Abstract:
An arrangement for a suspension for a load carrying vehicle is provided. The suspension is provided with air springs and comprises at least one front axle and at least two rear axles, and each rear axle is provided with at least one pair of corresponding suspension air springs and at least one air spring is provided for lifting one of the rear axles. The suspension air springs for at least the rearmost axle is connected to the air spring for lifting one of the rear axles by a conduit for compressed air, which conduit is provided with a controllable valve, whereby the controllable valve is arranged to open during a vehicle loading process. A vehicle provided with the arrangement, and a method for carrying out a loading operation using the arrangement, are also described.
Abstract:
A pneumatic-spring wheel-suspension leg for motor vehicles. The leg comprises a bellows (1) that can be rolled up over a jacket (3) and accommodates a pneumatics chamber (9), a hydraulic dashpot inside the bellows or jacket, and a piston rod (5) that travels into and out of the dashpot and is attached axially and resiliently directly or indirectly at one end to the vehicle's chassis. The object is to relieve the dashpot of difficult attenuation tasks when a hard wheel suspension is necessary. The leg accordingly includes another pneumatics chamber (10) and the communication between the two pneumatics chambers can be partly or entirely blocked by a valve.
Abstract:
A suspension control system and a method for controlling a damper device of a bicycle include a damper device and a spring device for sprung damping of a relative motion between a first and a second component of the bicycle. The suspension device has a spring unit exhibiting a spring characteristic, and the damper device exhibits a damping characteristic. The spring characteristic of the spring unit is changed under the control of an electrically operated actuator, which in turn is controlled via an electric control device.
Abstract:
An active air suspension system includes an air spring assembly that has a piston airbag and a primary airbag mounted around the piston airbag to provide a variable force and rate dual air spring configuration. The air suspension system is configured to accurately control pressure within the system in a closed-loop manner.
Abstract:
An active, independent suspension system has dual piston, compressible fluid struts (22). Each of the dual piston struts (22) has an outer cylinder (24) and an outer piston rod (30), which each respectively define exterior peripheries for an outer pressure chamber (32) and an inner pressure chamber (54). Pressures applied to a compressible fluid (56) in respective ones of the outer and inner pressure chambers (32, 54) urge the outer piston to extend from within the outer cylinder (24). A control system (240) is provided for actively controlling an amount of compressible fluid (56) disposed within each of the outer and inner chambers (32, 54).
Abstract:
An air spring strut is mounted between a chassis of a motor vehicle and a wheel support of a wheel suspension and takes up wheel transverse forces. The air spring strut includes: an air spring including an outer hollow cylinder (8) and an inner hollow cylinder (9). A piston is arranged within the inner hollow cylinder (9) and is connected to the outer hollow cylinder (8). A first rolling-lobe resilient member (10) is arranged between the outer hollow cylinder (8) and the inner hollow cylinder (9) so as to seal off an outer air chamber. A second rolling-lobe resilient member (11) is arranged between the inner hollow cylinder (9) and the piston (2) so as to seal off an inner air chamber (7). The inner hollow cylinder (9) is articulately connected to the wheel support (3). The inner hollow cylinder (9) and the outer hollow cylinder (8) are arranged eccentrically to each other.
Abstract:
An air spring includes essentially an air spring cover (2), a rolling-lobe flexible member (9) and a roll-off piston which conjointly define a variable air spring space. Air springs are increasingly provided with an additional volume (4) in order to configure the spring performance more comfortably. For this purpose, the air spring cover (2) includes two shells (2a, 2b) which function as a housing for the wanted additional volume (4). The half-shells (2a, 2b) are especially deep drawn or injected air spring covers. To produce a cost effective, air-tight and high-strength connection of the two shells (2a, 2b), the shells (2a, 2b), which are to be connected, are connected by a flanging operation to each other or, the connection of the two shells (2a, 2b) is established by flange connecting a flanging clamp (10) over the common edge of the two shells. The flanging clamp (10) is made of a plastic deformable material.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to suspension systems, control methods, and vehicles. One example suspension system includes a suspension assembly, a driver, a controller, a compressor, and a gas tank. The suspension assembly has a gas spring and a height sensor. The gas tank contains gas, the gas tank is connected to the compressor through a first ventilation pipe, and the compressor is connected to the gas spring through a second ventilation pipe. A first switch valve is disposed on the first ventilation pipe, and a second switch valve is disposed on the second ventilation pipe. The driver is separately electrically connected to the controller, the compressor, the first switch valve, the second switch valve, and the height sensor. The suspension system is installed between a wheel and a vehicle body of the vehicle.
Abstract:
An air spring module including an air spring and a shock absorber for springing and damping vibrations of a motor vehicle chassis, including—at least two working chambers filled with compressed air and connectable via at least one valve, an air spring cover, a rolling bellows fixed to the air spring cover in an air-tight manner and at least partly delimits a first working chamber filled with compressed air, and a rolling piston, which is fixed to a cylindrical tube of the shock absorber and on which the rolling bellows rolls. A second and a third working chamber are arranged one above the other in the rolling piston so as to surround the cylindrical tube. The working chambers are separated from each other by an intermediate floor provided in the rolling piston and can be connected to the first working chamber via switchable valves arranged in the rolling piston.
Abstract:
An apparatus having a suspension system with a first part which is acted upon by a mass, a second part, and also an air spring arranged between this first part and this second part. At least one supplementary volume device for air is provided, the volume of which can be varied in a controlled manner, and also a first control device for adjusting the volume of the supplementary volume device.