Patents Assigned to Pfister GmbH and Bayrische Motoren Werke AG
  • Method and apparatus for optimizing the driving characteristics of a vehicle
    Patent number: 4913457
    Abstract: For optimizing the driving characteristics of a vehicle, especially a motor vehicle, there is proposed a method and an apparatus, wherein the monetary wheel-load is preferably continuously determined and the level of the car body and/or the damping-characteristics of a shock-absorber are regulated in dependence of these signals of momentary wheel load, which is continuously determined by a single force-measuring-cell integrated in each of the shock-absorbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Pfister GmbH and Bayrische Motoren Werke AG
    Inventors: Hans W. Hafner, Reinhard Drews