Patent ID: 8020658
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: A61G,B60N,B60R,B62D,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for reducing in the direction of an axis, a horizontal wheel base of a vehicle with: wheels; a surface operation orientation ( FIG. 20A ) when supported by a vehicle support surface with said wheels; with a flying orientation ( FIG. 21E ); a passenger environment ( 198 ) with a spacial orientation; comprising at least one module ( 194 ; 195 ) displaced along said axis with regard to said passenger environment in said surface operation orientation and having a horizontal length along said axis of said vehicle; and wheel supports with an angular orientation ( 202 ) attached to said wheels, said method enabled while in a surface operating orientation by (FIG. 20 B,C): reorienting said at least one module of the vehicle by pivoting one end of said module about a lateral axis and; rotating said module until the projection of the module on the horizontal plane is shortened in the direction of the axis of operation; displacing said wheel supports towards passenger environment without reorienting said angular orientation of said wheel supports, or the surface operation orientation of the vehicle, and said method enabled while in a flying orientation by ( FIG. 21E ): changing the angular orientation of said wheel supports ( and lowering the wheels such that they are substantially spacially at a lower horizontal position with regard to said passenger environment (