Patent ID: 9469175
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: B60G,F16F

Claim Text:
1. A shock absorber system installed on a vehicle which has four wheels and in which a VSC control for giving a braking force to any of the four wheels is to be executed to reduce an improper turning behavior of the vehicle due to an excessive side slip of any of the four wheels, comprising: four hydraulic shock absorbers which are provided for the respective four wheels and each of which is disposed between a corresponding sprung portion and a corresponding unsprung portion of the vehicle, each of the four hydraulic shock absorbers being configured each of the four hydraulic shock absorbers having a damping-force changer configured a controller configured to control the damping force to be generated by each of the four hydraulic shock absorbers by controlling the damping-force changer of each of the four hydraulic shock absorbers, wherein the controller is configured such that, when the improper turning behavior occurs, the controller executes, prior to execution of the VSC control, a reduction control in which the damping force to be generated by at least one of the four hydraulic shock absorbers is controlled to reduce the improper turning behavior.