Motor vehicles – Special wheel base
Patent
1993-03-08
1994-11-22
Focarino, Margaret A.
Motor vehicles
Special wheel base
180 10, 280206, B62D 6302
Patent
active
053660340
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle has a passenger compartment suspended between two wheels mounted at the ends of a single axle that is perpendicular to the direction of travel. The passenger compartment is mounted beneath the axle so as to allow the passenger compartment to repeatedly rotate in an unconstrained manner about the axle upon impact of the vehicle with another object so as to convert linear momentum of the vehicle into self-extinguishing angular momentum in order to dissipate energy and reduce injury to passengers in the passenger compartment.
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Focarino Margaret A.
Mattix Carla
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