Class Information
Number: 180/199
Name: Motor vehicles > With powered, ground-engaging means for producing, or assisting in the production of, lateral movement of the vehicle (e.g., for parking)
Description: Vehicle provided with powered means for engaging the ground and lifting one or more of the vehicle"s ground contacting members to relieve it of all or a part of its load and then either (1) transporting, while supporting, the one or more members in a sidewise direction, or (2) exerting, while at least part of the load is relieved, a sidewise thrust on the portion of the vehicle with which the one or more members are associated, or (3) supporting, after lifting, the one or more members, which members are at one end of the vehicle, for relatively friction-free sidewise movement (e.g., as on casters) and then cooperating with the motor of the vehicle to produce the sidewise movement of the members, and a resultant swinging of the vehicle, when (a) power is applied to the vehicle"s two, driven, ground-contacting members at its other end and (b) the appropriate one (depending upon the direction of swinging desired) of those two members is braked against rotation and thus utilized as a point of pivot for the swinging of the vehicle.
Sub-classes under this class:
Patents under this class:
| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7375651 |
Parking assistance apparatus |
May. 20, 2008 |
| 7311161 |
Hospital bed having a drive wheel unit |
Dec. 25, 2007 |
| 7272477 |
Vehicle parking assisting system and method |
Sep. 18, 2007 |
| 7256559 |
Walking structure of object |
Aug. 14, 2007 |
| 7155325 |
Parking assist apparatus |
Dec. 26, 2006 |
| 7099758 |
Parking assist apparatus |
Aug. 29, 2006 |
| 7085634 |
Parking assist apparatus and parking assist method for vehicle |
Aug. 1, 2006 |
| 6966725 |
Apparatus for spreading aggregate material on a road berm |
Nov. 22, 2005 |
| 6929082 |
Parking assist apparatus for vehicle and control method of same |
Aug. 16, 2005 |
| 6853313 |
Vehicle positioning device |
Feb. 8, 2005 |
| 6672417 |
Arrangement in a snowmobile equipped with an apparatus for intensifying steering |
Jan. 6, 2004 |
| 6584396 |
Method for determining the lateral acceleration of a motor vehicle |
Jun. 24, 2003 |
| 6326887 |
Vehicle parking aid system |
Dec. 4, 2001 |
| 6202009 |
Method for detecting fault of vehicle motion sensors |
Mar. 13, 2001 |
| 6196346 |
Device for transverse displacement of a vehicle and a vehicle provided therewith |
Mar. 6, 2001 |
| 6102419 |
Suspension system for electric car |
Aug. 15, 2000 |
| 6102147 |
Automatic steering system for vehicle |
Aug. 15, 2000 |
| 5884720 |
Parking device for vehicles |
Mar. 23, 1999 |
| 5742919 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically determining a lateral velocity of a motor vehicle |
Apr. 21, 1998 |
| 5742141 |
Semi-autonomous parking control system for a vehicle providing tactile feedback to a vehicle operator |
Apr. 21, 1998 |
| 5419580 |
Direction change device for use with an automobile |
May. 30, 1995 |
| 4997195 |
Pallet loader |
Mar. 5, 1991 |
| 4955450 |
Lifting device for motor vehicles |
Sep. 11, 1990 |
| 4938305 |
Automatic direction changing apparatus for vehicle |
Jul. 3, 1990 |
| 4931930 |
Automatic parking device for automobile |
Jun. 5, 1990 |
| 4776415 |
Safety control for baby's walker |
Oct. 11, 1988 |
| 4616726 |
Device for turning an articulated motor vehicle |
Oct. 14, 1986 |
| 4564209 |
Trailer hitch assembly |
Jan. 14, 1986 |
| 4516653 |
Vehicle mounted parking device for use on front wheel drive vehicles |
May. 14, 1985 |
| 4483405 |
Omnidirectional motorized wheelchair |
Nov. 20, 1984 |
| 4416344 |
Outriggered vehicle capable of crabwise translation |
Nov. 22, 1983 |
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