US 11,884,348 B2
Roll stabilization apparatus for two-wheeled vehicles
Amos G. Winter, Somerville, MA (US); Guillermo Fabian Diaz Lankenau, Cambridge, MA (US); Lea Daigle, Cambridge, MA (US); Patrick Tornes, Pensacola, FL (US); Eric Koch, Kansas City, MO (US); Samuel Ihns, Cambridge, MA (US); Jana Saadi, Hawthorne, NJ (US); and Jessica Wu, Norwell, MA (US)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Appl. No. 17/608,299
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
PCT Filed May 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/031380
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 2, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/223736, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/842,122, filed on May 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0250700 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. B62H 1/12 (2006.01); B62J 25/06 (2020.01); B62H 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC B62H 1/12 (2013.01) [B62H 1/14 (2013.01); B62J 25/06 (2020.02)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle to be operated by a user, the vehicle comprising:
a chassis;
a front wheel rotatably coupled to the chassis to facilitate movement of the vehicle over a ground surface;
a rear wheel rotatably coupled to the chassis to further facilitate the movement of the vehicle over the ground surface; and
a balance board disposed between the front wheel and the rear wheel and coupled to the chassis such that the balance board maintains contact with the ground surface, without an applied force to the balance board by the user, when the chassis rotates with respect to the ground surface about a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, the balance board comprising:
a coupling mechanism that couples the balance board to the chassis such that the balance board is rotatable with respect to the chassis about a plurality of orthogonal rotation axes; and
at least one of a first foot support assembly coupled to the coupling mechanism or a second foot support assembly coupled to the coupling mechanism,
wherein at least one of the first foot support assembly and the second foot support assembly is configured to rotate in response to a change in a steering angle of the balance board.