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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2011
Robert B. Hill, Portland, OR (US);
Fred Lux, Aloha, OR (US);
Timothy Michael Miller, Portland, OR (US);
Edmund Jerome Stilwell, Oregon City, OR (US);
Robert B. Hill, Portland, OR (US);
Fred Lux, Aloha, OR (US);
Timothy Michael Miller, Portland, OR (US);
Edmund Jerome Stilwell, Oregon City, OR (US);
Green Lite Motors Corporation, Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
A three-wheeled leaning passenger vehicle comprises a frame rigidly mounting a passenger seat; a rear wheel rotatably mounted on the frame in a rearward region thereof; a frame-mounted rotary drive cooperatively coupled with the rear wheel for rotation of the rear wheel relative to the frame; and a frame-mounted coast/steer system including two front wheels freely rotatable relative to the frame in a forward region thereof, and a handlebar coupled with the two front wheels for turning the two front wheels in a plane defined by their rotational axes substantially parallel with one another to corner, the vehicle being configured to substantially freely lean left and right in a natural response to a driver thereof in the driver seat steering the vehicle and leaning respectively left and right, and, alternatively or additionally, to have controlled leaning in response to a hydraulically or otherwise provisioned front-wheel suspension subsystem.