Patent ID: 7429050

Claim:
A system for adjusting a height of an automotive vehicle having four wheels consisting of a front-right wheel, a front-left wheel, a rear-right wheel, and a rear-left wheel, the system comprising: four height adjusters provided for the four wheels respectively; and a controller for controlling, based on each of respective target levels corresponding to four positions corresponding to the four wheels, an operation of a corresponding one of the four height adjusters so as to adjust the vehicle height at a corresponding one of the four positions corresponding to the four wheels, the controller including: an initial control portion which controls, based on a single adjustment request, the operation of at least one of the four height adjusters such that the vehicle height is initially changed at at least two of the four positions, in a first direction which is one of an upward direction and a downward direction, and then in a second direction which is the other of the upward and downward directions; and a final control portion which controls, after the operation of the at least one height adjuster is controlled by the initial control portion, the respective operations of all of the four height adjusters, such that the vehicle height is changed at all of the four positions to the respective target levels.