US 4,838,563 AGranted

Mounting structure for vehicle height sensor

AssigneesNissan Motor Co., Ltd., Atsugi Motor Parts Company, Limited

InventorsJunkichi Konishi, Kenichi Tsukada, Tomoyoshi Sekiguchi, Masanori Kouda, Minoru Suzuki

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Abstract

A mounting structure of a vehicle height sensor employs a reference height indicative marking put on a sensor body to be rigidly fixed onto a vehicle body, which marking represents a position of a movable sensor component corresponding to a predetermined vehicular height indicative signal level. On the other hand, a target height indicative marking is put on the vehicle body. Alignment of the vehicle height sensor can be adjusted with reference to the reference height indicative marking and the target height indicative marking. Alignment of the vehicle height sensor is achieved by aligning the reference height indicative marking to the target height indicative marking.

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Dependent claims

A mounting structure for a vehicle height sensor for monitoring relative distance between a vehicular body and a suspension member rotatably supporting a vehicular wheel, comprising:

a sensor body housing therein a vehicular height sensor mechanism therewithin, said sensor body being mounted on said vehicular body, said vehicular height sensor mechanism including a movable member extending from said sensor body and to be associated with said suspension member for movement according to vertical displacement between said vehicular body and said suspension member;
a first means, associated with said vehicular body, for indicating a first reference point on said vehicular body, which first reference point is determined relative to a height position of said suspension member when the relative distance between said vehicular body and said suspension member is held at a predetermined first reference value;
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a second means, associated with said sensor body, for indicating a second reference point and to be aligned with said first reference point in mounting said sensor body onto said vehicular body, said second means deriving said first point based on a reference position of said movable member, at which a value of a vehicular height indicative sensor signal generated by said vehicle height sensor is held at a predetermined second reference value representative of said relative distance held at said first reference value.

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A method for mounting a vehicle height sensor on a vehicular body for monitoring relative distance between said vehicular body and a suspension member rotatably supporting a vehicular wheel, which vehicle height sensor comprising a sensor body housing therein a vehicular height sensor mechanism therewithin, said sensor body being mounted on said vehicular body, said vehicular height sensor mechanism including a movable member extending from said sensor body and to be associated with said suspension member for movement according to vertical displacement between said vehicular body and said suspension member, said method comprising the steps of:

indicating a first reference point by means of a first mark on said vehicular body, which first reference point is determined relative to a height position of said suspension member when the relative distance between said vehicular body and said suspension member is held at a predetermined first reference value;
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indicating a second reference point by means of a second mark which is to be aligned with said first mark in mounting said sensor body onto said vehicular body, said second reference point being derived on the basis of a reference position of said movable member, at which a value of a vehicular height indicative sensor signal generated by said vehicle height sensor is held at a predetermined second reference value representative of said relative distance held at said first reference value.

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