Abstract: To provide a moving body that is capable of more flexible movement. Provided is a moving body including four or more legs that have wheels at ends thereof and are able to be controlled along two or more axes, and a body supported at the four or more legs, in which the four or more legs include two or more front wheel legs that are capable of swinging forward in an advancing direction of the body, and two or more rear wheel legs that are capable of swinging backward in the advancing direction of the body, and the front wheel legs and the rear wheel legs are capable of swinging to such positions that the wheels overlap one another in a direction orthogonal to the advancing direction.

Abstract: An industrial truck includes a vehicle frame and a drive unit. The drive unit includes a drive wheel movably mounted to the vehicle frame and a spring unit. The spring unit includes a hydraulic cylinder positioned between the vehicle frame and the drive unit and a switchable valve configured to define a blocked state. The spring unit is configured to pretension the drive wheel against a ground surface. When the switchable valve is in the blocked state, a one-sided movement of the hydraulic cylinder is blocked.

Abstract: A steering column device includes a column shaft to which a steering wheel is fixed, and a steering column that rotatably supports the column shaft. The steering column includes a housing that is configured to be supported by a vehicle body, a column tube that is accommodated in the housing so as to be movable in an axial direction, and a contact pad that is disposed between the housing and the column tube. The contact pad is fixed to the column tube, and is also configured to press against the housing from an inner side.

Abstract: A suspension arm includes a main body. The main body includes a curved portion curved along a longitudinal direction and has a closed section. The main body includes an inner side wall, an outer side wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The inner side wall corresponds to an inner side of a curve of the curved portion. The outer side wall corresponds to an outer side of the curve of the curved portion. A thickness of the inner side wall is larger than a thickness of the outer side wall. In sectional view of the main body perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of a length of the first side wall and a length of the second side wall is longer than each of a length of the inner side wall and a length of the outer side wall.

Abstract: A driving module of an autonomous mobile robot is provided. The driving module includes a first wheel in constant contact with ground or road surface and having a first rotational axis; second and third wheels constrained in their positions relative to each other; a rear bar on which a second rotational axis of the second wheel is positioned at one end, an upper axis portion is provided at the other end, and an intermediate axis portion is provided in the middle; a front bar on which a third rotational axis of the third wheel is positioned at one end, in which the other end of the front bar is pivotably coupled to the intermediate axis portion; and a suspension unit of which one end is pivotably coupled to the upper axis portion and the other end is pivotably coupled to the third rotational axis or the front bar.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a roof airbag apparatus for a vehicle which protects the occupant seated in the cabin in such a manner that the roof airbag is deployed downward from the cabin roof, and safely protects the occupant from impact in such a manner that the occupant is securely restrained by the airbag as the deployment shape of the airbag is maintained.

Abstract: A kit for reducing handlebar shake in a three-wheel motorcycle with dual front wheels, having a frame, a steering column and a connecting rod that couples the steering column to the dual front wheels, includes a linear steering stabilizer that includes a cylinder member and a piston rod. A portion of the piston rod fits slidingly in the cylinder member. The piston rod terminates in a connecting end. A body bracket is attached to the cylinder member. A first bracket is affixable to the frame and is affixable to the connecting end of the piston rod of the linear steering stabilizer. A second bracket is affixable to a selected one of the steering column or the connecting rod and is affixable to the body bracket attached to the cylinder member. The linear steering stabilizer is damps handlebar shake during operation of the three-wheel motorcycle.

Abstract: A system for determining a blood alcohol level of a subject may include a single light-emitting diode (LED) or, in some embodiments, two LEDs that may be operated in a pulsed mode and may illuminate a target location on a subject (e.g., a portion of a distal phalanx of a finger) with multiple illuminated light pulses. The system may include a photosensor that may sense multiple light pulses received from (e.g., reflected from, or transmitted through) the target location and generate multiple output signals. The system may include a controller that may determine a blood alcohol level of the subject based on the multiple output signals. Utilization of a single LED/two LEDs and operation thereof in a pulsed mode may prevent (or significantly reduce) heating of the LED(s) and/or the photosensor, thus eliminating a need in cooling units.

Abstract: A vehicle suspension link may include a bushing, a knuckle, a link arm operably coupled to the knuckle via the bushing at a ring formed at one end of the link arm, and a coupling assembly disposed between the knuckle and the bushing. The coupling assembly may include a serrated face and a one-way install feature extending out of a plane of the serrated face to permit orientation of the bushing in the ring such that the serrated face is oriented toward the knuckle, and prevent orientation of the serrated face away from the knuckle.

Abstract: An input module, able to be retrofitted in a vehicle, for controlling a vehicle, having a haptic input element, at least one sensor, at least one electronic circuit that is able to determine a sensor signal, at least one force feedback element, and a housing having at least one electrical interface. The sensor, the electronic circuit and the force feedback element are accommodated completely in the housing and the input element is accommodated partially in the housing. The force feedback is calculated in the electronic circuit and is able to be adjusted dynamically and adapted to a specific the driver. The invention also relates to a modular control system having the input module cited above, a data bus and at least one central distributor module.

Abstract: A vehicle drivetrain device, configured to be mounted between a vehicle frame and a wheel axle of a vehicle, comprises a driving assembly and a shock absorber, connected to the vehicle frame and the driving assembly. The driving assembly comprises a transmitting mechanism, pivotally connected to the vehicle frame and connected to the wheel axle, and a driving mechanism mounted at a side of the transmitting mechanism and outputting power to the wheel axle through the transmitting mechanism. The driving assembly of the vehicle drivetrain device possesses functions of a rear rocker arm and provides power. Therefore, a space between the vehicle frame and the wheel axle can be used efficiently, and the occupancy of a usable space below the vehicle frame is decreased. Furthermore, the transmitting mechanism can be directly connected to the wheel axle by a gear set, simplifying a total structure, thereby lowering the cost.

Abstract: A wheel carrier device for a vehicle, with at least one wheel carrier which has at least one bearing point at which at least one wheel bearing is to be mounted for rotatably mounting a wheel hub, wherein the wheel carrier is at least partially surrounded on the outer circumference by at least one thermal insulation element.

Abstract: A vehicle front section structure includes: a power unit installed at a front section; a left and right pair of front side frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a left and right pair of front side members extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side of the left and right pair of front side frames, with rear end portions of the front side members being respectively joined to the left and right pair of front side frames; a cross member disposed at a vehicle rear side and obliquely upward of the power unit so as to span between the left and right pair of front side members and to support a driving seat of the vehicle; and a reinforcement brace spanning between the cross member and at least one front side member of the left front side member or a right front side member.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle steering apparatus, the vehicle steering apparatus includes a main housing; a worm shaft rotatably disposed on the main housing; a worm wheel meshed with the worm shaft; a bearing disposed on the worm shaft; an elastically deformable guide surrounding an outer surface of the bearing and disposed within the main housing; and a pressing part extending through the elastically deformable guide to be in contact with the bearing and configured to press the worm shaft toward the worm wheel.

Abstract: A shaft connection 1 for a longitudinal shaft assembly, has at least a first shaft having a first and second ends, and a second shaft, disposed so as to be coaxial with the first shaft, having first and second ends; the shafts extending axially. The first end forms a hollow portion. The first shaft end forms a first journal having a displacement portion. The first shaft end at least in an initial position of the shaft connection extends through the hollow portion which axially by the displacement portion forms a guide portion and circumferentially forms a form-fitting first connection. In the initial position a mutual axial displacement of the first and second shafts is prevented by an axial securing feature. In a crash the axial securing feature; is releasable by an axial release force. The first shaft is axially displaceable relative to the second shaft.

Abstract: A battery frame is fixed to a chassis and a battery pack is assembled to the battery frame. The battery frame includes a pair of crossbars and a pair of side bars. The crossbars extend in the vehicle width direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle front-rear direction, and have both ends in the vehicle width direction fixed to the side members. The side bars extend in the vehicle front-rear direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle width direction, and have front ends and rear ends detachably fixed to the crossbars.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a vehicle seat having a seatback. An airbag is inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position. A linear actuator is fixed to the seatback and the airbag. The airbag is moveable by the linear actuator from an undeployed position upwardly away from the seatback to a deployed position. The linear actuator supports the airbag on the seatback in the uninflated position and in the inflated position.

Abstract: A ROPS frame for a work vehicle includes: a first pipe having an end; a second pipe having an end facing the end of the first pipe; a plate-shaped first joint coupled to the end of the first pipe and oriented orthogonally to a longitudinal direction of the pipes; a plate-shaped second joint coupled to the end of the second pipe and oriented orthogonally to the longitudinal direction of the pipes, the second joint being placed on the first joint; and a bolt extending through the first and second joints and fastening the first and second joints to each other.

Abstract: A connection structure of a battery pack and a vehicle body including a left stringer, a right stringer, and a crossbeam, includes at least a first connection member configured to connect the battery pack and the crossbeam. The first connection member includes a first inclination plate and a second inclination plate arranged at intervals along a left-right direction, the first inclination plate is positioned at a side of the second inclination plate to be close to the right stringer, one end of each of the first inclination plate and the second inclination plate is connected to the crossbeam, and the other end of each of the first inclination plate and the second inclination plate is connected to the battery pack, a first/second extension plane of the first/second inclination plate that is the closest to the right/left stringer intersects the right/left stringer.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an automatic correction device for erroneous acceleration of an automobile, which includes an accelerator pedal, a robotic arm, and an acceleration sensor. The acceleration sensor is connected to a central control computer of the automobile. An error correction control box is arranged on a front cab baffle in front of the robotic arm. An elastic damper having a signal switch is arranged on a side wall of the error correction control box directly facing the robotic arm. The accelerator pedal enables the robotic arm abuts against the elastic damper. When excessive depression is applied, the elastic damper is compressed and deformed by the robotic arm and triggers the signal switch. After the signal switch is triggered, a clear warning sound or a humming sound is sent to prompt a driver to stop the excessive depression.