Patent ID: 8718871
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B60G

Abstract:
1. A method for setting the damping force for at least one motor vehicle vibration damper which is connected between a vehicle body and a wheel, wherein, for the vibration damper or for each vibration damper, a control device: determines and sets a damping force within an actuating range defined by a lower limiting value and an upper limiting value, as a function of a vertical movement of the vehicle body and as a function of a vertical movement of the respective wheel; determines the lower limiting value of the actuating range as a function of the vertical movement of the vehicle body and as a function of the vertical movement of the respective wheel; determines the lower limiting value of the actuating range as a function of a vertical movement direction of the vehicle body and as a function of a vertical relative movement between the vehicle body and the respective wheel; divides the vertical movement direction of the vehicle body and the vertical relative movement between the vehicle body and the respective wheel are divided into a plurality of ranges comprising a first range in which the vehicle body moves upward and the respective wheel moves downward or more slowly upward, a second range in which the vehicle body moves downward and the respective wheel moves more quickly downward, a third range in which the vehicle body moves downward and the respective wheel moves upward or more slowly downward, and a fourth range in which the vehicle body moves upward and the respective wheel moves more quickly upward; and determines an individual, lower limiting value of the actuating range, which differs from the other ranges, for at least one of these ranges.