Motor vehicles – Steering by driving – Combined with manual steering
Patent
1996-04-12
1998-05-05
Avila, Stephen
Motor vehicles
Steering by driving
Combined with manual steering
180 65, B62D 600
Patent
active
057462828
ABSTRACT:
A power-assisted cart includes a wheeled platform for supporting a load thereon; driving wheels mounted on the wheeled platform for, when driven, moving the wheeled platform; a drive unit for driving the driving wheels; an operating unit which may be in the form of a handle mounted on the wheeled platform for receiving an external force applied thereto when the cart is desired to be moved; a force detector for detecting a magnitude and direction of the external force applied to the operating unit; and a control for generating to the drive unit an output substantially proportional to the external force detected by the force detector.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3814199 (1974-06-01), Jones
patent: 3823791 (1974-07-01), Sheler
patent: 3893530 (1975-07-01), Gordon
Fujiwara Shigeki
Maeda Hiroshi
Yamashita Hideki
Avila Stephen
Matsushita Electric & Works Ltd.
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