Remote mover

• US 20080149406A1
• Filed: 12/22/2006
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ida Antoinette Williams
• Original Assignee: Ida Antoinette Williams
• Inventors: Williams, Ida Antoinette
• Application Number:
  US11/643,989
• Publication Number:
  US 20080149406A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/65.1
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 5/0076 Remotely controlled
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0033 by having the operator tracking the vehicle either by direct line of sight or via one or more cameras located remotely from the vehicle

Abstract

A remote controlled self-propelled cart allows a physically compromised user desired movement of equipments and appliances by visual orientation without physical effort. The cart has a self-contained power supply with wheels driven by motors allowing small appliances to be moved over a horizontal surface such as the floor of a room for user accessibility and to storage after use.

Claims

1. A remotely controlled moveable cart apparatus comprising means to hold equipment and appliances allowing movement in the horizontal plane by 2-axis coordinate direction co-planar with said horizontal direction and by rotation of said cart by electrical operation of wheels on said cart by improvement comprising;

a. motor driven wheels mounted on said cart with self-contained electrical power means allowing rotation of said wheels as desired visually by operator, including

b. RF or IR remote control means for activating said motors, wherein

c. said remote control is by transmission of IR or RF digital signaling by accord with joystick positioning commands transmitted to receiver on said cart, whereby

d. motors operated by electrical simulation of said transmission commands cooperatively energize said wheels, thereby

allowing self-contained power for controlled cart movement of equipments and appliances without the requirement of direct human effort allowing physically incapacitated operators easy movement control of equipments and appliances.

2. A remote controlled apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein said motor means are direct current servo motors and wherein movement is in horizontal plane along X- and Y-direction or combination thereof as synchronously-controlled by sensing positioning of joystick or button means.

3. The remotely-controlled cart moving means of claim 1 wherein the signal sensing means comprises a transmitter operating by binary digital signaling to receiver mounted on said cart controllably operating wheels affixed to said cart as powered by self-contained batteries, said electrical signals by coordinated action operating a servo-motor operating system and thereby achieving smooth operation movement of said wheels for positioning control of said cart in synchronism with operator controlled movement of said joystick.

4. A defined in claim 1 said cart is adapted to move in a horizontal direction in response to signals to motors slaved to move in combined X- and Y-direction by correspondence with joystick positioning of remote signal transmission as visually directed by operator.

5. A remotely operated cart as defined in claim 1 wherein the motor control system of said operating systems allows wheel operating speed and direction to be determined, at least in part, by separate motor control systems.