Abstract

The invention relates to a highly manoeuvrable hybrid motor vehicle (10) comprising a chassis (11), a body (12) mounted on this chassis and two steered and driven wheels (17, 27). The chassis (11) supports a front driving and steering unit (13) and a rear driving and steering unit (14), and each unit (13, 14) is provided with a supporting member (15, 25) that forms an independent module. This supporting member is constructed to support a motor (16, 26) and a wheel (17, 27) driven by this motor and is articulated with respect to the chassis (11). The vehicle also includes two free-rolling stabiliser wheels (40, 41) disposed on either side of the longitudinal axis of symmetry of the chassis (11). The supporting members (15, 25) of the two driving and steering units (13, 14) can move about a substantially vertical axis and have an angle of rotation of 360 degrees.

IPC Classes  ?

• B62B 3/00 - Hand carts having more than one axis carrying transport wheelsSteering devices thereforEquipment therefor
• B62D 61/04 - Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels, not otherwise provided for, e.g. four wheels in diamond pattern with two road wheels in tandem on the longitudinal centre line of the vehicle with two other wheels which are coaxial
• B60K 7/00 - Disposition of motor in, or adjacent to, traction wheel
• B60K 6/48 - Parallel type
• B62D 7/14 - Steering linkageStub axles or their mountings for individually-pivoted wheels, e.g. on king-pins the pivotal axes being situated in more than one plane transverse to the longitudinal centre line of the vehicle, e.g. all-wheel steering
• B62D 7/15 - Steering linkageStub axles or their mountings for individually-pivoted wheels, e.g. on king-pins the pivotal axes being situated in more than one plane transverse to the longitudinal centre line of the vehicle, e.g. all-wheel steering characterised by means varying the ratio between the steering angles of the steered wheels