Moving body
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji HASEGAWA
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Abstract
A moving body includes: a vehicle which includes a front wheel and rear wheels and which a passenger gets on; an unmanned carrier vehicle which is arranged at the back side of the vehicle, and includes a wheel and a driving unit which drives the wheel; and a coupler which couples the vehicle and the unmanned carrier vehicle. The coupler includes a biasing mechanism which biases a rear part of the vehicle toward an upper side of the vehicle, the biasing mechanism includes a first elastic member; when the passenger is on the vehicle, the first elastic member is deformed by the weight of the passenger to place the rear wheels in contact with a road surface, and when the passenger is not on the vehicle, the rear wheels are separated from the road surface by the elastic force of the first elastic member.
Claims6
A moving body comprising:
- a vehicle that includes a front wheel and rear wheels;
- an unmanned carrier vehicle that includes a wheel and a driving unit, wherein the driving unit drives the wheel;
- and
- a coupler that couples a rear part of the vehicle and a front part of the unmanned carrier vehicle,
- wherein the coupler includes a biasing mechanism that biases the rear part of the vehicle toward an upper side of the vehicle,
- the biasing mechanism includes a first elastic member,
- when a passenger is on the vehicle, the first elastic member is deformed by the weight of the passenger to place the rear wheels in contact with a road surface, and
- when the passenger is not on the vehicle, the first elastic member separates the rear wheels from the road surface by the elastic force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.