Audi engineers set up new suspension system

摘要

Audi engineers have developed a suspension system to give greater dynamic control over toe and camber angles. The technology, presented at this year's Aachen Colloquium, introduces a new actuator to the main suspension system which can adjust toe and camber angles at the wheel carrier. In current suspension designs the wheel carrier is a single unit, but Audi's engineers have split the component in two and fixed adjusting cylinders with an angled axis. The cylinders use rotating joints which are co-axial to the cylinder, and in order to transfer braking and drive torque the wheel carrier components also use a cardan joint.