System and method for adjusting a damper of a vehicle in anticipation of changing road conditions
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorsToon Shin Tam, Kushal Chirag Shah, Benjamin L. Cottrill, Peter W. LaVallee, Kanishk Bakshi
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Abstract
A method for adjusting a damper of a vehicle may include receiving a signal from a control, determining that one or more parameter thresholds are not met, increasing a compression resistance of one or more dampers from a first compression resistance to a second compression resistance, determining that an actuation threshold has occurred, and reducing the compression resistance of the one or more dampers from the second compression resistance to or toward the first compression resistance after the actuation threshold has occurred.
Claims20
A method for adjusting a damper of a vehicle comprising:
- receiving a signal from a control;
- determining that one or more parameter thresholds are not met;
- increasing a compression resistance of one or more dampers from a first compression resistance to a second compression resistance;
- determining that an actuation threshold has occurred;
- and
- reducing the compression resistance of the one or more dampers from the second compression resistance to or toward the first compression resistance after the actuation threshold has occurred.
A vehicle comprising:
- a frame configured to support components of the vehicle;
- a body supported by the frame, wherein the body defines an exterior of the vehicle and a passenger compartment within the body of the vehicle;
- a damper having a first end coupled to the frame and the damper has a second end that is movable relative to the first end;
- a wheel coupled with the second end of the damper, wherein the wheel and the second end of the damper can move relative to the frame;
- a control actuatable from within the passenger compartment;
- and
- a control system capable of receiving a signal from the control, determining that one or more parameter thresholds are not met, increasing a compression resistance of one or more dampers from a first compression resistance to a second compression resistance, determining that an actuation threshold has occurred, and reducing the compression resistance of the one or more dampers from the second compression resistance to or toward the first compression resistance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.