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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2024
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jason Wallace Michener, Novi, MI (US);
Rick Dempsey, Milford, NH (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for determining an operation state of a suspension damper of a vehicle that may include receiving first data, determining whether the vehicle may be in a steady state condition based on the first data, and responsive to the vehicle being determined to be in the steady state condition, determining damping oscillation magnitude data for a set of suspension dampers based on second data. The method may further include performing a comparison between the damping oscillation magnitude data for a reference suspension damper and the damping oscillation data for remaining suspension dampers, determining an operation state of the reference suspension damper based on the comparison, cycling the reference suspension damper to one of the remaining suspension dampers, and repeating the method until the operation state of each one of a set of suspension dampers has been determined.