Patents Assigned to WHILL, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11938752
    Abstract: An omnidirectional wheel whose outer circumference surface is formed by pluralities of rollers, and includes a rotating part that rotates around a rotation axis. A plurality of supports are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotating part and each mounted on the rotating part. The rollers include a plurality of first rollers and a plurality of second rollers. Each support has a first arm supporting one end side of a corresponding first roller of the plurality of first rollers, and a second arm supporting the other end side of the corresponding first roller. A corresponding second roller of the plurality of second rollers is supported by the first arm of one of two supports that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction and the second arm of the other one of the two supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuntaro Sugimoto, Kazuo Bando, Satoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11866121
    Abstract: An electric mobility vehicle including a front-wheel-side body, a rear-wheel-side body, a seat on which a passenger sits in an in-use state, and a linking mechanism that links the front-wheel-side body with the rear-wheel-side body so as to be pivotable about a pivoting axis extending in a vehicle width direction. The electric mobility vehicle is foldable by pivoting the front-wheel-side body and the rear-wheel-side body relative to each other in a vehicle front-to-rear direction. The electric mobility vehicle includes a footrest provided in the front-wheel-side body, a front-end roller or a front-end caster provided in the front-wheel-side body and disposed at a vehicle front side relative to a front end of the front wheel in the in-use state, and comes into contact with the floor surface in the folded state to make the electric mobility vehicle stand alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: WHILL, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Masahiro Toriyama, Shogo Onishi, Ren Akama, Shuyu Hsu, Shin Nagata
  • Patent number: 11827053
    Abstract: This electromobility vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a seat unit mounted to the vehicle frame, a suspension mounted to a front-end side of the vehicle frame, a pair of front wheels aligned in a direction parallel to a width dimension of the vehicle and supported by the suspension, at least one rear wheel supported by the vehicle frame, and a drive device that drives either of the front wheels and the rear wheel, where the front wheels are omnidirectional wheels whose outer circumferential surfaces are formed by a plurality of rollers and the pair of front wheels is supported by the suspension such that it is placed in a toe-in arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hirata, Tsuyoshi Uchino, Satoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20230041840
    Abstract: This electromobility vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a seat unit mounted to the vehicle frame, a suspension mounted to a front-end side of the vehicle frame, a pair of front wheels aligned in a direction parallel to a width dimension of the vehicle and supported by the suspension, at least one rear wheel supported by the vehicle frame, and a drive device that drives either of the front wheels and the rear wheel, where the front wheels are omnidirectional wheels whose outer circumferential surfaces are formed by a plurality of rollers and the pair of front wheels is supported by the suspension such that it is placed in a toe-in arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro HIRATA, Tsuyoshi UCHINO, Satoshi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11511564
    Abstract: This electromobility vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a seat unit mounted to the vehicle frame, a suspension mounted to a front-end side of the vehicle frame, a pair of front wheels aligned in a direction parallel to a width dimension of the vehicle and supported by the suspension, at least one rear wheel supported by the vehicle frame, and a drive device that drives either of the front wheels and the rear wheel, where the front wheels are omnidirectional wheels whose outer circumferential surfaces are formed by a plurality of rollers and the pair of front wheels is supported by the suspension such that it is placed in a toe-in arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: WHILL, INC
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hirata, Tsuyoshi Uchino, Satoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11273668
    Abstract: The omnidirectional wheel includes a first support portion which rotates around a rotation axis line, a second support portion which rotates together with the first plate-like member, a number of support shafts respectively supporting a number of rollers, and a number of support plates fixed to the first and the second support portions and which support one or more of the support shafts between the first and second support portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuntaro Sugimoto, Kazuo Bando
  • Publication number: 20210089037
    Abstract: A travel route creation system which creates a travel route for a personal mobility vehicle, the system including a controller configured to create the travel route in which an entering angle to a bump or a slope is set within an angle range of 45° and more based on map data indicating the bump or the slope which the personal mobility vehicle can travel over, when creating the travel route for the personal mobility vehicle to pass the bump or the slope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Muneaki FUKUOKA, Shunsuke KATSUMATA
  • Publication number: 20210085541
    Abstract: An electric mobility vehicle including a mobility body, wheels provided at both sides in a vehicle width direction of the mobility body, and a sensor attached to the mobility body. An area which is located outside the wheel in the vehicle width direction, and at least one of a part of the wheel, and a part of the fender of the wheel are positioned within a detection area of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke TAKEI, Seiya SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10849802
    Abstract: A connector structure in an electric mobility device including a mobility body driven by a motor, a seat unit which includes an operation unit to control the motor and which is detachably attached to a seat attachment member of the mobility body, and a seat height adjustment mechanism which adjusts a height position of the seat attachment member to adjust a height position of the seat unit relative to the mobility body. The connector structure connects a signal line provided in the seat unit to a signal line of the mobility body, and includes a first connector attached to the seat unit and connected to the signal line which is connected to the operation unit, and a second connector attached to the seat attachment member and connected to the signal line of the mobility body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: WHILL, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hirata, Toyotaka Kozuki
  • Publication number: 20200047548
    Abstract: The omnidirectional wheel includes a first support portion which rotates around a rotation axis line, a second support portion which rotates together with the first plate-like member, a number of support shafts respectively supporting a number of rollers, and a number of support plates fixed to the first and the second support portions and which support one or more of the support shafts between the first and second support portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuntaro SUGIMOTO, Kazuo BANDO
  • Publication number: 20200039288
    Abstract: This electromobility vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a seat unit mounted to the vehicle frame, a suspension mounted to a front-end side of the vehicle frame, a pair of front wheels aligned in a direction parallel to a width dimension of the vehicle and supported by the suspension, at least one rear wheel supported by the vehicle frame, and a drive device that drives either of the front wheels and the rear wheel, where the front wheels are omnidirectional wheels whose outer circumferential surfaces are formed by a plurality of rollers and the pair of front wheels is supported by the suspension such that it is placed in a toe-in arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro HIRATA, Tsuyoshi UCHINO, Satoshi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9669868
    Abstract: An operation unintended by a helper due to an incorrect operation or the like by an operator is prevented. An electric mobility includes a manual operation unit, a wireless operation unit, and a control unit that controls a driving wheel on the basis of either a first command signal output by the manual operation unit or a second command signal output by the wireless operation unit. The control unit sets a first control mode enabling an operation of the electric driving wheel by the manual operation unit and a second control mode disabling an operation of the electric driving wheel by the manual operation unit on the basis of a wireless signal transmitted from a wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: WHILL Inc.
    Inventors: Muneaki Fukuoka, Yoshihiro Hirata, Shuichi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9436207
    Abstract: There is provided an operation device provided with: an operation member displaceable by an operator; a two-dimensional support mechanism in which a pair of one-dimensional support mechanisms that individually displaceably supports the operation member 11 in mutually crossing two directions are connected in series; and a pair of potentiometers that individually biases the operation member 11 toward a neutral position of displacement by the respective one-dimensional support mechanisms, in which biasing forces that the pair of potentiometers applies to the operation member against displacement of the operation member are different from each other, and in which a command signal according to the displacement of the operation member of the respective one-dimensional support mechanisms is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: WHILL Inc.
    Inventors: Muneaki Fukuoka, Naoto Sakakibara
  • Patent number: D769775
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: WHILL Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi Sugie
  • Patent number: D848317
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: WHILL INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugie, Shu Kanno
  • Patent number: D890635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: WHILL INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugie, Shu Kanno
  • Patent number: D926087
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Masahiro Toriyama, Satoshi Sugie
  • Patent number: D940603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: WHILL, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugie, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Masahiro Toriyama
  • Patent number: D958704
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Masahiro Toriyama, Satoshi Sugie
  • Patent number: D990382
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: WHILL, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugie, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto, Masahiro Toriyama