Patent ID: 6564129
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: B60G

Abstract:
A method of controlling a motor vehicle having a body supported on a front pair of wheels with front suspension apparatus providing vertical wheel constraint and roll stiffness and a rear pair of wheels with rear suspension apparatus providing vertical wheel constraint and rear roll stiffness, a vehicle acceleration producing device coupled to at least one of the front pair of wheels and the rear pair of wheels, and a control for the acceleration producing device, the method comprising the steps:responsive to the control, sensing a commanded forward vehicle acceleration, and during the forward vehicle acceleration, controlling at least one of the front suspension apparatus and the rear suspension apparatus to produce a lessening of vertical wheel constraint in the one of the front pair of wheels and the rear pair of wheels coupled to the vehicle acceleration producing device, relative to the other of the front pair of wheels and the rear pair of wheels, wherein the one of the front suspension apparatus and the rear suspension apparatus is a variable anti-sway apparatus coupling the driven wheels and it is varied in direction to permit greater independence in vertical motion between the driven wheels.