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US 4,519,627 AGranted
Automative compliance steering control supension
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasuji Shibahata, Namio Irie, Kazuo Ikawa, Yohsuke Akatsu
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Abstract
To control the compliance steering of the rear wheels of a vehicle during cornering or the like, a link member of the rear suspension arrangements supporting each of the rear road wheels, is provided with a servo mechansim which can vary the length thereof in a manner which tends to steer the rear wheel associated therewith in the same direction as the front wheels are turned to produce the cornering.
Claims12
In a suspension for a vehicle having a chassis and a road wheel, comprising:
- a first link operatively interconnecting said road wheel and said chassis, said first link extending from a location forward of the axis of rotation of said road wheel in a direction essentially toward said axis;
- a second link operatively connecting said road wheel to said chassis, said second link extending from a location inboard of said road wheel toward said road wheel;
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- a control arrangement associated with said second link for varying the length thereof in response to a sensed parameter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.