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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170749 | Roll rigidity controller of vehicle A target roll angle of the vehicle is computed based on an actual lateral acceleration at the centroid of the vehicle, and the lateral acceleration of the vehicle at the centroid is corrected by use of lateral acceleration correction amounts based on a yaw rate of t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165751 | Method for detecting rollover of an automotive vehicle based on a lateral kinetic energy rate threshold A method for rollover sensing (12) that may be used in the determination of when to deploy restraints in a vehicle is disclosed herein. The method for rollover sensing (12) may include lateral acceleration sensors (22), a roll rate sensor (18... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8140221 | Motor vehicle having a vehicle body and a chassis A motor vehicle has a vehicle body and a chassis that has at least one wheel suspension device for two opposing wheel. An adjusting device is assigned to each of the wheels. The adjusting devices are coupled to one another by a stabilizer. At least two stabilizer be... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8121758 | System for determining torque and tire forces using integrated sensing system A vehicle (10) includes a control system (18) that is used to control a vehicle system. The control system determines an axle torque, and longitudinal forces at each tire in response to the axle torque. Lateral forces at each tire are determined in res... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116939 | Suspension system for vehicle A suspension system for a vehicle, including (a) four displacement force generators (152) each configured to generate a displacement force forcing sprung and unsprung portions of the vehicle toward or away from each other; and (b) a control unit (200) ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112200 | Motion control unit for vehicle based on jerk information In a motion control system for a vehicle including control means for controlling a yaw moment of the vehicle; first detection means for detecting a longitudinal velocity (V) of the vehicle; second detection means for detecting a lateral jerk (Gy_dot) of the vehicle;... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108104 | Tripped rollover mitigation and prevention systems and methods A rollover stability control system for a vehicle may include an object information device. An active suspension or an active steering system may be coupled to a wheel of the vehicle. The rollover system may include a lateral support system. A controller determines ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090501 | Control device for a variable damper A control device for controlling a variable damper of a wheel suspension system includes a first sensor detecting a first dynamic state variable of a vehicle body, a damping force base value determining unit determining a target damping force base value, a second se... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090500 | Control device for a variable damper In a control device for controlling a variable damper of a vehicle suspension system, when a stroke speed of the damper is within a range including a zero stroke speed, the target damping force is determined as a force opposing a current movement of the damper witho... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090499 | Anti-rollback control via grade information for hybrid and conventional vehicles A vehicle control system reduces vehicle rollback upon brake release. The control system includes a brake system, a vehicle grade measurement device and a controller that modulates applied brake pressure of the brake system based on a grade measurement of the grade ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8065056 | Vehicle roll control system A vehicle roll control system, comprising a front torsion bar(22), attached to the front hydraulic actuator (34) and a rear torsion bar (24) attached to the rear hydraulic actuator (34′). A pressure control valve (99) is fluidly ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065057 | Process and apparatus for the sway stabilization of a motor vehicle A process for stabilizing the sway of a motor vehicle, in which adjusting signals are generated for actuators associated with a front axis and with a rear axis of the motor vehicle on the basis of a measured or a calculated transverse acceleration of the motor vehic... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046130 | Motion control system for vehicle A motion control system is applied to a vehicle, which has front wheel side suspensions with an anti-dive geometry and rear wheel side suspensions with an anti-lift geometry. A degree of an anti-lift effect of the anti-lift geometry is larger than a degree of an ant... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036791 | Vehicular damping force control device A suspension ECU 13 calculates a target characteristic changing coefficient a_new for changing a target characteristic, which is represented by a quadratic function, by use of the maximum actual roll angle Φ_max generated in a vehicle body during the current... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027765 | Vehicle stabilizer system A stabilizer system for a vehicle that includes a stabilizer bar and an actuator for changing stiffness of the stabilizer bar, an electric current to be supplied to an electric motor that is a drive source of the actuator is changed based on various parameters. The ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8005592 | System for dynamically determining axle loadings of a moving vehicle using integrated sensing system and its application in vehicle dynamics controls A vehicle (10) includes a control system (18) that is used to control a vehicle system. The control system determines a wheel normal loading in response to heave motion wheel loading, attitude-based wheel loading, and vertical motion induced wheel load... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7991529 | Method and system for detecting a vibration level of a wheel within a resonating frequency range of a vehicle suspension A method that detects whether the vibration level of the wheel is within the resonating frequency range by utilizing discrete velocity measurements. The method includes continuously measuring velocity levels of a wheel relative to a sprung mass vehicle component. Th... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979180 | Motion control system for vehicle based on jerk information A motion control system for a vehicle including includes control means for controlling a yaw moment of the vehicle, first detection means for detecting a longitudinal velocity (V) of the vehicle, second detection means for detecting a lateral jerk (Gy_dot) of the ve... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979179 | Apparatus and method for pitch state estimation for a vehicle An apparatus and method for a pitch state estimator is provided. The pitch state estimator generates a pitch state signal for establishing the orientation used in the control of a ground-traversing vehicle. The vehicle has a support for supporting a load which is pr... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7949446 | Body-roll restraining system for vehicle A body-roll restraining system with high utility equipped with active stabilizer devices on a front-wheel side and a rear-wheel side of the vehicle and configured to generate roll restraining forces whose directions are opposite to each other, and maybe configured s... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7899594 | System and method for qualitatively determining vehicle loading conditions A control system (18) and method for an automotive vehicle (10) includes a controller (26) that determines whether or not a potential load change has occurred in a load change detector (59). A load change detector (59) may be coupl... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894955 | Method and apparatus for vehicle rollover mitigation A method is provided for detecting a rollover event of a vehicle. A lateral kinetic energy of the vehicle is determined in response to vehicle longitudinal velocity and vehicle side slip angle. A lateral acceleration of the vehicle is measured. A tire normal force i... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7831354 | Body state estimation of a vehicle The present invention features a system and method for estimating body states of a vehicle. The system includes at least two sensors mounted to the vehicle. The sensors generate measured vehicle state signals corresponding to the dynamics of the vehicle. A signal ad... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826948 | Vehicle loading based vehicle dynamic and safety related characteristic adjusting system A method of controlling a controllable chassis system or a safety system (44) for a vehicle (10) includes determining an added mass placed on the vehicle and relative to a known vehicle mass. A vehicle characteristic is adjusted in response to the adde... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7788007 | Roll stability indicator for vehicle rollover control A system and method for providing a vehicle roll stability indicator that estimates the propensity for vehicle rollover. The system determines vehicle kinematics from vehicle sensors, such as roll rate, yaw rate, lateral acceleration, vehicle speed, etc. From these ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7788006 | Rollover stability system including allowance for the steering angle In a rollover stability method for a vehicle in a situation which is critical with respect to the driving dynamics, a critical rollover situation is detected by analyzing a control variable and the stabilization intervention is activated or de-activated as a functio... | 08/31/2010 |
| RE41617 | Method for determining a longitudinal vehicle by compensating individual wheel speeds A control system (24) for controlling a safety system (40) of an automotive vehicle includes a plurality of wheel speed sensors (30) generating a plurality of wheel velocity signals, a steering angle sensor (39) generating a steering actu... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783402 | Vehicle stability control system A vehicle stability control system uses a physical quantity corresponding to a driver accelerator input to control engine power produced by an engine and to controllably drive an engine load device for regulating the engine power to produce a desired drive force. Th... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7751959 | Semi-active suspension system with anti-roll for a vehicle A suspension system includes four electronically controlled actuators, one at each of the four wheels. The actuators are each controlled by an electronic control unit. The left front and right front actuators are mechanically connected with each other. The left rear... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747368 | Vehicle damping force control with roll angle and pitch angle A damping force control apparatus with adjustable shock absorbers is disclosed. An electronic control unit calculates estimated roll angle and estimated pitch angle of a vehicle body based on detected sprung accelerations, calculates a target pitch angle from the es... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747367 | Vehicle physical quantity estimation apparatus and storage medium having stored thereon computer program relating to the apparatus A vehicle physical quantity estimating device including: a longitudinal vehicle body velocity estimating unit, estimating a longitudinal vehicle body velocity based on vehicle wheel velocities of each wheel; a longitudinal/lateral acceleration state value deviation ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7725226 | Vehicle suspension system with roll stiffness distribution control In a target rotational angle determining routine, based on a roll moment and longitudinal acceleration that are calculated, target rotational angles of actuators on a subject side (one of front-wheel and rear-wheel sides) and a counterpart side are obtained using a ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715963 | Stabilizer control apparatus In a stabilizer control apparatus for controlling a torsional rigidity of a stabilizer of a vehicle, an actual lateral acceleration and a calculated lateral acceleration are obtained. Then, influence amount caused by the calculated lateral acceleration is set to be ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7676307 | System and method for controlling a safety system of a vehicle in response to conditions sensed by tire sensors related applications A control system for a vehicle (10) is described for use in conjunction with the safety system (44) of the vehicle (10). A tire sensor or plurality of tire sensors generates tire force signals. The tire force signals may include lateral tire for... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672765 | Enhanced roll stability indicator for vehicle rollover control A system and method for providing a vehicle roll stability indicator that dynamically estimates the probability for vehicle rollover. The system determines vehicle kinematics from various vehicle sensors. From these kinematic values, the system estimates a roll angl... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672766 | Suspension control device, vehicle comprising said device, production method thereof and associated program The invention relates to a device for controlling the suspension of the body shell of a motor vehicle. According to the invention, the device comprises: a means (21) for calculating a set modal stress (F1) for the sho... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7664582 | Automobile and control method of automobile In an automobile of the invention, a cornering drag estimator 61 estimates a cornering drag from measurements of steering angle θ and vehicle speed V. A gain multiplier 62 multiplies the estimated cornering drag by a preset gain K to reduce the estima... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657353 | Roll increasing tendency estimation apparatus According to a roll increasing tendency estimation apparatus, a state variable is calculated in response to magnitude of a rolling moment of the vehicle, to provide a roll input magnitude, and a state variable is calculated in response to variation in time of the ro... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7647148 | Roll stability control system for an automotive vehicle using coordinated control of anti-roll bar and brakes A roll stability control system (18) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes an active anti-roll bar system (62) and a rollover sensor (40) that generates a roll attitude signal indicative of a pending rollover of the vehicle. A controlle... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7613555 | Vehicular rollover prevention control device A start threshold value for rollover prevention control is changed based upon a ratio between an actual lateral G and a reference lateral G. Accordingly, the ratio between the actual lateral G and the reference lateral G is a parameter that indicates a vehicle condi... | 11/03/2009 |
