US 11,718,361 B2
Moving device
Ryosuke Yamamura, Tokyo (JP); Yoshihiro Kawahara, Tokyo (JP); Ryuma Niiyama, Tokyo (JP); Hiroki Sato, Tokyo (JP); and Young ah Seong, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MERCARI, INC., Tokyo (JP); and THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by MERCARI, INC., Tokyo (JP); and The University of Tokyo, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/334,579.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-096193 (JP), filed on Jun. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0371039 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. B62K 19/02 (2006.01); B62K 11/02 (2006.01); B62K 21/00 (2006.01); B62J 25/00 (2020.01); B62K 5/06 (2006.01); B62K 5/027 (2013.01)
CPC B62K 19/02 (2013.01) [B62J 25/00 (2013.01); B62K 11/02 (2013.01); B62K 21/00 (2013.01); B62K 5/027 (2013.01); B62K 5/06 (2013.01); B62K 2202/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A moving device that is movable with rotation of a wheel, the device comprising:
a body unit inflated by injection of fluid and deflated by discharge of the fluid;
a support body provided on a predetermined surface of the body unit; and
the wheel provided in the support body;
the body unit having a predetermined portion receiving a load from an object contacting the body unit, the predetermined portion having an interior formed with a drop-stitch structure, the drop-stitch structure after injection of the fluid having tensile forces in directions approximately perpendicular to a direction of the load applied to the predetermined portion by the object.