Rear suspension systems with rotary devices for laterally tiltable multitrack vehicles

US10023019B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Robert Spahl · Cologne, DE
• Marc Simon · Whitefish Bay, US
• Edmund Halfmann · Neuss, DE
• Thomas Gerhards · Niederzier, DE
• Rainer Souschek · Aachen, DE
• Ralf Hintzen · Aachen, DE
• Daniel Mainz · Herzogenrath, DE
• Martin Saeger · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 24, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 17, 2018
• Expiry date: Feb 24, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60G2300/45
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A suspension system for a laterally tiltable, multitrack vehicle may include a balancer system extending between first and second trailing arms. The suspension system may further include a rotary device acting between the trailing arms. One of the balancer system and the rotary device may be configured to provide a torque to influence a leaning angle of the vehicle and the other of the balancer system and the rotary device may be configured to suppress resonant vertical motion of the vehicle.