Foldable personal vehicle
AssigneeDoona Holdings Ltd.
InventorsYoav Shabtai Mazar, Maxim Holtzman
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Abstract
A foldable personal such as a tricycle which can be convertible into a stroller, is configured for accommodating a child therein and for preventing, when desired, the child from being able to steer the vehicle, vehicle having an operational state and a storage state, in which it can take an extremely compact form. The vehicle has a longitudinal axis lying in its vertical plane of symmetry and having a horizontal reference plane perpendicular to the plane of symmetry, and it takes its compact form in the storage state both in the direction along its longitudinal axis and in the directions perpendicular to this axis both along the plane of symmetry and perpendicular to the plane of symmetry.
Claims11
A foldable personal vehicle having an operational state and a storage state and having a longitudinal axis lying in a vertical plane of symmetry of the foldable vehicle, the foldable vehicle comprising:
- a body member having an upper surface holding a seat and right and left side surfaces spaced from each other in a direction perpendicular to the plane of symmetry;
- a front bar having a front bar axis and holding a front wheel of the vehicle, the front bar being pivotally articulated at least indirectly to the body member via a pivot axis of the front bar spaced from the front bar axis;
- two rear legs each of which holdings a rear wheel of the vehicle and is pivotally articulated to the body member via a pivot axis of the rear leg to enable the legs to take operational and storage orientations;
- a rotatable rear steering port configured to fixedly receive therein a rear steering handle for using said handle when the vehicle is in the operational state;
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- a steering mechanism connecting said port with the front bar so that rotation of the port by the handle causes at least a lower portion of the front bar to rotate for steering the vehicle when in the operational state, the steering mechanism comprising at least one steering element extending at least partially within the body member and configured to be bent in the vicinity of the pivot axis of the front bar, when the front bar is pivoted from the operational orientation to the storage orientation;
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- wherein the front bar has an upper portion associated with handlebars and a lower portion associated with the front wheel, the upper and lower portions being configured to be locked to each other to behave as a single integral unit steerable by operating the handlebars and unlocked from each other allowing the lower portion to be steered by a separate steering independently of the upper portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.