height adjustment initiating timing and the second target height range is utilized for detecting the height adjustment terminating timing. The first and second target height ranges are variable depending upon the vehicle driving condition, such as vehicle driving speed, road surface condition and so forth.

Height control system for automotive suspension system with vehicle

A control system for an automotive suspension system and a power steering system employs a steering operation pattern as a parameter representative of the vehicle traveling condition and vehicular driving characteristics. The control system performs selection of control modes or control characteristics based on the vehicle traveling condition and vehicle driving characteristics.

Control system for adapting suspension characteristics and steering

A system for controlling the steering angle of the rear steerable wheels of a vehicle senses the front wheel steering angle, the vehicle speed and a manually selected mode signal for a new mode of two driving modes. A microcomputer containing models for the two modes determines a target yaw rate for the selected mode from which is calculated a target rear wheel steering angle to control rear wheel steering. However, the system is prevented from calculating a steering angle for the new mode when it would cause an unsafe abrupt change in vehicle behavior as when the rear wheel steering angle is not nearly zero which is equivalent to the sensed front steering angle, the target yaw rate and the lateral acceleration all being nearly zero.

Steering control system for wheeled vehicle

In order to improve the steering and handling characteristics of a four wheel drive vehicle wherein at least one of the front and rear sets of wheels are provided with an auxiliary steering device, the steering condition of the vehicle is sensed and in the event that the steering is such that yaw can be easily induced the amount of power which is distributed to the front wheels is decreased relative to the amount prior the instant steering condition being established and vice versa.

Device for distributing drive power in the drive train of a four wheel

A vehicular height control system includes means for detecting road roughness condition on the basis of a vehicular height indicative signal which is produced by a vehicular height sensor. The control system also includes means for detecting the road roughness condition satisfying a predetermined condition for disabling vehicular height control. Disabling of vehicular height control keeps the control system free from fluctuation of vehicular height indicative signal value due to uneveness of the road surface.

Vehicular height control system for automotive suspension system with

A suspension and steering control system includes a mode selection which enables a normal mode wherein the suspension is conditioned to produce a soft damping and sufficient power assistance to the steering to produce light steering characteristics and a sporty mode wherein the suspension is conditioned to produce a firm ride and the power assistance to the steering lowered to produce heavier steering characteritics. The system further includes an arrangement for sensing parameters which are related to the attitude of the vehicle and/or the suspension thereof and for (a) during the normal mode, temporarily conditioning the suspension to produce the firm ride characteristics if the attitude of the vehicle is apt to change beyond a predetermined amount, and for (b), during the sporty mode, temporarily conditioning the suspension to produce the soft ride in the event that no substantial changes in the vehicle attitude related parameters are sensed.

Combined power steering and variable suspension control arrangement

An electronically controlled power steering system comprises a vehicle speed sensor, a steering wheel angle sensor, a power steering gear including a control valve, a bypass valve for regulating a flow rate of hydraulic fluid supplied to the control valve of the power steering gear in response to a control signal generated by a controller. The controller is operative responsive to sensor output signals of the sensors for generating the control signal. With the controller, the control signal is varied in response to the vehicle speed and the steering wheel angle when the steering wheel angle is less than a predetermined value, but this varying tendency of the control signal in response to the steering wheel angle is restrained when the steering wheel angle is not less than the predetermined value.

Electronically controlled power steering system

A suspension control system employs a road sensor monitoring road roughness or smoothness and producing a road condition indicative signal. The control system also employs other sensor or sensors for monitoring at least one preselected suspension control parameter, such as vehicle speed, steering angular variation and so forth, other than road roughness. The suspension switches between relatively hard and relatively soft characteristics based on the preselected suspension control prameters. In order to make suspension control more precisely suited to the vehicle driving conditions, the control characateristics of the suspension system are adjusted depending upon the road condition. With this arrangement, even when the suspension is controlled so as to suppress vehicular roll based on the steering angular displacement and when rough road conditions cause steering angular displacement due to kick-back from the road input through the steering mechanism, the erroneous judgement that steering adjustments are about to cause vehicular roll can be avoided. In case of acceleration responsive suspension control, rough road conditions tend to cause a driver to unconsciously operate the accelerator pedal so as to increase and decrease throttle valve angular position relative to the fully closed position. According to the present invention, by adjusting the control characteristics, erroneous detection that the vehicle is accelerating, which would normally cause winding-up, can be successfully avoided.

Method and system for controlling automotive suspension system,

A body mounting arrangement is proposed wherein a bonnet type body is mounted on a frame. The body includes a cabin and is provided with a first pair of mounting sites at a front portion thereof, a second pair of mounting sites at a front portion of the cabin floor, and a third pair of mounting sites at a rear portion of the cabin floor. First and second pairs of compression type mount rubbers are disposed between the first and second pairs of mounting sites and frame, respectively. A pair of shear type mount rubbers are disposed between the third pairs of mounting sites and frame.

Body mounting arrangement for truck

A vehicle height control system controls suspension assemblies to adjust the vehicle height within a predetermined height range. The vehicle height control system is further active to reduce differences in height at respective positions of the vehicle body so as to be within a predetermined acceptable height difference range.

Height control system for automotive vehicle with vehicular profile

A swing arm suspension for automotive vehicle has a suspension arm pivotably connected to a suspension member for rotation about a substantially horizontal pivot axis. A lateral rod is connected to the suspension arm at one end thereof via a bushing and to a suspension member at the other end via another bushing. The position where the lateral rod is connected to the suspension member and to the vehicle body are offset from the pivot axis of the suspension arm. The position is chosen such that the lateral rod serves to provide roll compensating force for the suspension to satisfactorily and successfully restrict roll or compliance steering effects in the toe-out direction and to prevent positive camber. The lateral rod is adapted to be connected to the suspension member at such a position as to cause toe-in and/or negative camber.

Swing-arm-type suspension with a lateral rod for an automotive vehicle

A swing-arm type suspension having a suspension arm for suspending a road wheel on a vehicle body. A lateral link is also provided for restricting yawing movement of the suspension arm and thereby for restricting toe-angle change. The suspension arm is connected to the vehicle body by bifurcated legs via elastic bushings. The suspension arm is adapted to roll in response to rolling movement about a camber axis to change camber. The actual camber axis of the suspension arm is so arranged as to reduce toe-out change in accordance with the rolling movement of the suspension arm to cause positive camber.

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