Abstract: In a shock absorber support arrangement including a support bearing structure, a hydraulic cylinder which includes a piston and a cylinder which is hydraulically coupled to the support bearing structure, the support bearing structure having a housing including a force transmission means having a chamber which is filled with a hydraulic medium and is in communication with the cylinder, the hydraulic cylinder being connected to the support bearing structure so as to be axially movable over a certain extent as a result of friction forces effective between the piston and the cylinder wherein the load forces of the piston are transmitted via the hydraulic fluid in the cylinder and the support bearing structure directly to the force transmission means.

Abstract: In a vibration absorber for a pneumatic vehicle wheel having a brake with a brake disk and a brake caliper extending around the brake disk, at least part of the brake caliper forms a component of an oscillating vibration attenuating mass and is supported on a lever so as to permit movement thereof relative to the vehicle wheel.

Abstract: A combined spring-and-shock-absorber system for supporting wheel suspensions or axles on a vehicle body has a tubular roll bellows (U-bellows) arranged between a wheel-bearing or wheel-controlling connection and a connection on the vehicle body side, the bellows being arranged between an outer bell and a rolling piston, the outer bell and the rolling piston, in each case, having at least partially varying diameters over the height of the corresponding component, and having walls that contact the tubular roll bellows. Both ends of the tubular roll bellows being sealingly secured on the rolling piston at segments having different diameters, the lower mounting section having a larger diameter than the upper mounting section. For this purpose, a tubular roll bellows is used, which is configured as a differential roll bellows, whose interior is filled with a fluid and communicates with a hydraulic accumulator supported on the chassis and/or vehicle body.

Abstract: An active chassis in a motor vehicle has a controllable suspension system which includes passive spring elements between a wheel of the vehicle and a body of the vehicle as well as supporting units which are provided for the spring elements and can be adjusted by a control signal. Transducers are provided for the supporting units to detect state variables of the supporting units. In addition, a control unit is provided to generate the control signal from a setpoint signal which can be preselected via an input element and an actual signal which is determined from the detected state variables. To provide an easily implemented method of controlling the roll moment distribution between front and rear axles of the vehicle, the roll moment distribution to be set between the front and rear axles of the vehicle can be preselected as the setpoint signal in the input element.