An air-suspension device for vehicles, e.g., commercial vehicles, includes
a valve block that is assigned to a rear axle and contains a central
valve for aerating and venting air-spring bellows of the rear axle, and a
valve block assigned to a front axle for aerating and venting air-spring
bellows of the front axle. The central valve of the valve block assigned
to the rear axle selectively connects: a) a compressed-air supply to the
air-spring bellows of the rear axle and to a supply-pressure connection
of the valve block assigned to the front axle; or b) the supply-pressure
connection of the valve block assigned to the front axle and the
air-spring bellows of the rear axle to an air vent. The valve block
assigned to the front axle has a pneumatic pilot-operation connection for
pneumatic-electric pilot operation. The pneumatic pilot-operation
connection of the valve block assigned to the front axle is connected to
a pressure outlet of a selector-valve device, of which one pressure inlet
is connectable, via the central valve of the valve block assigned to the
rear axle, either to the compressed-air supply or to the air vent, and
the other pressure inlet is connectable to at least one of the air-spring
bellows of the front axle. The selector-valve device switches through, in
each instance, the higher of the pressures applied to its pressure inlets
to the pressure outlet. By this arrangement, the need for pneumatic lines
is eliminated.