281 |
Electrical system for gyroscopic stabilized vehicle |
US12875055 |
2010-09-02 |
US08918239B2 |
2014-12-23 |
Daniel Kee Young Kim; Kevin Bretney |
Embodiments of the invention may transfer energy from a flywheel motor-generator to a capacitor bank in response to detecting an input to increase the speed of a vehicle, and transfer energy from a drive wheel motor-generator to a capacitor bank in response to detecting an input to decrease the speed of the vehicle. The flywheel motor-generator may function to transfer energy to and from a flywheel included in a gyroscope-stabilizer of the vehicle, while the capacitor bank, which includes a battery, may function to transfer energy to and from a drive wheel of the vehicle. |
282 |
Multifunctional Passive Air Bag Knapsack |
US13748645 |
2013-01-24 |
US20140203056A1 |
2014-07-24 |
Ai-Ling Tsai |
A knapsack includes a main body, a strap, and a pull ring. The main body has a receiving space which has a mounting portion which is connected with an air inflation bottle which has an output terminal which has a pin. The strap has is connected with the main body and has a safety air bag which is connected to the output terminal of the air inflation bottle. The pull ring is extended into the strap and is connected with the pin. Thus, when the safety air bag is triggered, the safety air bag is expanded to surround the user's body, so that the knapsack can buffer the shock and protect the user's body. |
283 |
Self-releasing vehicular harness |
US13732593 |
2013-01-02 |
US08783722B1 |
2014-07-22 |
Gerald F. Gallo |
The self-releasing vehicular harness is a harness designed to prevent a driver or rider of a motorcycle from flying over the handlebars during a head-on or upright collision. The self-releasing vehicular harness includes a tether that extends from the harness to a spring-loaded drum located in a housing positioned to the rear of the end user. The housing contains at least one tensioning means that releases the drum in order to enable the tether to unroll thereby releasing the end user from the vehicle in the event of a non-head-on collision or other parameter. An inclinometer detects the angle of the vehicle in order to determine whether to release or lock the spring-loaded drum. A kill switch and/or seat sensor may work in conjunction with the inclinometer to further define parameters for releasing or locking the tether. |
284 |
VEHICLE SAFETY DEVICE |
US13969111 |
2013-08-16 |
US20140092612A1 |
2014-04-03 |
Erik Dillon Freiser |
An vehicle lighting apparatus that can be used to increase the visibility profile of a vehicle is described. The apparatus includes a base adapted to connect to a vehicle frame; a power supply; and an elongated light source supported by the base and coupled to the power supply. The elongated light source is adapted to extend above the vehicle frame with respect to a surface the vehicle frame is to traverse thereon. |
285 |
ALVEOLAR CAGE |
US13261686 |
2010-12-29 |
US20140062073A1 |
2014-03-06 |
Sonia Regina De Castro |
It is characterized by a cage structure (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14) fitted with safety belts that can be simply attached or rested on supports (1, 2, 3, 15) and fixed onto motorcycles, moto scooters, tricycles or ATVs, and which can be ejected through impact of any eventual accidents. It is composed of modules (4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14) that have bends or sharp curves, which are joined using two plates (5, 9), one on either side, which can be molded around the curves and fastened onto one another, without the need for drilling holes in the tubes, thus maintaining their overall strength. The top module (8) and the side shields (19) can have a hood made of a malleable material, with covered Styrofoam plates on the inside, reinforced with strips made of rubber, plastic or a similar material. |
286 |
ACTIVE DOWNFORCE GENERATION FOR A TILTING VEHICLE |
US13972706 |
2013-08-21 |
US20140058624A1 |
2014-02-27 |
John Austin Muth |
An example can include a frame of a vehicle. An example can include at least two wheels coupled to the frame, wherein at least one of the wheels is configured to pivot around a steering axis. An example can include a cornering force sensor to measure a cornering force of the frame with respect to the surface and produce a cornering force signal. An example can include a thrust generation controller to receive the cornering force signal and to produce a desired downforce signal. An example can include and a thrust generator to receive the desired downforce signal and to pump air through at least one of the at least two wheels to produce lateral force on the wheel in association with the desired downforce signal. |
287 |
Flywheel assemblies and vehicles including same |
US12984167 |
2011-01-04 |
US08640809B2 |
2014-02-04 |
Joseph P. W. Whinnery |
A vehicle includes a frame, an engine, a steering assembly, a steerable wheel, a brake system, a flywheel assembly, and a controller. The frame defines a roll axis. The engine is supported by the frame. The steering assembly is pivotally coupled with the frame and is pivotable about a steering axis. The steerable wheel is rotatably coupled with the steering assembly. The flywheel assembly comprises at least one inertial mass and is coupled with the frame. A controller is coupled with the flywheel assembly and is configured to facilitate rotation of said at least one inertial mass. |
288 |
AIRBAG APPARATUS |
US14007437 |
2011-12-27 |
US20140015235A1 |
2014-01-16 |
Kazutaka Sugimoto; Hideo Namiki; Fujio Umebayashi; Takumi Makabe |
An airbag apparatus is provided having an inflator in which the waterproofing property of the connection between an initiator and a harness for distributing power is ensured by potting, and leakage at the time of the filling of a potting material is prevented. An airbag apparatus includes a bag portion formed of a base cloth panel in a bag shape and deployed and inflated by being supplied with gas for deployment, and an inflator that generates the gas for deployment supplied to the bag portion. The inflator includes a gas-generating agent, an initiator that causes the gas-generating agent to start gas-generating reaction, a housing that houses the gas-generating agent and the initiator, a harness for distributing power that supplies power to the initiator from the outside through an opening formed in the housing, a cap member disposed so as to face the surface of the housing around the opening, an annular elastic member disposed so as to surround the opening and so as to be sandwiched between the surface of the housing and a surface portion of the cap member facing thereto, and a potting material P filled in a space between the housing and the cap member on the inner side of the elastic member. |
289 |
Airbag system of saddle-ride type vehicle |
US12877201 |
2010-09-08 |
US08590924B2 |
2013-11-26 |
Yasuto Yamada; Satoshi Iijima |
An airbag system of a saddle-ride type vehicle can include an airbag which is configured to be inflated and deployed in front of a rider. The airbag includes a plurality of expansion chambers, with the expansion chambers configured to be different in internal pressure during inflation and deployment. |
290 |
Saddle-type vehicle |
US13554644 |
2012-07-20 |
US08567813B2 |
2013-10-29 |
Seiji Hanafusa |
A saddle-type vehicle equipped with an airbag apparatus in which an increase in the number of component parts can be restrained. A motorcycle is a vehicle in which seat rails are included in a rear portion of a body frame with a rider seat having a front end portion upwardly inclined towards the front side of the vehicle that is mounted on the seat rails. An airbag module accommodating an airbag therein and fixed by an airbag mounting stay extending upwardly from the body frame and is disposed on the front side of the rider seat. A seat hook for holding the front end portion of the rider seat extends from the airbag module or from the airbag mounting stay. |
291 |
MULTIPLE AXIS ROTARY GYROSCOPE FOR VEHICLE ATTITUDE CONTROL |
US13777939 |
2013-02-26 |
US20130274995A1 |
2013-10-17 |
Daniel Kee Young Kim; Brandon Basso |
In embodiments of the invention, a vehicle stabilization control unit may determine a control moment value for one or more gyroscopes coupled to a vehicle frame to exert for stabilization of the vehicle frame. A number of input axes for the flywheels of the one or more gyroscopes to precess may be increased in order to generate the determined control moment value. In some embodiments, the one or more gyroscopes are further coupled to a turntable, and increasing the number of input axes for the flywheels comprises rotating the turntable. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the one or more gyroscopes comprise at least two gyroscopes coupled inline to the vehicle frame (e.g., aligned lengthwise with respect to the front and rear wheel to spin and precess in opposite directions with respect to each other). |
292 |
Safety device for motorized vehicles and methods of use thereof |
US12824401 |
2010-06-28 |
US08529093B2 |
2013-09-10 |
Oscar Fuentes |
Embodiments of a safety device for motorized vehicles and methods of use thereof are herein disclosed. In one embodiment, the safety device includes a mountable lighting device in electrical communication with a momentary switch. The lighting device may include a plurality of non-coherent light sources which may flash in a particular sequence. In one embodiment, the lighting device may be activated to flash once to signal to a motorist that a motorcyclist is to pass. The lighting device may be activated to flash twice to signal to a motorist that the motorcyclist is approaching. The lighting device may be activated to flash three times to signal to a motorist that the motorcyclist is passing. |
293 |
SAFETY DEVICE ON STEERING HANDLE |
US13785623 |
2013-03-05 |
US20130205938A1 |
2013-08-15 |
Mau-Pin Hsu; Hsin-Wei Su; Chih-Hao Wang; Ruei-Fu Wang |
Disclosed is a safety device on a steering handle, capable of controlling a direction-control wheel of a wheeled vehicle. The handlebar is engaged with the head part by its mortise with a tenon of the head part. When an outer bar end of the handlebar is hit, an inner tube of the handlebar will be pushed to disengage the mortise and the tenon to rotate the handlebar along. Alternatively, paired washers with wedge-shaped teeth can be utilized to engage the handlebar with the head part. When the outer bar end is hit, the washers are disengaged to allow the handlebar to rotate. Moreover, a hydraulic system or an inserting rod with a chassis groove system can be employed to maintain the original direction of the direction-control wheel when the handlebar is hit. Therefore, a sudden turn of the direction-control wheel and an fall-over of the rider and the vehicle can be prevented. |
294 |
Airbag jacket activating system |
US13051005 |
2011-03-18 |
US08505670B2 |
2013-08-13 |
Sumitaka Ogawa; Hiroyuki Kojima |
A human body communications transmitter is provided to a vehicle body, for transmitting an activation signal by using the human body of a rider as a transmission path on the basis of an instruction from an on-vehicle ECU. A human body communications receiver is provided to an airbag jacket for receiving the activation signal which is transmitted by using the human body of the rider as the transmission path. The in-jacket ECU inflates and thus deploys the airbag jacket upon receipt of the activation signal for the airbag jacket through either human body communications or radio communications. The human body communications transmitter is connected to a right handlebar portion electrode, a left handlebar portion electrode, a seat portion electrode, a right footrest portion electrode and a left footrest portion electrode. The human body communications receiver is connected to an in-jacket electrode adjacent to the human body. |
295 |
Two-wheeled vehicle |
US13416663 |
2012-03-09 |
US08496082B2 |
2013-07-30 |
Gus A Aramayo, II; Ronald A. Vorndran |
A two-wheeled vehicle is disclosed. The two-wheeled vehicle may include a passenger hand grip which is stowable under a straddle seat of the vehicle. The two-wheeled vehicle may include saddlebags having an open bottom. |
296 |
VEHICLE SAFETY ANTI-COLLISION DEVICE |
US13877895 |
2011-07-08 |
US20130187370A1 |
2013-07-25 |
Xue-qing Zhang |
Disclosed is a vehicle safety anti-collision device, which includes an outer housing, a buffer material block, a bracket, and a bracket base. Said outer housing is provided with a front end portion, a connecting portion extending from both sides of the front end portion, and a receiving opening formed by said connecting portions and said front end portion. Said bracket is in the shape of an arch bridge and is provided with an arch portion received in said receiving opening and mounting portions on both ends of the arch portion. Said buffer material block is sandwiched between said outer housing and said bracket, and the connecting portions of said outer housing are fixed to the said bracket. With the vehicle safety anti-collision device, the energy generated during a vehicle collision can be absorbed immensely, and the damage caused by collision to the vehicle and people can be reduced. |
297 |
MOTORCYCLE PASSENGER BAR |
US13296021 |
2011-11-14 |
US20130119636A1 |
2013-05-16 |
Charlie Hon |
A passenger bar for motorcycles is disclosed. The passenger bar is affixed to the gas tank of a motorcycle forward of the motorcycle driver such that a passenger behind the motorcycle driver with arms wrapped around the driver may grip the passenger bar to secure himself/herself while the motorcycle is accelerating, decelerating, or experiences lateral forces. The passenger bar comprises a mounting plate, in one embodiment, and a handle inclined away from the mounting bracket. |
298 |
Motorcycle with wind deflectors mounted on the outboard sides of the motorcycle fork assembly for deflecting oncoming wind |
US13328059 |
2011-12-16 |
US08424949B2 |
2013-04-23 |
Ralph Alexander Ransone |
A motorcycle having a fork assembly, left and right forks and an upper fairing is provided with left and right wind deflectors mounted adjacent to the outboard sides of the left and right forks. The wind deflectors project downwardly from a lower edge of the upper fairing. This strategic placement of the left and right wind deflectors prevents oncoming wind from passing immediately adjacent the outboard sides of the left and right forks and passing underneath the lower edge of the upper fairing and hitting the motorcycle rider especially in the chest and helmet areas. |
299 |
Saddle-type vehicle |
US12766690 |
2010-04-23 |
US08424902B2 |
2013-04-23 |
Seiji Hanafusa |
A saddle-type vehicle equipped with an airbag apparatus in which an increase in the number of component parts can be restrained. A motorcycle is a vehicle in which seat rails are included in a rear portion of a body frame with a rider seat having a front end portion upwardly inclined towards the front side of the vehicle that is mounted on the seat rails. An airbag module accommodating an airbag therein and fixed by an airbag mounting stay extending upwardly from the body frame and is disposed on the front side of the rider seat. A seat hook for holding the front end portion of the rider seat extends from the airbag module or from the airbag mounting stay. |
300 |
STEERING SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR A TWO-WHEELER AS WELL AS A CONTROL FOR SUCH A STEERING SUPPORT SYSTEM |
US13604345 |
2012-09-05 |
US20130066522A1 |
2013-03-14 |
Hardy HAAS; Markus Lemejda; Peter Ziegler |
A control for a steering support system for a two-wheeled vehicle is provided. The steering support system has an actuator with the aid of which a steering torque is applied to the two-wheeled vehicle. The actuator is, for example, an electric motor which cooperates with a steering tube. The control triggers the actuator in a targeted manner to effect a desired steering torque. Furthermore, various sensors are provided for detecting vehicle dynamics parameters, such as a steering angle, a steering torque, accelerations acting on the two-wheeled vehicle, or speeds of wheels of the two-wheeled vehicle. Based on the parameters detected by the sensors, the actuator may be triggered to effect a steering torque. |