Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tire assembly which is small in the number of components, reduced in assembling man-hours, and by which a tire hardly vibrate as a whole.SOLUTION: The tire assembly 1 includes: a wheel 2; a tire 3 which is arranged at outside a radial direction of the wheel 2, and contacts with a road surface; and a suspension 4 in which a plurality of springs 40 having a pair of connection sections which are provided between the wheel 2 and the tire 3, and separately connected to the wheel 2 in a circumferential direction, and a link which contacts with the tire 3 by connecting the pair of connections to each other are aligned in a circumferential direction and in a vehicle width direction.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheel structure suitable for a small diameter solid tire which improves ride quality by favorably absorbing vibration caused in drive while relatively increasing the hardness of solid rubber.SOLUTION: A tire includes: a wheel; and the solid rubber provided around the periphery of the wheel. The wheel comprising a fiber-reinforced plastic includes: a hub having a substantially disc-like shape; a rim having a substantially cylindrical shape; and a plurality of spokes extending radially from the hub in a radial direction and connecting the hub with the rim. Each spoke positioned between the hub and the rim has an L-shaped part that extends substantially in an L-shape when viewing in the longitudinally cross-sectional direction including the central axis of the tire.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling apparatus capable of stable traveling. SOLUTION: The traveling apparatus 10 can perform desired traveling while performing inversion control. Moreover, the traveling apparatus 10 includes an elastic connection member 1 connected to a moving body 100. The connection member 1 may use an elastic member disposed in the vehicle vertical direction or vehicle front/rear direction. Further, a damper member 31 for dampening the vibration of the connection member 1 may be attached in series to or in parallel with the connection member 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized vehicle, controlling a boarding part to be substantially horizontal to bidirectional inclined surface. SOLUTION: The small-sized vehicle 1 includes: a frame part 2 to which at least two parallel link mechanisms 201, 202 are connected not to constrain mutual rotation at an intersecting part; the boarding part 3 connected to the frame body 2 to cooperatively rotate; a vehicle body attitude detecting part 4 for detecting the attitude of the frame part 2; a driving part 5 for driving the frame part 2 to rotate according to the detection result of the vehicle body attitude detecting part 4; and wheels 6 provided on the frame part 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a switch, capable of surely feeding and shutting off power and of preventing damage and fusion of a fixed contact and a moving contact and provide an electric steering force assisting device, using the switch and capable of improving vehicle maneuverability. SOLUTION: This switch 10 is provided with moving contacts 18a and 18c; moving contacts 18a and 18c mounted to rockable contact holding levers 20a and 20c, energized toward the moving contacts 18a and 18c and disposed opposite to the moving contacts 18a and 18c by being spaced at a predetermined distance; and a stroke-transmitting lever 14 for transmitting external force to the moving contacts 18a and 18c to produce electric connection, by bringing one of the moving contacts 18a and 18c into contact with one of the fixed contacts 26a and 26c or by brining the other of the moving contacts 18a and 18c into contact with the other of the fixed contacts 26a and 26c. The switch 10 is mounted on this electric steering force assisting device 11.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a cost by reducing number of balls used in a non- recirculating ball screw. SOLUTION: In a power steering device adopting a non-recirculating ball screw B, balls 26 arranged between spiral grooves 23c and 24a are rotatably held by a cage 25 arranged along an axial direction on an outer periphery of a screw shaft 23b. The ball 26 is roughly assembled on an axially center portion of the cage 25. The balls 26 are tightly assembled onto axially both ends of the cage 25. When a car runs straight, the balls 26 assembled on the axially center portion of the cage 25 are arranged between the spiral grooves 23c and 24a. When the steering is turned to right or left direction, the balls 26 on axially both ends of the cage 25 are arranged between the spiral grooves 23c and 24a.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To simplify the constitution of a work aligning device having portions different in diameter in plural directions such as globe retainer (CVJ cage) for a uniform coupling and to facilitate alignment by providing a pair of discs rotating in the opposite direction with the gap between each periphery thereof and feeding a work through the gap from an upper passage wider than the gap to a lower passage narrower than the gap. CONSTITUTION:A CVJ cage 11 in guide rails 12, 13 is rotated counter-clockwise in a passage 16 by discs 1, 10 rotating in the opposite direction, and fed through the gap between the discs 1, 10 into a lower passage 17. Since the size of rails 14, 15 is a little larger than the width of an elongated opening of the CVJ cage 11, the cage is guided and moved without rolling by the rails 14, 15. In this arrangement, the rotating speed of the disc 10 is made higher than that of the disc 1, so as to smoothly drop the work into the passage 17. Thus, the work can be easily aligned in a simple constitution.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tire assembly small in the number of components, reduced in assembling man-hours, and easy in adjusting rigidity.SOLUTION: The tire assembly 1 includes: a wheel 2; a tire 3 which is arranged outside a radial direction of the wheel 2, and contacts with a road surface; and a suspension 4 in which a plurality of springs 40 having an inner end 400 which is provided between the wheel 2 and the tire 3, and contacts with the wheel 2, an outer end 401 which contacts with the tire 3, a connection section 402 for connecting the inner end 400 to the outer end 401 so as to be elastically deformed, and an opening 403 which is divided between the inner end 400 and the outer end 401, and faces the connection section 402 in a vehicle width direction are aligned in a circumferential direction. The plurality of springs 40 are arranged so that the opening 403 and the connection section 402 may be alternately aligned along the circumferential direction viewed from one side in the vehicle width direction.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for quantitatively evaluating the rigidity of a walking aid having a joint portion according to the actual usage state.SOLUTION: In the method for evaluating a walking aid including a foot frame, a lower leg frame rotatably connected to the foot frame by an ankle joint portion, an upper limb frame rotatably connected to the lower leg frame by a knee joint portion, and an actuator for adding a torque to the knee joint portion, by use of an evaluation tool including a base portion, a foot portion fixed to the base portion, a lower leg portion rotatably connected to the foot portion by an ankle rotating portion, and an upper limb portion rotatably connected to the lower leg portion by a knee rotating portion, the walking aid is installed to the evaluation tool, and the upper limb portion is loaded toward the base portion in a state where the actuator is controlled so as to apply, to the knee joint portion, a torque in a direction from a current angle to a target angle to detect a displacement of the upper limb portion.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a walking aid device capable of adding assisting force to only one of dorsiflexion and plantar flexion without generating the assisting force to the other. SOLUTION: The walking aid device has a spring unit which supplies force in a direction opposite to a swing direction to a swung foot brace. The spring unit has a first member, a second member and a compression spring, and the second member is freely slidably attached to the first member. The compression spring is disposed at the overlapping part of the first member and the second member, and the compression spring is energized in the direction of pulling the second member into the first member. The first member is provided with a regulation part for regulating the extendable length of the spring to a prescribed length shorter than a natural length. That is, when the spring is compressed to the extendable length or shorter, the compression spring generates restoration force in the direction of pulling the second member into the first member. The second member can be pulled into the first member exceeding the extendable length of the spring. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT