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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1996

Filed:

Mar. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:

Scott W Badenoch, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);

David A Shal, Centerville, OH (US);

Scott A Stacey, Kettering, OH (US);

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36442405 ; 280840 ; 280707 ;
Abstract

A method of controlling a vehicle suspension system comprising the steps of: determining a relative velocity between a wheel and the corner of a vehicle body; determining responsive to the relative velocity, according to a non-linear passive function, a raw wheel demand force; determining an average vertical velocity of the wheel; determining, responsive to the average vertical velocity of the wheel, a first scaling factor; multiplying the first scaling factor by the raw wheel demand force to determine a scaled wheel demand force; and controlling the vehicle suspension system responsive to the scaled wheel demand force.


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