US 11,813,211 B2
Small electric vehicle
Gopinath Raja, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/580,211.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-012216 (JP), filed on Jan. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0233376 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. A61G 5/04 (2013.01); A61G 5/10 (2006.01); A61G 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 5/1032 (2013.01) [A61G 5/04 (2013.01); A61G 5/0825 (2016.11); A61G 2203/14 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A small electric vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body comprising a forward and backward direction, and a width direction;
left and right driving wheels provided apart in the width direction of the vehicle body;
left and right motors connected so as to respectively transmit power to the left and right driving wheels;
an operation unit comprising an operation piece with a joystick-type; and
a control unit controlling the left and right motors according to an amount of operation on the operation piece,
wherein the control unit is configured to execute deceleration and stop control that decelerates with a first target deceleration to stop when the operation piece is returned to the neutral position during travel, and execute rapid stop control that decelerates with a second target deceleration greater than the first target deceleration to stop irrespective of an amount of operation in left and right directions when the operation piece is tilted backward during forward travel at a speed equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.