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Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Lit Motors Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Daniel Kee Young Kim, Vancouver, WA (US);

Assignee:

Lit Motors Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63G 25/00 (2006.01); G01C 19/06 (2006.01); F16F 15/315 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 19/06 (2013.01); F16F 15/315 (2013.01); Y10T 74/1296 (2015.01);
Abstract

In embodiments of the invention, a vehicle stabilization control unit may determine a control moment value for one or more gyroscopes coupled to a vehicle frame to exert for stabilization of the vehicle frame. A number of input axes for the flywheels of the one or more gyroscopes to precess may be increased in order to generate the determined control moment value. In some embodiments, the one or more gyroscopes are further coupled to a turntable, and increasing the number of input axes for the flywheels comprises rotating the turntable. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the one or more gyroscopes comprise at least two gyroscopes coupled inline to the vehicle frame (e.g., aligned lengthwise with respect to the front and rear wheel to spin and precess in opposite directions with respect to each other).


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