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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2022
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Atsushi Taguchi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Ryusuke Hirao, Hitachinaka, JP;
HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Ibaraki, JP;
Abstract
An ECU includes a posture stability control portion configured to determine an instruction value for controlling a variable damper according to an input change in a posture of a vehicle, a ride comfort control portion configured to determine an instruction value for controlling the variable damper according to an input sprung vibration of the vehicle, and an instruction value calculation portion configured to determine an instruction value directed to the variable damper based on both the instruction values of the posture stability control portion and the ride comfort control portion. The instruction value calculation portion prioritizes the instruction value of the ride comfort control portion when a value indicating the change in the posture of the vehicle is equal to or larger than a predetermined value and a value indicating a sprung vibration in a sprung resonance frequency band is larger than a predetermined value.