US 7,096,170 B2Granted

Method of assisting the design of a vehicular suspension

AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorShigehisa Fujita

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Abstract

To provide a method of assisting in the design of a vehicular suspension by allowing definition points inherent in suspensions to be easily recognized regardless of the different types and mechanisms thereof, and allowing specification values to be simply entered at the definition points. A method of assisting in the design of a vehicular suspension to generate a simulation model for a suspension using a CAD system includes the steps of indicating a suspension to be designed, opening a specification value entering window for entering specification values inherent in the indicated suspension, entering specification values at definition points inherent in the indicated suspension in the specification value entering window, and generating a simulation model based on the specification values at the definition points.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A method of assisting in the design of a vehicular suspension to generate a simulation model for a suspension using a CAD system, comprising the steps of:

indicating a suspension to be designed;
opening a specification value entering window for entering specification values corresponding to the indicated suspension predetermined definition points thereof;
opening a first analytic window for displaying a first analytic model of the indicated suspension and the predetermined definition points thereof;
opening a second analytic window for displaying a second analytic model of the indicated suspension and the predetermined definition points thereof;
entering the specification values corresponding to the predetermined definition points of the indicated suspension in any one of said specification value entering window, said first analytic window, or said second analytic window;
reflecting the specification values associated with the predetermined definition points that have been entered in one of the windows so that the specification values are associated with the predetermined definition points as shown in each of the two other windows;
and
generating a simulation model based on the specification values at the predetermined definition points.

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An apparatus for assisting in the design of a vehicular suspension to generate a simulation model for a suspension using a CAD system, comprising:

means for indicating a suspension to be designed;
means for opening a specification value entering window for entering specification values corresponding to the indicated suspension predetermined definition points thereof;
means for opening a first analytic window for displaying a first analytic model of the indicated suspension and the predetermined definition points thereof;
means for opening a second analytic window for displaying a second analytic model of the indicated suspension and the predetermined definition points thereof;
means for entering specification values corresponding to the predetermined definition points of the indicated suspension in any one of said specification value entering window, said first analytic window, or said second analytic window;
means for reflecting the specification values associated with the predetermined reference points that have been entered in the one of the windows so that the specification values are associated with the predetermined definition points as shown in each of the two other windows;
and
means for generating a simulation model based on the specification values at the predetermined definition points.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/820,230Filed 29 Mar 2001
Priority: JP 2000-09118829 Mar 2000
Published: US 2001/0032065 A118 Oct 2001
Granted: 22 Aug 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06F 30/15
Geometric CAD: vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design
B60G 11/00
Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location or kind of springs
B60G 13/00
Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location or type of vibration dampers
B60G 15/00
Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location or type of combined spring and