Pneumatic Sway Assist
OwnerMark Andrew Jenseninventor
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Abstract
A self-contained pneumatic anti-sway assist vehicle body roll control system to supplement existing vehicle suspension by means of sharing load support primary and secondary volumetric gas chamber pressures for soft ride over normal, level road surfaces; then by blocking said secondary gas chambers at load side of vehicle to summarily increase spring rate within its primary load support gas chamber for increased vehicle body suspension support during lateral forces encountered with right and left turns and/or with vehicle body lean when off-camber.
Claims8
A self-contained pneumatic anti-sway assist vehicle body roll control to produce a leveling effect of a vehicle body that comprises:
- no pressure vent to atmosphere nor external pump input,
- a movable valve to open or close a pneumatic passageway,
- wherein said movable valve blocks and isolates a vehicle body load support gas chamber from potentially shared volume of a secondary gas chamber, that when said secondary gas chamber is isolated, primary load-side gas chamber spring rate is increased, thus providing additional load support at load side of vehicle,
- wherein said movable valve requires no operator input, and activates reactively and automatically,
- wherein said movable valve is activated by vehicle body inclination/deviation from a horizontal/level plane and/or lateral forces induced upon vehicle body during turns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.