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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2020
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 3/04 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1679 (2013.01); B25J 3/04 (2013.01); B25J 5/007 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include omnidirectional wheels and each further include a right lifting arm and a left lifting arm that are freely rotatably movable between storage positions (right storage position and left storage position) where tips thereof are pointed toward a center of a body in a width direction and expanded positions (right expanded position and left expanded position) where the tips thereof are pointed toward the outside of the body in the width direction.