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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2016
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Kenichi Shirato, Kyoto, JP;
Shigeru Tsuji, Kyoto, JP;
Masayuki Kubo, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshitaka Hane, Kyoto, JP;
MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A support unit is connected to a shaft of a main wheel and thus is always maintained in parallel to or at a predetermined angle to a road surface, independently of an inclination angle of a main body. Accordingly, an incline estimating unit regards an inclination anglebeing a value in an inclination sensor as being equal to an inclination angleof the road surface (or in a case where the support unit is inclined a predetermined angle to the road surface, an angle from θto the predetermined angle is subtracted from or added to the crossing angle) and outputs the estimated inclination angleof the road surface to a target inclination angle determining unit.