Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle with articulated wheel
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Application No.: US16560095Application Date: 2019-09-04
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Publication No.: US11571926B2Publication Date: 2023-02-07
- Inventor: Timothy A. Abke , Skylar Sible , Megan Imwalle
- Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP
- Main IPC: B60B19/04
- IPC: B60B19/04 ; B60B19/12 ; B62D53/02

Abstract:
A vehicle includes a frame including a front frame part and a rear frame part. An elongated single wheel is rotatably connected to one of the front frame part and the rear frame part. The elongated wheel houses an expansion device including a linkage mechanism adapted to reconfigure a shape of the elongated wheel between a cylindrical shape in top view of the vehicle when the vehicle is traveling in a straight direction and a frustoconical shape in top view of the vehicle in a turning condition of the vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200156407A1 VEHICLE WITH ARTICULATED WHEEL Public/Granted day:2020-05-21
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