VEHICLE POSTURE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING VEHICLE HEIGHT

• Main Authors: OZAWA TAKUMI, MATSUMOTO YUKI, ENDO DAIJIRO, MORISHITA FUMIHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 14.10.2022
• Subjects: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE SUSPENSION ARRANGEMENTS; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

To secure the stability of a vehicle by adjusting a vehicle height at which the vehicle is stabilized.SOLUTION: A vehicle 100 (a vehicle posture control device) includes: a vehicle height adjustment device 5 that adjusts a vehicle height at a position of each wheel 3 of a vehicle body 1; vehicle height control means 9 that controls vehicle height adjustment by a vehicle height adjustment device 5; puncture detection means 11 that detects a puncture of the wheel 3; and an ECU 10 (stop determination means) that determines whether the vehicle 1 is traveling or stopped; wherein the vehicle height control means 9 adjusts the vehicle height of the vehicle 100 to a predetermined height when the puncture detection means 11 detects a puncture of the wheel 3 and the ECU 10 determines that the vehicle is traveling.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】車両が安定する高さで車高を調整して、車両の安定性を確保することができる。【解決手段】車両１００（車両姿勢制御装置）は、車体１における各車輪３の位置での車高を調整する車高調整装置５と、車高調整装置５による車高調整を制御する車高制御手段９と、車輪３のパンクを検知するパンク検知手段１１と、車両１が走行中か停車中かを判定するＥＣＵ１０（停車判定手段）と、を備え、車高制御手段９は、パンク検知手段１１が車輪３のパンクを検知し、かつ、ＥＣＵ１０が走行中と判定した場合、車両１００が所定の車高になるように車高を調整する。【選択図】図１