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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Kato, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an inverted pendulum vehicle () including a vehicle body frame () fitted with a saddle () at an upper end thereof; a main wheel () combining a plurality of free rollers () arranged along a circle such that rotational center lines of the free rollers are each directed along a tangential line of the circle, a pair of drive disks () each carrying a plurality of free rollers () arranged along a circumferential direction and configured to engage the free rollers of the main wheel, and a pair of drive units () including a pair of electric motors () for individually driving the drive disks under an inverted pendulum control, the two drive units are positioned one behind the other between the saddle and a rotational center line of the main wheel.