Appeal No. 1996-3507
Application 08/041,209
shown in Figure 14, controls the damping coefficients during2
driving.
Figure 16 illustrates an alternate routine for
suppressing squatting, which takes into account both vehicle
speed and the
vertical speeds of the portions of the vehicle body adjacent
to the shock absorbers. Specifically, after the vehicle speed
is detected at step 302 to be substantially zero and after the
vertical speed has been determined to be between positive
threshold value V and negative threshold value V for aA B
predetermined period of time )t (steps 303 and 304), 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) (step 305). As in the first
embodiment, the result is that the damping coefficients are
set at the values required for squatting suppression prior to
2In Figure 14, it would appear that step 201 should be
shown as receiving an input from step 102 rather than from
step 104. Likewise, the specification appears to be in error
in stating (at 12, lines 11-12) that "after step 104 the
routine proceeds to step 201" (emphasis added).
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