Title:
TRAVEL DEVICE CAPABLE OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEANDERING
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2020158096
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a travel device which can be used on curved and narrow rough ground, although a conventional travel device for rough ground such as a bulldozer could not travel in a disaster area or a collapsed building which became curved and narrow rough ground.SOLUTION: Plural carriages with wheels are arranged in series and with variable connection angles in one endless track ring which is bendable in all directions. In an inner peripheral surface of the endless track, plural projections overhanging in a width direction are provided in a circumferential direction, the wheel of the carriage rolls along the overhanging projection while holding the endless track. By steering the connection angle between the carriages, the endless track and the carriage integrally and three-dimensionally meander, thereby enabling travel on curved and narrow rough ground.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Inventors:
KAKETA TOSHIYUKI
Application Number:
JP2019075922A
Publication Date:
October 01, 2020
Filing Date:
March 26, 2019
Export Citation:
Assignee:
KAKETA TOSHIYUKI
International Classes:
B62D55/07; B25J5/00; B62D55/10; B62D55/12; B62D55/20