US 6,983,201 B2
Vehicle height adjustment system
Kenya Misawa, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Isuzu Motors Limited, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on May 27, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/854,263.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-160340 (JP), filed on Jun. 05, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0010343 A1, Jan. 13, 2005
Int. Cl. B60G 23/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 701—37 2 Claims
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1. A vehicle height adjustment system for adjusting a vehicle height of a vehicle by controlling supply and discharge of air to/from an air spring, the vehicle having a body frame, and under member being disposed below the body frame and supporting an axle, and the air spring disposed between the body frame and the under member, the vehicle height adjustment system comprising:
a height sensor;
a pair of a stopper and a stopper receiving portion at least one of which has an elastically deformable portion and both of which are respectively fixed to one of the body frame and the under member and to the other thereof, the pair coming into contact with each other at a vehicle height lowest position where the body frame comes at a lowest level, and the pair thus preventing the body frame from being lowered below the vehicle height lowest position,
mode setting means for selectively setting an adjustment range setting mode for setting a vehicle height adjustment range and a vehicle height adjusting mode for adjusting the vehicle height,
vehicle height lower limit setting means for setting a vehicle height lower limit by adding a lower limit setting predetermined value to a vehicle height measured value when the vehicle frame is at the vehicle height lowest position while the mode setting means is set to the adjustment range setting mode, the vehicle height setting predetermined value having a quantity equal to or larger than a deformed quantity of the elastically deformable portion of when the body frame is at the vehicle height lowest position, and the vehicle height measured value being outputted from the height sensor; and
air controlling means for stopping discharge of air from the air spring when the vehicle height measured value outputted from the height sensor becomes equal to or smaller than the vehicle height lower limit while the mode setting means is set to the vehicle height adjusting mode.