Vehicle rear wheel suspension with track control
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorFriedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Abstract
An independent wheel suspension of a rear wheel of a motor vehicle, includes a control arm and a controllable actuator. The control arm is able to be articulated to a chassis of the motor vehicle and is able to be connected to a wheel carrier. The actuator is able to be fastened to the chassis and is able to be operatively connected to a front outer end of the control arm. According to the disclosure, when the actuator is controlled, said actuator is provided to carry out a length alteration which is substantially aligned in a direction parallel to a straight-ahead direction of travel.
Claims20
A vehicle, comprising:
- a chassis;
- a suspension supported by the chassis, the suspension including a rear wheel having a wheel carrier;
- the suspension including a control arm having an inner end articulated with the chassis at a pivot axis that is transverse to a direction of travel of the vehicle, the control arm having an end connected to the wheel carrier, and the control arm having a front end spaced from the inner end and the end;
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- the suspension including an actuator elongated in the direction of travel of the vehicle from an end fastened to the chassis to a remote end connected to the front end of the control arm, the actuator extendable along the direction of travel, the actuator pivots the control arm about the inner end about an axis transverse to both the pivot axis and the direction of travel when the length of the actuator along the direction of travel is altered.
A vehicle, comprising:
- a chassis;
- a suspension supported by the chassis, the suspension including a rear wheel having a wheel carrier;
- the suspension including a control arm having an inner end articulated with the chassis and an end connected to the wheel carrier, the control arm having a front end spaced from the inner end and the end;
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- the suspension including an actuator elongated in a direction of travel of the vehicle from an end fastened to the chassis to a remote end connected to the front end of the control arm, the actuator extendable along the direction of travel;
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- an electronic control unit having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to extend the actuator in response to a steering input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.