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US 8,886,404 · App. 13/474,141 · Granted Nov 11, 2014

Control system for a motor vehicle with a box body and motor vehicle

Inventors: Bodo Hanisch (Overath, DE); Martin Schumacher (Siegburg, DE); Georg Hoppe (Waldbroel, DE)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
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Patent No.
US 8,886,404
App. No.
13/474,141
Granted
Nov 11, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a control system for a motor vehicle, especially for a commercial vehicle that has a box body supportable on a chassis, with at least one detection means generating detection data for detecting the road profile in front of the vehicle in the direction of travel and a control device for controlling at least one controllable spring and/or damper unit depending on the detected data, wherein the at least one spring and/or damper unit for suspension and damping of the box body in the direction of a vertical axis of the vehicle can be connected to the box body and the chassis.

Claims (15)

1. A control system for a motor vehicle, especially for a commercial vehicle, that has a box body supportable on a chassis, with at least one detection means generating detection data for detecting the road profile in front of the vehicle in the direction of travel and a control device for controlling at least one controllable spring and/or damper unit depending on the detected data,

wherein

the at least one spring and/or damper unit for suspension and damping of the box body at least in the direction of a vertical axis of the vehicle is connected to the box body and the chassis so that depending on the number and arrangement of the spring and/or damper devices, pitch, roll and/or vertical travel motions of the chassis can be compensated by the control system.

2. The control system as claimed in claim 1 , which comprises:

a multiplicity of controllable spring and/or damper devices, which can be controlled independently of each other.

3. The control system as claimed in claim 1 , which comprises:

one or more sensors, which detect acceleration parameters describing the motion of the box body, in particular a box body acceleration in the direction of the vertical axis of the vehicle and/or a pitch angle acceleration of the box body and/or a roll angle acceleration of the box body.

4. The control system as claimed in claim 1 which comprises:

one or more sensors, which detect the position of the box body relative to a reference plane, wherein the reference plane is determined by the extension plane of the vehicle chassis.

5. A motor vehicle, especially a commercial vehicle with a box body supported on a chassis, which comprises:

a control system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the box body is connected to the chassis via the at least one spring and/or damper unit for suspension and damping, at least in the direction of a vertical axis of said vehicle.

6. The control system as claimed in claim 2 , which comprises:

one or more sensors, which detect acceleration parameters describing the motion of the box body, in particular a box body acceleration in the direction of the vertical axis of the vehicle and/or a pitch angle acceleration of the box body and/or a roll angle acceleration of the box body.

7. The control system as claimed in claim 2 which comprises:

one or more sensors, which detect the position of the box body relative to a reference plane, wherein the reference plane is determined by the extension plane of the vehicle chassis.

Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2011 076 043 · May 18, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
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