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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
May. 03, 2013
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Muto, Saitama, JP;
Makoto Mitsukawa, Saitama, JP;
Motoharu Yokoi, Saitama, JP;
Yasuka Mori, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inverted pendulum type vehicle is configured to permit a user to easily get on to the vehicle in a forward-facing posture from the rear of a vehicle body. The vehicle includes a seat for supporting a user thereon, as well as a main wheel driven by an inverted pendulum control, a vehicle body frame which rotatably supports the main wheel, and a tail wheel attached to a tail wheel arm, supported for pivotal motion on the vehicle body frame. The seat is attached to the vehicle body frame at an uppermost portion thereof. The vehicle body frame pivots rearwardly around an axle of the driving wheel together with the seat upon cancellation of the inverted pendulum control and the range of pivotal motion thereof is limited by contact thereof with the arm.