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US 11,691,302 B2Granted
Two wheeled robot with enhanced climbing features
AssigneeReconRobotics, Inc.
InventorsCasey R. Carlson, Andrew Drenner, Alex J. Kossett, Ian T. Burt
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Abstract
A robot has an electronic surveillance system embedded within a chassis disposed between two wheels. The wheels include a main body and a plurality of treads. The treads are generally disposed radially around the main body and extend distally from outer portion of the main body. The main body generally defines a plurality of compression cells and may present a substantially frustoconical outer surface.
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A two wheeled surveillance robot comprising:
- a pair of ground or floor engaging drive wheels, each of the pair of wheels comprising a wheel, each wheel having a maximum radius and an axis;
- a body extending between the wheels, the body having a radius that is less than the maximum radius of the wheels and containing a forwardly directed video camera, the surveillance robot movable in a forward direction and a rearward direction;
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- a stabilizing tail extending from a rearward side of the body for engaging the ground or floor;
- wherein each of the wheels has a main portion with an axial inner side adjacent the body, an axial outer side opposite the axial inner side, a periphery extending around the wheel and extending between the axial inner side and the axial outer side, and a main portion width measured between the axial inner side and axial outer side, wherein each of the wheels further comprising a plurality of vanes extending radially outward from the main portion and circumferentially spaced thereabout;
- each of the vanes attached to the main portion at a juncture extending across the entire wheel width of the main portion of the wheel, each vane having a radial outer vane edge with a radial vane height measured between the main portion and the radial outer vane edge, wherein said vane height is at a minimum at the axial outer side, and that said height continually increases to an apex positioned intermediate the axial inner side and the axial outer side, the vane height then decreasing as the vane approaches the axial inner side.
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A two wheeled surveillance robot comprising:
- a pair of ground or floor engaging drive wheels, each of the pair of wheels having a maximum radius and an axis, a plurality of vanes arranged circumferentially on each wheel, each vane having an outermost apex;
- a body extending between the wheels, the body having a radius that is less than the maximum radius of the wheels and containing a video camera facing forwardly, and
- a stabilizing tail extending rearwardly from the body for engaging the ground or floor, wherein the tail has a shape that when viewed from above that diverges outwardly as the tail extends rearwardly.
A two wheeled surveillance robot comprising:
- a pair of ground or floor engaging drive wheels, each of the pair of wheels comprising a wheel, each wheel having a maximum radius and an axis, a plurality of vanes arranged circumferentially around each wheel;
- a body extending between the wheels, the body having a radius that is less than the maximum radius of the wheels and containing a video camera, the wheels rotatable in a forward direction and a rearward direction whereby the surveillance robot is movable in a forward direction and a rearward direction;
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- a stabilizing tail extending rearwardly from the body for engaging the ground or floor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.