Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Norihiko Kawada

Mitsugu Kikuchi

Kanako Suzuki

A load-relieving apparatus includes a wire cablewith a free end and a fixed end opposite to the free end, a locking partbeing attached to the free end, a winding partconfigured to wind the wire cablefrom a fixed-end side thereof, a pulleyinterposed between the winding partand the locking part, and configured to stretch the wire cable therebetween, and a coverwith a through holeH formed therein through which the wire cableis inserted, the coverbeing interposed between the locking partand the pulley, and formed so as to cover at least a part of the pulley. Further, the through holeH is configured so that a relative position of the through holeH with respect to a rotation axis of the pulleychanges.

Load-relieving apparatus

To provide a vehicle capable of performing a transition between a stable state and an inverted state with a simple structure. A vehicle in accordance with an aspect of the present invention is a vehicle that moves by inverted pendulum control, including a rider seat, a chassis, a right driving wheel, a left driving wheel, motors to rotationally drive the right driving wheel and the left driving wheel, a forward bar protruding forward beyond the chassis, a motor to rotational drive the forward bar, a footstep attached to the forward bar, and a control box to control the motor. The feet of a riderare put on the footstep. The control box changes the vehicle to an inverted state by raising the footstep so that the footstep moves away from a ground, or changes the vehicle to a stable state by lowering the footstep so that the footstep comes into contact with the ground.

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Norihiko Kawada