Motor vehicles – Power – Electric
Patent
1998-04-14
2000-10-10
Camby, Richard M.
Motor vehicles
Power
Electric
180907, 1802501, B60K 100
Patent
active
06129165&
ABSTRACT:
A curb-climbing front wheel drive power wheelchair has a frame, a seat connected to the frame, a pair of drive wheels connected to the frame and rotatable about a transverse axis below a portion of the seat supporting the wheelchair occupant's thighs. The power wheelchair also has at least one ground-engaging idler wheel connected to the frame behind the drive wheels and anti-tip wheels forward of the drive wheels, rigidly connected to the motors for pivotal movement.
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