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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10457342 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019

Filed:

May. 09, 2017

Traveling apparatus

Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Takeshi Kama, Nagakute, JP;

Makoto Kakuchi, Toyota, JP;

Makoto Mori, Nagakute, JP;

Assignee:

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;

Attorney:

Oliff PLC

Primary Examiner:

David P Merlino

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 51/02 (2006.01); B62D 21/14 (2006.01); B62D 51/04 (2006.01); B62H 1/02 (2006.01); B62K 3/00 (2006.01); B62K 5/027 (2013.01); B60L 3/08 (2006.01); B60L 15/20 (2006.01); B62K 5/00 (2013.01); B62K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 51/02 (2013.01); B62D 21/14 (2013.01); B62D 51/04 (2013.01); B62H 1/02 (2013.01); B62K 3/002 (2013.01); B62K 5/027 (2013.01); B60L 3/08 (2013.01); B60L 15/20 (2013.01); B60L 2200/24 (2013.01); B60L 2240/12 (2013.01); B60L 2250/24 (2013.01); B60L 2260/26 (2013.01); B62K 5/00 (2013.01); B62K 15/006 (2013.01); B62K 2204/00 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7258 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a traveling apparatus including at least, with respect to a traveling direction, a front wheel and a rear wheel and on which a user rides when travelling. The traveling apparatus includes a front wheel supporting member configured to rotatably support the front wheel, a rear wheel supporting member configured to rotatably support the rear wheel, an adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a wheel base length between the front wheel and the rear wheel by changing a relative position of the front wheel supporting member and the rear wheel supporting member, and a driving unit configured to drive at least one of the front wheel and rear wheel. The wheel base length adjusted by the adjusting mechanism is associated with a speed of the traveling apparatus achieved by driving the driving unit in such a way that the longer the wheel base length, the greater the speed becomes.

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