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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2014
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Yoshino, Saitama, JP;
Wataru Yada, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An omni-wheel of a highly compact and light-weight is provided. The omni-wheel includes a disk-shaped hub member (), a plurality of support arms () extending axially from the peripheral part of the hub member and arranged along a circle concentric to a rotational center line of the hub member at a regular interval, and a free roller () rotatably supported by a free end of each support arm around a rotational center line extending tangentially to a circle concentric to the rotational center line of the hub member and passing through a center of the free roller. The present invention also provides a wheel device incorporated with such a wheel and an inverted pendulum type vehicle using such a wheel device as a tail wheel unit.