Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Louis Joseph Jamail

David Michael Russell

Albert Chenouda Salib

Russ Lee Norton

Uwe Hoffmann

Darrell Erick Butler

Marc Suermann

Benjamin Bulat

William Gregory Suter

An active vehicle suspension system includes an active damping mechanism operatively coupled to a vehicle wheel and configured for controlling a damping force applied to the wheel responsive to a control signal. A controller is operatively coupled to the damping mechanism and configured for generating a control signal to the damping mechanism responsive to velocity of the wheel in a downward vertical direction. At least one of a timer threshold and velocity threshold, used to determine whether a vehicle wheel has encountered a depression in a road surface, may be varied on a basis of a speed of the vehicle. A damping mechanism for a rear wheel of a vehicle may be controlled on a basis of how a damping mechanism for a front wheel is controlled.

Ride performance optimization in an active suspension system

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Louis Joseph Jamail