Wheel assembly, a method of controlling the motion of an object and a golf club storage and transport device
OwnerClark Anthony Cameroninventor
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Abstract
The wheel assembly includes an arm 51, a wheel 55, a power supply port 60, an electric motor 56 coupled to the wheel 55, and a motor controller 62 for controlling rotation of the electric motor 56. The method of controlling the motion of a motorized object includes defining a target position, sensing a current position of the motorized object and using an output from a processor to control the electric motors to drive the object toward the target position. The golf club storage and transport device 70 includes a body 71 for storing golf clubs and a pair of releasable wheels 75. The device 70 has an assembled configuration and a disassembled configuration.
Claims8
A golf club storage and transport device including:
- a body sized to receive a plurality of golf clubs, the body having at least one storage compartment disposed on a bottom half thereof;
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- at least a pair of modular wheel assemblies, each being releasably attachable to the body and each of the modular wheel assemblies including:
- an arm defining a proximal end configured to attach to the body and a distal end having an axle projecting therefrom;
- a wheel being rotatably mountable to the axle;
- a port releasably connected to a power supply;
- an electric motor disposed upon the arm, the electric motor being driveably coupleable to the wheel;
- and a motor controller disposed upon the arm, the motor controller being configured to cooperate with a like motor controller of a like modular wheel assembly to control rotation of the electric motor and to cause a rotational speed differential between the wheel and a wheel of the like modular wheel assembly to control the motion of the body to which the modular wheel assemblies are releasably attachable;
- the modular wheel assemblies being configured to render the body mobile, without requiring the body to house any components associated with propulsion, power or control;
- the device having an assembled configuration in which the modular wheel assemblies are attached externally to the body to support the body and a disassembled configuration in which the modular wheel assemblies are detached and are storable upon a top half of the body or in the at least one storage compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.