Patent ID: 11945535
Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 2:
3. A leaning vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body frame that is configured to lean in a leaning-vehicle-leftward direction when the leaning vehicle is turning left and to lean in a leaning-vehicle-rightward direction when the leaning vehicle is turning right;
at least one steerable wheel supported by the vehicle frame body;
a steering mechanism configured to steer the at least one steerable wheel in accordance with manipulation of a rider of the leaning vehicle; and
a posture control actuator device, including
a posture control actuator configured to output posture control power to control posture of the vehicle body frame, and
an angular rate sensor configured to detect an angular rate that is an amount of change per unit time of a rotation angle of the vehicle body frame around a rotation axis thereof, the rotation angle changing as the vehicle body frame is rotating around the rotation axis, wherein
the posture control actuator device is supported by the vehicle body frame in such a manner as to be attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body frame,
the posture control actuator and the angular rate sensor are incorporated in such a manner as not to be displaceable relative to each other, and
the angular rate sensor and the posture control actuator are integrated into the posture control actuator device, and the posture control actuator device is attached to the vehicle body frame.