Vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomokazu Sakamoto, Kazumasa Ozaki
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a vehicle body tilt sensor, a drive unit, and a seat. The vehicle body tilt sensor is provided at the vehicle body frame and detects a tilt angle of the vehicle body frame. The drive unit is coupled to the vehicle body frame and moves the vehicle body frame by inverted pendulum control based on the tilt angle detected by the vehicle body tilt sensor. The seat includes a seat body and a leg part. The seat is capable of being raised and lowered between a low position at which the leg part is in contact with a floor surface and a high position at which the leg part separates from the floor surface, and the seat is elastically coupled to the vehicle body frame. A seat tilt sensor which detects a tilt angle of the seat is provided at the seat.
Claims12
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body frame;
- a vehicle body tilt sensor which is provided at the vehicle body frame and detects a tilt angle of the vehicle body frame;
- a drive unit which is coupled to the vehicle body frame and moves the vehicle body frame along a floor surface by inverted pendulum control based on the tilt angle detected by the vehicle body tilt sensor;
- and
- a seat comprising a seat body on which a user sits and a leg part extending downward, the seat being capable of being raised and lowered between a low position at which the leg part is in contact with the floor surface and a high position at which the leg part separates from the floor surface, and the seat being elastically coupled to the vehicle body frame,
- wherein a seat tilt sensor which detects a tilt angle of the seat is provided at the seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.