Patent ID: 8311704
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: B60G

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus of a variable damping force damper used to suspend a vehicle body of a vehicle, comprising: a vertical dynamic state quantity detecting unit configured to detect at least one vertical dynamic state quantity which comprises at least an actual stroke speed of the damper; and a dynamic state quantity detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of dynamic state quantities selected from a group consisting of a lateral acceleration, a fore and aft acceleration, and a yaw rate of the vehicle body; wherein the control apparatus comprises a target damping force setting unit for setting a target damping force of the variable damping force damper based on at least part of the plurality of dynamic state quantities of the vehicle and is configured to set a target control quantity of the variable damping force damper based on the selected plurality of dynamic state quantities of the vehicle, and to reduce the target control quantity according to the at least one vertical dynamic state quantity when the target damping force set by the target damping force setting unit is greater than a threshold value.