Electric mobility vehicle system in a facility
AssigneeWHILL, Inc.
InventorsYusuke Takei, Seiya Shimizu, Keisuke Kawahara
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Abstract
An electric mobility vehicle in a facility includes a mobility body having a wheel, a driving unit driving the wheel, and a seat for the user, and sensors, and the mobility body has a controller which controls the driving unit for at least one of automatic driving and automatic stopping by using detected data of the sensor, the controller is configured to be able to set a detection cancel area, which is an area where a part of the user can exist in front of the user, the electric mobility vehicle further includes a lower side sensor which detects an object to be avoided from under a footrest surface or from a front end portion of a footrest portion.
Claims14
An electric mobility vehicle on which a user is to be seated to ride, the electric mobility vehicle comprising:
- a mobility body having a wheel, a driving unit for driving the wheel, and a seat on which the user is to be seated;
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- a sensor provided in the mobility body, wherein
- the mobility body comprises a controller which controls the driving unit by using detected data of the sensor for at least one of automatic driving and automatic stopping,
- the controller is configured to be able to set a detection cancel area, in the detected data, the detection cancel area is an area where a part of a body of the user, a part of clothes of the user, or a part of belongings of the user can exist, the detection cancel are is set in an area located in front of the user who is seated on the seat,
- the electric mobility vehicle further includes a lower side sensor which detects an object to be avoided in a lower side area regarding the detection cancel area from under a footrest surface of the user or from a front end portion of a footrest portion, and
- the controller controls the driving unit for an evading operation when the lower side sensor detects the object to be avoided in the lower side area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.