Vehicle with a stability system that compensates for the centrifugal force and the transverse component of the inertia force when cornering
OwnerAlexey Inkirevinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a minimum size, maneuverable, comfortable, safe, and inexpensive compact vehicle, having a higher level of cornering/turning stability than the current state of the art. The inventive design may be applied to two-, three-, and four- (or more) wheeled vehicles. The invention may be utilized in the design of the main components of vehicles providing an increased stability during turning, even at high speeds, based on fixed and moveable chassis portions which swing in relation to one another and novel linking mechanisms connected with large and/or wide wheel portions.
Claims21
A high stability vehicle, comprising:
- three interlinked portions comprising a front wheel portion, a chassis portion, and a rear wheel portion, said chassis portion being positioned between said front wheel portion and said rear wheel portion,
- said chassis portion comprising a fixed part, a movable part, and one or more pivoting arms, said one or more pivoting arms connecting said movable part to said fixed part,
- said one or more pivoting arms being rotatably connected at their first end to said fixed part and at their opposite end to said movable part such that said movable part swings about an arc having a radius when the high stability vehicle makes a turn, said swinging causing said movable part to shift horizontally relative to said fixed part towards the turn.
A high stability vehicle, comprising:
- three interlinked portions comprising a front wheel portion, a chassis portion, and a rear wheel portion, said chassis portion being positioned between said front wheel portion and said rear wheel portion,
- a linking mechanism connecting the fixed part to the front and/or rear wheel portion, said linking mechanism comprising two pivoting arms, the two pivoting arms comprising a right-side pivoting arm and a left side pivoting arm, each of the pivoting arms being rotatably connected at one of their ends to a respective side of the fixed part, each of the two pivoting arms being further rotatably connected at each of their opposite ends to right and left ends of a T-shaped swing arm such that said T-shaped swing arm swings in a direction opposite to a turning direction of the high stability vehicle, said T-shaped swing arm having a front end connected to wheels of said front and/or rear wheel portion, said wheels being connected via an axle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.