PROTECTING STRUCTURE

• US 20100096200A1
• Filed: 02/12/2008
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JCP SRL
• Original Assignee: JCP SRL
• Inventors: Bombarda, Gian Luca
• Application Number:
  US12/526,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20100096200A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/65.31
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 17/08 Hoods protecting the rider
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 17/086 Frame mounted hoods specially adapted for motorcycles or the like

Abstract

A protecting structure to protect a user of a vehicle having two or more wheels extends substantially as an arch above and around a zone intended to receive the user. The protecting structure is connected with a chassis of the vehicle by fixing elements.

Claims

1-29. -29. (canceled)

30. Protecting structure for protecting a user of a vehicle with two or more wheels, said protecting structure extending substantially as an arch above, and around, a zone intended for receiving said user, and being provided with fixing elements for fixing said protecting structure to a chassis of said vehicle, said fixing elements being positioned near respective end portions of a framework of said structure for fixing said end portions to respective fixing portions of said chassis, wherein said structure is provided with photovoltaic cell elements for supplying electric energy to a battery of an electric motor of said vehicle positioned on an upper portion of said framework, said upper portion being shaped so as to maximize a surface of said photovoltaic cell elements available for irradiation, and with a panel that is fixable in a removable manner to said upper portion and is arranged for supporting said photovoltaic cell elements.

31. Structure according to claim 30, wherein said fixing portions are bottom portions of said chassis.

32. Structure according to claim 30, wherein said upper portion is shaped so as to favor said irradiation of said photovoltaic cell elements.

33. Structure according to claim 30, wherein said upper portion extends between a first zone and a second zone of said framework, respectively, front and rear with respect to a guiding position of said user.

34. Structure according to claim 30, wherein said upper portion comprises a substantially curved surface.

35. Structure according to claim 30, wherein said upper portion comprises a substantially flat surface.

36. Structure according to claim 30, and comprising containing elements for containing objects, said containing elements being fixed to said framework.

37. Structure according to claim 36, wherein said containing elements comprise a first container and a second container.

38. Structure according to claim 37, wherein said first container is fixed to a front portion of said framework.

39. Structure according to claim 37, wherein said first container is positioned inside said zone.

40. Structure according to claim 38, wherein said first container is interposed between a handlebar/steering wheel of said vehicle and said front portion.

41. Structure according to claim 37, wherein said second container is fixed to a rear portion of said framework.

42. Structure according to claim 37, wherein said second container is positioned outside said zone.

43. Structure according to claim 30, wherein said framework is a tubular framework.

44. Structure according to claim 43, wherein said tubular framework comprises upright elements shaped substantially as arches and crosspiece elements extending transversely to said upright elements.

45. Structure according to claim 30, and comprising lateral protecting elements positioned laterally with respect to said zone to protect said user from side impacts.

46. Structure according to claim 45, wherein said first container is fixed to a front portion of said framework and said second container is fixed to a rear portion of said framework and wherein said lateral protecting elements projects from said rear portion towards said front portion.

47. Structure according to claim 38, and comprising a windscreen positioned in said front portion.

48. Structure according to claim 41, wherein said first container is fixed to a front portion of said framework and said structure comprises lamps positioned in said front portion and in said rear portion.

49. Structure according to claim 37, and comprising a switching-on/switching-off device for switching-on/switching-off said vehicle positioned inside said zone and fixed to a support mounted on said first container.

50. Structure according to claim 49, and comprising an indicator for indicating a charge level of said battery positioned inside said zone and fixed to said support.

51. Structure according to claim 49, and comprising a speed adjusting device for adjusting a speed value of said vehicle positioned inside said zone and fixed to said support.

52. Structure according to claim 49, and comprising a travel switching device for switching a travel direction of said vehicle positioned inside said zone and fixed to said support.

53. Structure according to claim 45, and comprising an electric plug for connecting said battery to an electric energy supply network fixed to, and unwindable from, said lateral protecting elements.

54. Structure according to claim 41, and comprising a seatbelt positioned inside said zone to retain said user inside said zone and fixed to said rear portion.

55. Combination of a protecting structure as claimed in claim 30 and of a vehicle with an electric motor provided with two front steering wheels and with a rear driving wheel.