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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Werner Busch, Weinstadt, DE;
Gunter Nagel, Esslingen, DE;
Assignee:
Daimler Chrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
267218 ; 267177 ;
Abstract
In an apparatus for the height-adjustable support of a vehicle body wherein each wheel suspension includes a control device with a piston and cylinder unit to which fluid under pressure is supplied, each piston and cylinder unit includes a hollow piston rod with a cylindrical wall having a flange rigidly connected to the vehicle body, a cylinder extending over the piston rod and having a spring carrier formed at its end on which a vehicle support spring is seated and which is movable along the piston rod when pressurized fluid is admitted to the interior of the piston rod for height-adjustment of the vehicle body.