Patent ID: 8162328

Claim:
A vehicle having a pair of wheels and an occupant portion in which an occupant rides, the vehicle comprising: a link mechanism for connecting the pair of wheels; and a link driving device for bending and stretching the link mechanism by applying a driving force to the link mechanism, wherein the vehicle, with the driving force of the link driving device, pivots the link mechanism to give different camber angles to the pair of wheels to incline the wheels in the same direction such that a tread width of the wheels is increased and also to incline the occupant portion in the same direction as the wheels toward inside of cornering, during cornering, wherein the link mechanism comprises a pair of wheel supporting bodies for respectively supporting, via shafts, each of the pair of wheels and comprises also a first link and a second link that are each supported at opposing ends by the pair of wheel supporting bodies via the shafts; wherein the link driving device comprises a telescopic actuator, and connects at least one end of the actuator to one of the shafts, the first link, or the second link of the link mechanism, or to the wheel supporting body, and wherein a center distance between the supporting shafts via which the pair of wheel supporting bodies respectively support opposing ends of the first link is a distance of smaller dimension than the center distance between the supporting shafts via which the pair of wheel supporting bodies respectively support opposing ends of the second link.