US 7,731,204 B2Granted

Combination scooter/backpack

OwnerMichael Hughesdon Turner, Ryan Patrick Murphy +2inventors

InventorsMichael Hughesdon Turner, Ryan Patrick Murphy, Duston E A Stutzman, Kah-Thart Goo

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Abstract

The combination scooter/backpack is an article carrying device with the capacity to be converted into a wheeled land vehicle, and therefore has two modes of usage. The article carrying device resembles a conventional backpack with two straps positioned to be placed over the user's shoulders, entitled backpack mode. The wheeled land vehicle functions as a popular collapsible scooter, two wheels mounted upon a board member with propulsion means provided by user's contact with the ground, entitled scooter mode. A horizontal handlebar is positioned at the top of the combination and serves to steer the front wheel during scooter mode. Conversion between backpack mode and scooter mode is accomplished with the raising and lowering of said handlebar and the manipulation of releasable fasteners and latches. In both backpack and scooter modes, a cover circumferentially surrounds the combination scooter/backpack to secure and protect components that are not in use.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A wheeled vehicle, comprising:

a rigid frame configured to support a handle assembly;
a supporting unit including a first wheel, the supporting unit pivotable between a first position and a second position, wherein in the first position the supporting unit is arranged close to the frame, and in the second position, the supporting unit is extending away from the frame;
said handle assembly including a first column member, the first column member slidably attached to the frame and configured to be moved upwards and downwards away and towards the frame;
a mechanism attached to the frame, the supporting unit and the first column member, the mechanism configured to rotate the supporting unit about a pivot axis from the second position to the first position, when the first column member is moved downwards in a direction towards the frame;
a second column member, the first column member arranged in a longitudinal slidable relationship with the second column member, and a second wheel arranged at a bottom end of the second column member,
wherein the first column member is configured to turn the second column member and the second wheel about the longitudinal axis.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/230,030Filed 21 Aug 2008 · continuation
Priority: 27 Jan 2005
Published: US 2009/0066045 A112 Mar 2009
Granted: 8 Jun 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A45F 4/02
Travelling or camp articles which may be converted into other articles or into objects for other use; Sacks or packs carried on the body and…:…
A45F 3/04
Travelling or camp articles ; Sacks or packs carried on the body: sacks or packs carried on the body by means of two straps passing over the two…
B62K 3/002
Bicycles: without a seat, i.e. the rider operating the vehicle in a standing position, e.g. non-motorized scooters; non-motorized scooters with…
B62K 15/006
Collapsible or foldable cycles: the frame being foldable

Family

Application60/647,346Us provisional application · filed 27 Jan 2005
Application11/340,504Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Jan 2006
US 2009/0066045 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Mar 2009
US 7,431,311 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2006/0273534 A1Published application
US 7,731,204 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.