US 11,895,936 B2
Vehicle for cultivation and transportation
Guillermo Fabian Diaz Lankenau, Cambridge, MA (US); and Amos Greene Winter, V, Somerville, MA (US)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Appl. No. 17/605,822
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/030101
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/220028, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/838,603, filed on Apr. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0225555 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A01B 51/02 (2006.01); A01B 63/104 (2006.01); A01B 63/106 (2006.01); B62K 11/00 (2006.01); B62D 49/06 (2006.01); B62D 61/08 (2006.01); B62K 13/04 (2006.01)
CPC A01B 51/026 (2013.01) [A01B 63/104 (2013.01); A01B 63/106 (2013.01); B62K 11/00 (2013.01); B62D 49/0628 (2013.01); B62D 49/0657 (2013.01); B62D 61/08 (2013.01); B62K 13/04 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle, comprising:
a chassis having a length defined by a front-most end and a back-most end;
a first wheel disposed below the chassis;
a second wheel disposed behind the first wheel, the first wheel and the second wheel being vertically aligned along a longitudinal axis extending the length of the chassis;
a third wheel disposed behind the first wheel, the third wheel being disposed offset from the longitudinal axis extending the length of the chassis;
an outrigger arm disposed between and coupled to the third wheel and at least one of the chassis and the second wheel;
a tool disposed behind the first wheel and in front of the second wheel, the tool being disposed offset from the longitudinal axis extending the length of the chassis and configured to be driven downwards by at least one of a direct supply of an active force or an indirect supply of an active force, into ground over which the vehicle is traveling, such that the tool applies force to, and enters into, the ground; and
a motor disposed behind the first wheel and configured to drive at least one of the first wheel and the second wheel.