Vehicle height adjustment device
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYusuke Kondo, Atsuto Ogino
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Abstract
A vehicle height adjustment device includes: a pressure tank capable of storing air in a compression state; a plurality of vehicle height adjustment units that are provided in correspondence with wheels of a vehicle and individually adjust vehicle heights at the respective wheels by supplying the air from the pressure tank or returning the air to the pressure tank; an information acquisition unit that acquires turn route information during travel of the vehicle; and a control unit that raises the vehicle height at the vehicle height adjustment unit on a turn outer side more than the vehicle height at the vehicle height adjustment unit on a turn inner side such that the vehicle takes a tilt posture on the basis of the turn route information when the vehicle turns.
Claims14
A vehicle height adjustment device comprising:
- a pressure tank capable of storing air in a compression state;
- a plurality of vehicle height adjustment units that are provided in correspondence with wheels of a vehicle and individually adjust vehicle heights at the wheels by supplying the air from the pressure tank or returning the air to the pressure tank;
- an information acquisition unit that acquires turn route information during travel of the vehicle;
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- a control unit that raises a vehicle height at a vehicle height adjustment unit of the plurality of vehicle height adjustment units on a turn outer side more than a vehicle height at a vehicle height adjustment unit of the plurality of vehicle height adjustment units on a turn inner side such that the vehicle takes a tilt posture on a basis of the turn route information when the vehicle turns.
A vehicle height adjustment device comprising:
- a plurality of vehicle height adjustment units that are provided in correspondence with wheels of a vehicle and individually adjust vehicle heights at the respective wheels;
- an information acquisition unit that acquires current position information of the vehicle;
- a storage unit that stores a position on a map where the vehicle turns and a tilt posture of the vehicle in the position in association with each other;
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- a control unit that acquires the tilt posture corresponding to the current position information from the storage unit when the vehicle turns, and raises a vehicle height at a vehicle height adjustment unit of the plurality of vehicle height adjustment units on a turn outer side more than a vehicle height at a vehicle height adjustment unit of the plurality of vehicle height adjustment units on a turn inner side such that the vehicle takes the tilt posture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.