Suspension system with on-demand full damper capacity
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsSteven Thompson, Tom Sawarynski, Adam Busack, Jason Michener, Matthew Titus
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Abstract
A suspension control system for a vehicle may include a plurality of adjustable dampers associated with suspension of respective ones of a plurality of wheels of the vehicle, a controller operably coupled to the adjustable dampers to selectively adjust a damping force of one or more of the adjustable dampers responsive to an activation signal, and a driver interface disposed at a steering wheel assembly of the vehicle. The driver interface may be actuated by a driver of the vehicle to apply the activation signal while the driver interface is actuated.
Claims20
A suspension control system for a vehicle, the system comprising:
- a plurality of adjustable dampers associated with suspension of respective ones of a plurality of wheels of the vehicle;
- a controller operably coupled to the adjustable dampers to selectively adjust a damping force of one or more of the adjustable dampers responsive to an activation signal;
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- a multi-purpose driver interface disposed at a steering wheel assembly of the vehicle, the multi-purpose driver interface being actuated by a driver of the vehicle to apply the activation signal while the driver interface is actuated,
- wherein the multi-purpose driver interface has a different primary function from applying the activation signal related to a different vehicle subsystem in a first mode, and
- wherein selectively adjusting the damping force of the one or more of the adjustable dampers is performed as a real time adjustment responsive to the multi-purpose driver interface being actuated during a suspension event in a second mode.
A suspension control system for a vehicle, the system comprising:
- a plurality of adjustable dampers associated with suspension of respective ones of a plurality of wheels of the vehicle;
- a controller operably coupled to the adjustable dampers to selectively adjust a damping force of one or more of the adjustable dampers responsive to an activation signal;
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- a driver interface disposed proximate to a steering wheel assembly of the vehicle, the driver interface being actuated by a driver of the vehicle to apply the activation signal while the driver interface is actuated,
- wherein a first mode or a second mode is selected, and
- wherein responsive to being in the first mode, the activation signal is applied to individual ones of the adjustable dampers, and responsive to being in the second mode, the activation is applied to all of the adjustable dampers simultaneously responsive to the actuation of the driver interface during a suspension event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.