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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1991
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
The posture of the automotive vehicle body is controlled by supplying or discharging the operating fluid to or from the cylinder unit for each wheel, which is interposed between a sprang weight and an unsprung weight. When an incident occurs to such an extent that the control over the posture of the vehicle body cannot be implemented in a normal way, the control is suspended. When such an incident occurs during cornering of the vehicle body, the suspension of the control over the posture of the body is so modified as to implement a special control, preferably control being made so as to lower the vehicle height by forcibly discharging the operating fluid from the cylinder unit. This prevents the vehicle body from being leaned after the end of the cornering. A decision as to cornering is made by taking advantage of the state of operation of the steering wheel or the magnitude of transverse acceleration. Preferably, a decision is made to determine if the difference in inner pressures between the left-hand and right-hand cylinder units is a predetermined value or higher.