VEHICLE BODY STABILIZATION SYSTEM Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: automotive industry; vehicles. SUBSTANCE: vehicle body stabilization system has frame, engine and transmission with driving and driven shafts. It has also two coaxial flywheels, each mounted on vertical shaft, drive coupled with shafts and providing their rotation in opposite direction, and locking device. Novelty in body stabilization system is than flywheel shafts are made hollows and are arranged one inside the other, engine is installed in body, driving shaft is arranged inside flywheel shafts and is made as body base and its support on running gear, driven shaft is secured vertically and rigidly with one degree of freedom in running gear frame and is made as base to support driving shaft. Driving and driven shafts are coupled by joint with two degrees of freedom made on form of constant velocity universal joint. Body is coupled with running gear frame by means of two pin drums placed concentrically one inside the other, one being secured on body, and the other, on running gear. Locking device is made in form of two hydraulic cylinders placed inside constant velocity universal joint between body and running gear and coupled with body and running gear by means of joint with two degrees of freedom. EFFECT: enhanced stability when negotiating upgrades, riding comfort and engine operating conditions. 4 dwg