Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Attitude control device
- Patent Title (中): 态度控制装置
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Application No.: US12517905Application Date: 2007-12-06
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Publication No.: US08973450B2Publication Date: 2015-03-10
- Inventor: Yoshihiro Suda , Manabu Kotani
- Applicant: Yoshihiro Suda , Manabu Kotani
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Yoshihiro Suda
- Current Assignee: Yoshihiro Suda
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Ladas & Parry, LLP
- Priority: JP2006-333914 20061212
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/073569 WO 20071206
- International Announcement: WO2008/072542 WO 20080619
- Main IPC: G01C19/24
- IPC: G01C19/24 ; B62D37/00 ; B61C17/06 ; B61F5/22 ; B62D37/06 ; G01C19/02 ; G01C19/06

Abstract:
The present invention controls rolling motion of a vehicle by eliminating the detrimental influence of gyro moment on the motion of the vehicle and actively using gyro moment generated by a flywheel constituting an energy storing device. The invention relates to an attitude control device for a vehicle mounted with a flywheel as an energy storage device, the flywheel being pivotally supported about first and second axes mutually orthogonal with each other, the flywheel being mounted on a body of the vehicle such that the first axis extends in a front-rear direction of the body, the attitude control device comprising locking means for locking movement of the flywheel about the first axis, wherein a rolling motion of the vehicle is controlled by locking the movement of the flywheel about the first axis using said locking means.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110016996A1 ATTITUDE CONTROL DEVICE Public/Granted day:2011-01-27
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