Suspension device for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsuyoshi Yoshimi
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Abstract
A characteristic is set to a first transmission force characteristic. A sensitivity is set to a first sensitivity. The maximum value of the square of a product of a value representing the first transmission force characteristic and a value representing the first sensitivity in a predetermined frequency range preset so as to include a frequency at which the value representing the first transmission force characteristic takes a peak value is set to an evaluation indication value. A complex spring constant in the vehicle longitudinal direction of the rear wheel suspension is set so that the evaluation indication value takes the minimum value out of values in a variable range of the evaluation indication value.
Claims8
A suspension device for a vehicle, comprising first and second suspensions for respectively suspending, from a vehicle body, first and second wheels arranged separately from each other in a vehicle longitudinal direction, and an electronic control device, wherein:
- the electronic control device is configured to set a first product as a product ((Xs2/F1)·(F1/F)) of a sensitivity (Xs2/F1) (s is Laplacian) represented by a first transmission force (F1), which is a force received by the vehicle body from the first wheel, and a displacement (X) of the vehicle body in the vehicle longitudinal direction when a first longitudinal force (F) is input to the first wheel and a first transmission force characteristic (F1/F) of the vehicle, which is a ratio of the first transmission force (F1) to the first longitudinal force (F);
- the electronic control device is configured to set a target complex spring constant as a complex spring constant in the vehicle longitudinal direction of the second suspension in a case where an evaluation indication value correlating with a square ({(Xs2/F1)·(F1/F)}2) of the first product takes a minimum value out of values that are likely to be taken by the evaluation indication value in a predetermined frequency range (fl to fh) set in advance so as to include a peak frequency (fs) corresponding to a peak value of the first transmission force characteristic;
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- the electronic control device is configured to adjust a magnetic fluid in an internal space of a rubber bush in the suspension device in order to set the complex spring constant in the vehicle longitudinal direction of the second suspension to the target complex spring constant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.