Abstract: An economical to manufacture and simple to install and remove gas charged fluid pressure accumulator including a cup-shaped accumulator body with an integral dome at one end and an integral in-turned annular lip at the other end, a piston slidably disposed in the accumulator body, and an external screw thread on the accumulator body. The accumulator body is screwed into a threaded counterbore until the annular lip bears against a bottom wall of the counterbore with a fluid port of the manifold inside of the projection of the lip on the bottom wall. A seal ring in a groove in the bottom wall of the counterbore bears against the annular lip to seal the chamber of the accumulator defined between the bottom wall and the piston.

Abstract: The driver steering inputs of a closed-loop reference model rear vehicle steering system are measured and subjected to a filter function that delays application of the measured input to the reference model. Externally generated steering inputs appearing in the parameters measured for closed-loop control are subjected to a different filter function which imparts only minimal delay of the signal transmission. As a result, the rear steer control responds at a first, relatively slow rate to driver steering inputs, and a second, relatively fast rate to externally generated disturbances.