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Vehicle forming a self-balancing human transporter with an integrated photovoltaic module

US8978791B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR

Inventors

Duy Long Ha · Chambéry, FR
Olivier Wiss · Val-de-Reuil, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 28, 2010
Grant date	Mar 17, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 28, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T10/7072
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle forming a self-balancing human transporter, or “gyropode”, including a photovoltaic module to charge a battery electrically or to partially power an electric motor electrically from solar energy. The photovoltaic module includes a first portion which is fixed and extends along a standing and driving handle, and a second portion which is retractable between an extreme retracted position in which it allows the gyropode to be moved, and an extreme deployed position in which it acts as a stand for holding the gyropode when stopped with a determined inclination enabling optimum efficiency of the photovoltaic module to be obtained relative to a position of the sun.

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