Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electric vehicle
- Patent Title (中): 电动车
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Application No.: US13702788Application Date: 2011-06-09
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Publication No.: US08701801B2Publication Date: 2014-04-22
- Inventor: Chinami Itou , Yoshinori Itakura , Minoru Suzuki , Hiromichi Bando
- Applicant: Chinami Itou , Yoshinori Itakura , Minoru Suzuki , Hiromichi Bando
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: NTN Corporation
- Current Assignee: NTN Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-132016 20100609; JP2011-124043 20110602
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/063236 WO 20110609
- International Announcement: WO2011/155558 WO 20111215
- Main IPC: B60K17/30
- IPC: B60K17/30

Abstract:
An electric vehicle which includes in-wheel motor driving devices and an independent-steering apparatus and is capable of making pivot turns within a minimum-required parking space, having a structure without a chassis and a part of the body protruding out of a minimum-required circular space necessary for the wheels to make pivot turning. In a case where the electric vehicle has four wheels including left and right front wheels and left and right rear wheels, an in-wheel motor driving device is incorporated only in the left and right front wheels, only in the left and right rear wheels, or in all of the wheels. An independent-steering apparatus serves for all of the wheels. A kingpin axis in each of the wheels makes an intersection with a road surface on a circle inboard of a vehicle chassis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130098695A1 ELECTRIC VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2013-04-25
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