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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2019
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Timothy A. Abke, Dublin, OH (US);
Skylar Sible, Dublin, OH (US);
Megan Imwalle, Fort Loramie, OH (US);
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60B 19/04 (2006.01); B60B 19/12 (2006.01); B62D 53/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60B 19/04 (2013.01); B60B 19/12 (2013.01); B62D 53/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle includes a frame including a front frame part and a rear frame part. An elongated single wheel is rotatably connected to one of the front frame part and the rear frame part. The elongated wheel houses an expansion device including a linkage mechanism adapted to reconfigure a shape of the elongated wheel between a cylindrical shape in top view of the vehicle when the vehicle is traveling in a straight direction and a frustoconical shape in top view of the vehicle in a turning condition of the vehicle.