Vehicle suspension system
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomoya Toyohira, Takafumi Kato, Satoshi Ohno, Atsuhiko Yoneda
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Abstract
A vehicle suspension system (3) includes an electromagnetic damper (7) provided with a sprung member (8) and an unsprung member (9) to apply a drive force and a damping force between the sprung member and the unsprung member, and a control unit (10) for controlling the electromagnetic damper. A target load for the electromagnetic damper is determined based on the unsprung member demand load that attenuates a vertical vibration of the unsprung member, and the sprung member demand load that restrains a vertical displacement of the sprung member. An absolute value of the sprung member demand load is reduced when a sprung member frequency is in an unsprung member resonance frequency range.
Claims9
A vehicle suspension system, comprising:
- an electromagnetic damper provided with a sprung member and an unsprung member of a vehicle to apply a drive force and a damping force between the sprung member and the unsprung member;
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- a control unit for controlling the electromagnetic damper;
- the control unit comprising:
- an unsprung member demand load computing unit for computing an unsprung member demand load that attenuates a vertical vibration of the unsprung member;
- a sprung member demand load computing unit for computing a sprung member demand load that restrains a vertical displacement of the sprung member;
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- a target load computing unit for computing a target load for the electromagnetic damper based on the unsprung member demand load and the sprung member demand load;
- the sprung member demand load computing unit being configured to reduce an absolute value of the sprung member demand load to be forwarded to the target load computing unit when a sprung member frequency given as a frequency of a vertical vibration of the sprung member is in an unsprung member resonance frequency range where a resonance of the unsprung member can occur.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.