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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2001
Federico Ghirardi, Parama, IT;
Alberto Longhi, Ferrara, IT;
Ferrari S.p.A., Modena, IT;
Abstract
A device for controlling the attitude of a vehicle and having a number of electronically controlled shock absorbers and an electronic central control unit for driving the electronically controlled shock absorbers in such a manner as to regulate, instant by instant, the damping capacity of each; the electronic central control unit having a control circuit for determining when a gear shift is about to be made, a selection circuit for determining a shock absorber regulation strategy best suited to counteract the onset of attitude variations produced by the pending gear shift, and a shock absorber drive circuit for controlling the electronically controlled shock absorbers in such a manner as to implement the shock absorber regulation strategy selected by the selection circuit.