Patent ID: 6711482
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: B60G

Abstract:
A vehicular suspension rigidity controlling apparatus, comprising:a plurality of suspensions, each suspension being intervened between a sprung mass of a vehicle body and an unsprung mass of a corresponding road wheel; a suspension rigidity adjusting section that is enabled to adjust a rigidity of each suspension; a driving state detecting section that detects a driving state of the vehicle; a vehicular roll-over determining section that predictively determines whether the vehicular driving state is a state in which there is a possibility that the vehicle is rolled over from the detected driving state of the vehicle; and a suspension controlling section that controllably adjusts the rigidity of at least one of the suspensions via the suspension rigidity adjusting section in a direction to decrease a potential energy of the sprung mass of the vehicle when the vehicular roll-over determining section predictively determines that the vehicular driving state is the state that there is the possibility that the vehicle is rolled over.