Continental Aktiengesellschaft

Zf Sachs Ag

Wolfgang Schumacher

Alexander Stiller

Thomas Kutsche

Jörg Grotendorst

Stefan Sommer

Christian Maurischat

Eberhard Hees

One or several vibration dampers of a vehicle suspension have a damping force arrangement wherein a control signal is computed within the actuating range in accordance with a standard control method for adjusting the damper characteristic. The drive of a damper adjustable in accordance with this invention is so improved that body movements (notwithstanding a harder adjusted damping for critical driving situations) are substantially suppressed as early as possible. In specific driving situations, the adjusting range of the damper force is changed in that the upper limit of the adjusting range is raised or lowered and/or the lower limit of the adjusting range is raised or lowered. A soft damper setting takes place preferably in dependence upon signals which announce or display a change of the vehicle longitudinal deceleration or vehicle transverse acceleration.

Electrically adjustable semiactive damper control

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Bergrheinfeld, Germany

Wolfgang Schumacher