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Active vehicle suspension

  • US 7,427,072 B2
  • Filed: 06/18/2004
  • Issued: 09/23/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An active wheel suspension for suspending a wheel assembly from a sprung body of a wheeled vehicle, and adapted to permit a center of the wheel assembly to move relative to the sprung body through a jounce and rebound travel and defining a wheel center locus path relative to the body, the suspension comprising:

  • an actuator connected to both the wheel assembly and the sprung body and adapted to apply an active control force between the body and wheel assembly to move the wheel assembly;

    wherein a tangent to the wheel center locus path is inclined rearward at an angle that corresponds to a resultant direction of a road surface force such that the active control force is applied on the wheel assembly in a direction opposite to the resultant direction.

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