US 12,103,348 B2
Vehicle
Tomokazu Sakamoto, Saitama (JP); and Kazumasa Ozaki, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/173,764.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-043159 (JP), filed on Mar. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294475 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B60G 17/019 (2006.01)
CPC B60G 17/01908 (2013.01) [B60G 2300/24 (2013.01); B60G 2400/0511 (2013.01); B60G 2400/0512 (2013.01); B60G 2500/30 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body frame;
a vehicle body tilt sensor which is provided at the vehicle body frame and detects a tilt angle of the vehicle body frame;
a drive unit which is coupled to the vehicle body frame and moves the vehicle body frame along a floor surface by inverted pendulum control based on the tilt angle detected by the vehicle body tilt sensor; and
a seat comprising a seat body on which a user sits and a leg part extending downward, the seat being capable of being raised and lowered between a low position at which the leg part is in contact with the floor surface and a high position at which the leg part separates from the floor surface, and the seat being elastically coupled to the vehicle body frame,
wherein a seat tilt sensor which detects a tilt angle of the seat is provided at the seat.