Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Giken Hogyo Kabishiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Jun Hosaka

Takao Kobayashi

Hiroshi Moriyama

Yasumi Fukuzumi

Shuhei Maruyama

Katsuhisa Ichikawa

Tatsuya Tokuda

Kazuhiro Minato

An electric wheelchair has two front wheels and two rear wheels and is thus four-wheeled. The wheelchair has a tread between the rear wheels, which is smaller than a tread between the front wheels. It also has a floor disposed between the front wheels and rear wheels and having side ends positioned externally of outer surfaces of the rear wheels. Thus, a crew can drive the wheelchair using the front body width of the wheelchair as a reference while paying little attention backward. A motor and a reduction gear as components of a rear wheel driving mechanism are laid compactly on a rear wheel axle one over the other. This reduces the body length and enables down-sizing of the wheelchair.

Electric wheelchair

A riding-type powered lawn mower has a frame, front and rear wheels rotatably mounted on the frame, an engine mounted on the frame for rotating the rear wheels, a cutter deck mounted on the frame and housing a cutter blade drivable by the engine, a driver's seat mounted on the frame by a seat bracket in front of the engine, and a steering column mounted on the frame forwardly of the driver's seat. The riding-type powered lawn mower also has a body paneling mounted on the frame. The body paneling comprises a unitary front body cover covering the steering column, the seat bracket, and a front portion of the engine, and a unitary rear hood detachably connected to a rear end of the front body cover and covering a rear portion of the engine.

Motor vehicle body paneling

Growing community of inventors

Wako, Japan

Jun Hosaka