VEHICULAR TRAVELING DEVICE

• Main Author: OBATA KIYOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.07.2009
• Subjects: CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; CYCLES; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR; RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORCYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To drive rear wheels on right and left sides simultaneously at the time of straight-ahead travelling, and release an external rear wheel at the time of turning so as to make the external rear wheel self-rotated, in order to solve the problems of difficulty in turning with a driving wheel inside the turning and of difficulty in pedaling with a loss of power due to drag of a free wheel even when straight-ahead driving, because a conventional three-wheeled cycle can travels by driving either one of the rear wheels which are each independently attached to the three-wheeled cycle. SOLUTION: It is preferable to drive rear wheels on right and left sides simultaneously at the time of straight-ahead travelling, and to automatically adjust a rotation difference between the external and internal wheels when turning leftward and rightward. To achieve this, a vehicular traveling device is constituted such that both wheels are connected to both ends of a driving shaft via a one-way clutch to allow either one of the wheels to be released when the wheel exceeds the driving shaft in rotation so as to make the wheel self-rotated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT