Patent ID: 7013206

Claim:
A method for controlling the damping force for at least one vibration damper of a vehicle wheel suspension of a vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: providing a damper for generating a damper force and said damper having a damper characteristic adjustable within an adjusting range for the damping force delimited by upper and lower limit values; detecting a first signal representing the vertical velocity at a part of said vehicle chassis as a suspended mass; detecting a second signal representing the vertical velocity of the unsuspended wheel mass; computing an input control signal based on said first and second signals for adjusting said damper characteristic within said adjusting range in accordance with a standard control process; discretely or continuously adjusting said damping characteristic to said input control signal; and, changing said adjusting range in dependence upon specific driving situations so as to cause one or both of said upper and lower limits to be raised or lowered.