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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ; B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
180-946 ; 305 25 ;
Abstract
A crawler driven vehicle is utilized in a dangerous environment and remotely controlled and operated. The crawler vehicle comprises a vehicle body, four arcuate front and rear crawler assemblies respectively attached to the bilateral sides of the vehicle body, each crawler assembly comprises a crawler formed by an endless belt and stretched over the periphery of the crawler assembly so as to exhibit arcuate surface contacting the running floor, a drive mechanism for driving the crawler assembly through a power transmission mechanism, and a steering mechanism for steering the front crawler assemblies.