Patent ID: 11970231
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle, comprising:
a first wheel;
a second wheel; and
a steering system configured to concurrently cause, at a time at which the vehicle is in a park mode:
a steering angle of the first wheel to be at a first angle; and
a steering angle of the second wheel to be at a second angle,

wherein:
the steering system comprises:
a first actuator configured to cause the first wheel to be at the first angle, and
a second actuator configured to cause the second wheel to be at the second angle,

a first difference angle, being a difference of the first angle subtracted from the second angle, is greater than an angle determined to comply with Ackermann steering geometry, and
either both the first wheel and the second wheel are front wheels or both the first wheel and the second wheel are rear wheels.