Active damper system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9545831-B2
Application number	US-201314760246-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2013
Priority date	Jan 11, 2013
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

An active damper system for damping high-frequency vibration excitation of the vehicle body, includes a damper bearing to support a vehicle chassis component on the vehicle body, wherein the damper bearing includes a first bearing element for fastening to the vehicle body and a second bearing element for fastening to the vehicle chassis component; an active actuating element connecting the first and second bearing elements; a first acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration of the vehicle body; a control unit connected to the acceleration sensor and receiving a vertical acceleration of the vehicle body as input variable from the acceleration sensor, wherein the control unit influences the active actuation element. The active damper system includes a second acceleration sensor arranged on the second bearing element.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An active damper system for damping high-frequency vibration excitation of a vehicle body, comprising:
a damper bearing to support a vehicle chassis component on the vehicle body, said damper bearing comprising a first bearing element for fastening to the vehicle body and a second bearing element for fastening to the vehicle chassis component, said second bearing element being coupled to the chassis component via an elastomer connection;
an active actuating element connecting the first and second bearing elements;
a first acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration of the vehicle body;
a second acceleration sensor arranged on the second bearing; and
a control unit connected to the first and second acceleration sensors and receiving a vertical acceleration of the vehicle body as input variable from the first acceleration sensor, said control unit influencing the active actuating element.

2. The active damper system of claim 1 , wherein the second bearing element is an outer ring of the damper bearing and is connected to a piston rod via an elastomer component.

3. A method for damping high-frequency vibrations into a vehicle body via a vehicle chassis component, said method comprising:
providing a damper system which comprises a damper bearing to support a vehicle chassis component on the vehicle body, and an active actuating element connecting the first and second bearing elements, said damper bearing comprising a first bearing element for fastening to the vehicle body and a second bearing element for fastening to the vehicle chassis component, said second bearing element being coupled to the chassis component via an elastomer connection;
measuring a vertical acceleration of the vehicle body with a first acceleration sensor;
measuring a vertical acceleration of the second bearing element with a second acceleration sensor arranged on the second bearing element; and
with the controller influencing the active actuating element so that the vibration is reduced by minimizing the vertical acceleration of the vehicle body, wherein the vertical acceleration of the second bearing element influences a behavior of the controller.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the controller is constructed as PID, PI or PD-controller.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Willems Marco

Classifications

• F16F9/54

  Arrangements for attachment {(grommet-type rubber mounting springs per se F16F1/3732; construction of cylinder ends F16F9/3242; attachments to vehicles B60G13/001, B60G15/00)} · CPC title

• B60G15/00

  Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location or type of combined spring and vibration damper, e.g. telescopic type (combined spring and vibration-dampers per se F16F) · CPC title

• B60G2800/162

  Reducing road induced vibrations · CPC title

• B60G7/006

  Attaching arms to sprung or unsprung part of vehicle, characterised by comprising attachment means controlled by an external actuator, e.g. a fluid or electrical motor (B62D7/146 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60G2204/11

  Mounting of sensors thereon · CPC title