Appeal No. 1996-3507
Application 08/041,209
(c) an SH region in which extension is lightly damped and
contraction is highly damped.
Figures 13 and 14 together show the flowchart of a
routine comprising a first embodiment of appellants' control
system, with Figure 13 showing the steps involved in
suppressing squatting as the vehicle accelerates from a
stopped or parked position. When the vehicle speed (detected
at step 101) is determined at step 102 to be equal to zero,
the front shock absorbers are set to a value in the HS range
(high extension damping, low compression damping) and the rear
shock absorbers are set to a value in the SH range (high
compression damping, low extension damping) (Spec. at 11, line
9 to p. 12, line 10). The result is that the damping
coefficients are set at the values required for squatting
suppression prior to the time the vehicle begins to accelerate
from a stopped position.
Whenever it is determined at step 102 that the vehicle
speed is not equal to zero, the routine proceeds instead to
step 104 for what is termed "basic control" (Spec. at 11,
lines 23-26). This basic control routine, which presumably is
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