Rear damper adjustment
AssigneeVolvo Car Corporation
InventorsAxel Jonson, Anton Albinsson
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Abstract
Systems and methods for adjusting a rear damping coefficient to control to jerk of a rear damper of a vehicle based on movement of a front damper of the vehicle, an amount of time between a first time when the movement of the front damper occurs and a second time when the rear damper of the vehicle is expected experience a condition which caused the movement of the front damper, and a front damping coefficient of the front damper.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- determining, by a controller operatively coupled to a processor, movement of a front damper of a vehicle, an amount of time between a first time when the movement of the front damper occurs and a second time when a rear damper of the vehicle will experience a condition which caused the movement of the front damper, and a front damping coefficient of the front damper;
- determining, by the controller, a rear damping coefficient of the rear damper configured to prevent rear suspension impact with an end stop caused by rear suspension compression or rebound based on the movement of the front damper, the amount of time, and the front damping coefficient;
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- controlling, by the controller, a damper adjustment of the rear damper based on the rear damping coefficient.
A system, comprising:
- a memory that stores computer executable components;
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- a processor that executes at least one of the computer executable components that:
- determines movement of a front damper of a vehicle, an amount of time between a first time when the movement of the front damper occurs and a second time when a rear damper of the vehicle will experience a condition which caused the movement of the front damper, and a front damping coefficient of the front damper;
- determines a rear damping coefficient of the rear damper configured to prevent rear suspension impact with an end stop caused by rear suspension compression or rebound based on the movement of the front damper, the amount of time, and the front damping coefficient;
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- controls a damper adjustment of the rear damper based on the rear damping coefficient.
A computer program product facilitating damper control, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:
- determine movement of a front damper of a vehicle, an amount of time between a first time when the movement of the front damper occurs and a second time when a rear damper of the vehicle will experience a condition which caused the movement of the front damper, and a front damping coefficient of the front damper;
- determine a rear damping coefficient of the rear damper configured to prevent rear suspension impact with an end stop caused by rear suspension compression or rebound based on the movement of the front damper, the amount of time, and the front damping coefficient;
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- control a damper adjustment of the rear damper based on the rear damping coefficient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.