Motor vehicles – Having at least one wheel both driven and steerable
Patent
1991-03-13
1993-02-02
Focarino, Margaret A.
Motor vehicles
Having at least one wheel both driven and steerable
180 13, 180 23, 180 655, 180907, 310 67R, B60K 1730
Patent
active
051831333
ABSTRACT:
A motorized wheel assembly is provided in which there is a seat for receiving the occupant attached to a vertical shaft with a single central wheel mounted at the bottom of the shaft for rotation about a horizontal axis transverse to the chair and defining a direction of forward movement of the wheel forwardly of the chair. On the chair and the shaft is carried a battery and control unit for supplying power to the drive motor of the wheel mounted on the hub of the wheel. An outrigger frame includes a sleeve slideable on the shaft and a plurality of arms extending outwardly from the sleeve each arm carrying a castor wheel to prevent toppling of the device. Steering is achieved by the feet of the user applied to the outrigger frame to rotate the chair and the drivewheel about a vertical axis. The motor in a hub design of the wheel is achieved by providing a cylindrical housing surrounding the motor with annular bearings on the outer peripheral surface of the housing carrying the rim of the wheel which directly surrounds the housing. An output shaft at one end of the housing drives the rim through a coupling extending around the housing.
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Copy of article entitled "Five-Wheel Unicycle System" (4 pages)-Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing Nov. 1985 pp. 593-596 vol. 23.
Fulford Raymond E.
Legal Jules O.
Roy Orest Z.
Ade Stanley G.
Battison Adrian D.
Canadian Aging & Rehabilitation Product Development Corporation
Focarino Margaret A.
Hurley Kevin
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