US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Moving body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,010, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Moving body" was invented by Taiki Iimura (Saitama, Japan), Shintaro Uchida (Saitama, Japan), Nobuyuki Ohashi (Saitama, Japan), Ritsuya Oshima (Saitama, Japan), Jun Inada (Saitama, Japan) and Hiroshi Iwakami (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving body includes a pair of left and right omnidirectional wheels and a control device. Each omnidirectional wheel includes a pair of drive disks, a main wheel, a pair of electric motors, a pair of transmission mechanisms, a pair of electric current sensors, and a pair of angular velocity sensors. The control d...