Motor vehicles – Special driving device – Stepper
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-01
2005-03-01
Boehler, Anne Marie (Department: 3611)
Motor vehicles
Special driving device
Stepper
C180S218000, C301S045000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06860346
ABSTRACT:
A powered wheel assembly, and method and ground-engaging vehicle (e.g., a robotic vehicle) using the same, are provided. The vehicle incorporates at least one of the wheel assemblies on its chassis body. In addition to its ability to propel the vehicle across a surface, the wheel assembly is reconfigurable between a retracted configuration, wherein the wheel assembly has a first rolling diameter, and an expanded configuration, wherein the wheel assembly has a second rolling diameter greater than the first rolling diameter. A drive motor assembly may both rotate the wheel assembly, e.g., propel the vehicle across a surface, and selectively actuate the wheel assembly from the first rolling diameter to the second rolling diameter, or to any intermediate rolling diameter.
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Burt Ian T.
Papanikolopoulos Nikolaos P.
Boehler Anne Marie
Mueting Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A.
Regents of the University of Minnesota
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