Vehicle attitude adjustment assembly
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1. An assembly for adjusting the attitude of any selected portion of a structure, the assembly comprising:
- a controller configured to connect to and control one or more jacks operable to change the attitude of a structure; and
a proportional tilt sensor connected to the controller and configured to be supported on the structure, the tilt sensor being configured to provide signals to the controller that represent the degree of longitudinal pitch and lateral roll of a portion of the structure the sensor is connected to, the controller being additionally configured to move any selected portion of the structure into a desired attitude by commanding movement of the entire structure into an attitude where the tilt sensor signals match any one of a number of different pre-set reference values corresponding to different desired attitudes of the selected portion of the structure.
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Abstract
An assembly for adjusting the attitude of any selected portion a structure such as a motor vehicle. A controller connects to and controls one or more jacks operable to change the attitude of a structure. A proportional tilt sensor is connected to the controller and is supported on the structure. The tilt sensor provides signals to the controller, which represent the degree of longitudinal pitch and lateral roll of a portion of the structure the sensor is connected to. The controller moves a selected portion of the structure into a desired attitude by commanding movement of the entire structure into an attitude where the tilt sensor signals match any one of a number of preset reference values corresponding to the desired attitude of the selected portion of the structure.
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1. An assembly for adjusting the attitude of any selected portion of a structure, the assembly comprising:
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a controller configured to connect to and control one or more jacks operable to change the attitude of a structure; and
a proportional tilt sensor connected to the controller and configured to be supported on the structure, the tilt sensor being configured to provide signals to the controller that represent the degree of longitudinal pitch and lateral roll of a portion of the structure the sensor is connected to, the controller being additionally configured to move any selected portion of the structure into a desired attitude by commanding movement of the entire structure into an attitude where the tilt sensor signals match any one of a number of different pre-set reference values corresponding to different desired attitudes of the selected portion of the structure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An assembly for adjusting the attitude of any selected portion of a structure, the assembly comprising:
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a controller configured to connect to and control one or more jacks operable to change the attitude of a structure;
a proportional tilt sensor connected to the controller and configured to be supported on the structure, the tilt sensor being configured to provide signals to the controller, which represent the degree of longitudinal pitch and lateral roll of the portion of the structure the sensor is supported on, the controller being configured to move any selected portion of the structure into a desired attitude by commanding movement of the entire structure into an attitude where the tilt sensor signals match any one of a number of different pre-set reference values corresponding to different desired attitudes of selected portions of the structure, thereby allowing any portion of the structure to be corrected to any desired attitude within a range of attitudes despite the location of the tilt sensor and allowing the tilt sensor to be located anywhere in the structure; and
a reference value selector connected to the controller and configured to transmit operator inputs to the controller, the controller being configured to select between the pre-set reference values in response to inputs received from the reference value selector. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for calibrating an attitude correction assembly to recognize when a selected portion of a structure the assembly is installed on is in a desired attitude relative to gravity;
- the method comprising the steps of;
providing a structure including jacks actuable to change the attitude of the structure;
providing an attitude correction assembly on the structure, the assembly including a controller and a tilt sensor;
actuating the jacks until the structure is in a first desired attitude;
providing an input to the controller indicating that the current set of signals being received from the tilt sensor is a first set of signal values that will represent the first desired attitude for the controller to reference when selected in future attitude correction operations;
actuating the jacks until the structure is in a second desired attitude relative to gravity; and
providing an input to the controller indicating that the current set of signals being received from the tilt sensor is a second set of signal values that will represent the second desired attitude for the controller to reference when selected in future attitude correction operations. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
- the method comprising the steps of;
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