Patent ID: 8280585

Claim:
A method for the axle load-dependent control of an electronically controlled damping system in a motor vehicle having a vehicle body, which damping system has at least one vibration damper with an electronically controllable actuator for adjusting a damping behavior of the vibration damper on at least one wheel suspension of the vehicle and an open-and closed-loop control unit actively connected to the actuator for the open-loop/closed-loop control of the damping behavior of the controllable vibration damper, the method comprises the steps of: determining at least one characteristic quantity varying with different axle load conditions of an axle of the vehicle based on a natural frequency of vibrations of the vehicle body; determining a correcting variable for the actuator of the vibration damper based on the characteristic quantity; and transmitting the correcting variable to the actuator of the vibration damper to adjust a damping behavior of the vibration damper.