Vehicle suspension event recording and/or reporting system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsCalvin Trescott, Keith Weston, Michael Alan Mcnees, Stuart C. Salter, Brendan Diamond
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Abstract
A vehicle monitoring system may include a sensor network operably coupled to suspension components of the vehicle and a controller operably coupled to the sensor network to determine a suspension event and vehicle speed, initiation angle and duration time associated with the suspension event. The controller further determines a vertical and/or horizontal component of the distance traveled during the suspension event based on the vehicle speed, initiation angle and duration time.
Claims20
A vehicle monitoring system comprising:
- a sensor network operably coupled to suspension components of the vehicle;
- and
- a controller operably coupled to the sensor network to determine a suspension event and vehicle speed, initiation angle and duration time associated with the suspension event,
- wherein the controller further determines a vertical and/or horizontal component of a distance traveled during the suspension event based on the vehicle speed, initiation angle and duration time.
A method of monitoring vehicle operation for a suspension event, the method comprising:
- receiving sensor information from a sensor network of the vehicle;
- determining when a suspension event occurs based on the sensor information;
- determining vehicle speed and initiation angle at a start of the suspension event and duration time associated with the suspension event responsive to an end of the suspension event;
- and
- determining a vertical and/or horizontal component of distance traveled during the suspension event based on the vehicle speed, initiation angle and the duration time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.