Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High travel suspension for small ground mobile robots
- Patent Title (中): 用于小型地面移动机器人的高速行驶悬架
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Application No.: US13828484Application Date: 2013-03-14
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Publication No.: US08875816B2Publication Date: 2014-11-04
- Inventor: Erik E. Steltz , Jeffrey L. Weeks , Lee Sword , Annan Michael Mozeika
- Applicant: iRobot Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Bedford
- Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Bedford
- Agency: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, PA
- Main IPC: B62D55/104
- IPC: B62D55/104 ; B25J5/00

Abstract:
A lightweight mobile robot includes a chassis less than 500 pounds and two independent tracked drives including a drive wheel assembly, four or more independently suspended bogie assemblies, an idler wheel assembly, a compliant front shoe fixedly coupled to an independently suspended bogie assembly positioned adjacent the idler wheel assembly, and a compliant elastomer track entraining the drive wheel, road wheels, idler wheel assembly and compliant front shoe. The bogie assembly includes a serpentine suspension arm having a corresponding road wheel rotatably mounted at a distal end thereof, the bogie arm swingable through a range entirely beneath the chassis. The serpentine suspension arm provides clearance for adjacent road wheels to swing past one another without making contact with any portion of the adjacent bogie assembly. The compliant elastomer track has center guides and peripheral drive features protruding therefrom for engaging the drive wheel, road wheels, and idler wheel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140138168A1 High Travel Suspension for Small Ground Mobile Robots Public/Granted day:2014-05-22
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