Vehicle seat or vehicle cab with a suspension system, and utility vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9758078-B2
Application number	US-201414915375-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2014
Priority date	Oct 1, 2013
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

The invention relates to a vehicle seat or a vehicle cab with a suspension system comprising an upper closing part and a lower closing part which is deflectable in relation to the upper closing part, which closing parts are operatively connected to each other in a resilient manner by means of a suspension element, and with a damping system for damping vibrations acting on at least one of the two closing parts, wherein an electromagnetically acting damping and height-levelling unit is provided which is arranged between the two closing parts in such a manner that said damping and height-levelling unit acts on the upper of the two closing parts in the vertical direction of the vehicle both in a vibration-insulating and also height-levelling manner.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat or vehicle cab comprising:
a suspension device including an upper end part and a lower end part that is deflectable relative to the upper end part, which parts are resiliently operatively interconnected by means of a suspension element, and
a damping device for damping vibrations acting on at least one of the two end parts, characterised by an electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit which is located along a rotational axis that passes through a pivot point of a scissors type frame interconnecting the upper end part and the lower end part, and is arranged between the two end parts such that it acts on the upper of the two end parts in a vertical direction of the vehicle in both a vibration-isolating manner and a height-adjusting manner.

2. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , wherein the damping device and a height-adjusting device for adjusting a distance between the upper end part and the lower end part in the vertical direction of the vehicle together comprise the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit, by means of which a torque acting in the vertical direction of the vehicle can be generated.

3. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , wherein a rotor of the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit comprises a rotational-axis element of two rotationally interconnected scissor arm parts of the scissors type frame coupling the two end parts to one another.

4. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , wherein a drive unit of a rotor of the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit is arranged on a first scissor arm part of the scissors type frame coupling the two end parts to one another and a stator of the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit is arranged on a second scissor arm part of the scissors type frame.

5. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 4 , wherein the stator comprises an electrically controllable electromagnet element or a permanent-magnet element.

6. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 3 , wherein the rotor is mounted relative to a stator such that it can move axially along a rotational axis of the rotational-axis element.

7. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , characterised by an open-loop and/or closed-loop control device for adjusting the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit depending on a load acting on the upper end part.

8. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 7 , characterised by the open-loop and/or closed-loop control device comprising an acceleration-measuring sensor which is arranged on the face of the lower end part and is intended for detecting accelerations acting on the lower end part.

9. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 7 , wherein the open-loop and/or closed-loop control device comprises a travel-measuring sensor for detecting a distance and/or a distance variation between the upper and the lower end part.

10. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , wherein the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit comprises an eddy current brake.

11. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , wherein the scissors type frame comprises a first pair scissor arm parts and a second pair of scissor arm parts, wherein each pair of scissor arm parts are made up of first and second scissor arm parts which are rotationally interconnected at the pivot point in the center of a longitudinal extension of the scissor arm parts.

12. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 11 , wherein the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit is arranged between the first pair of scissor arm parts and the second pair of scissor arm parts.

13. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , wherein the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting unit comprises a pole friction clutch.

14. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 1 , wherein the suspension device further comprises a suspension element by means of which the upper end part and the lower end part are resiliently interconnected.

15. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 11 , wherein the damping device comprises a hydraulic shock absorber element which is attached to a cross bar of a common lower movable-bearing device which connects second scissor arm parts.

16. The vehicle seat or vehicle cab according to claim 4 , wherein an electromagnetic effect of the electromagnetically acting damping and height-adjusting element is influenced by a relative axial movement between the rotor and the stator by the rotor being moved axially along the rotational axis.

17. The vehicle seat of vehicle cab according to claim 4 , wherein the rotor rotates relative to the stator, and the rotor rotates about the rotational axis that passes through the pivot point of the scissors type frame.

Assignees

• Grammer Ag

Inventors

• Haller Erwin

Classifications

• B60G2202/24

  Fluid damper · CPC title

• B60G2500/11

  Damping valves · CPC title

• B62D33/0604

  Cabs insulated against vibrations or noise, e.g. with elastic suspension (resilient connections between superstructure sub-units B62D27/04; damping noise in general G10K11/00; for vehicles in general B60R13/08) · CPC title

• B60G2202/42

  Electric actuator · CPC title

• B60N2/508

  Scissors-like structure · CPC title