Trike vehicle with selectivity pivotable operator cabin
The present invention is a hybrid crossover between an automobile and a motorcycle that is able to take tight corners almost like a motorcycle but is driven and handled like an automobile by optionally leaning into turns with one wheel in the front and two wheels in the rear of the vehicle and passenger compartment having an accelerator and brake pedals and steered with a steering wheel and gears that can be selected via a toggle switch gear selector located in the vicinity of the steering or by a floor and/or dash mounted unit.
1. A three-wheeled vehicle comprising:
a) a rear chassis portion having a frame incorporating a coupling member and wheels;
b) a front chassis portion having a frame incorporating a coupling member and a steerable front wheel;
c) the rear chassis portion and the front chassis portion when conjoined by the latchable front and rear coupling members enables the front chassis portion to tilt relative to the rear chassis portion by virtue of the conjoined couplings and the front wheel;
d) the rear chassis portion and the front chassis portion comprising tracks and rollers releasably fixed to a respective front and rear chassis portion forming guideways for constraining tilt movement to a predetermined angular range.
2. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 1 further comprising a roll cage attached to the frame of the front chassis portion.
3. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 1 , wherein angular tilting is preferably about a 45°±15° axis of a sun mounted unit of the drive spindle of the front chassis.
4. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 3 , further comprising a center sun unit housing a spindle and a directional center assembly unit securing unit.
5. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 3 , further comprising springs and dampeners holding the front chassis in an at rest steady state coplanar with the rear chassis with the springs and dampeners returning the front chassis to a rear chassis coplanar steady state after directional tilting.
6. The three-wheeled vehicle of claim 1 further consisting
a force control height management system comprising a single, dual, or multiple shock unit(s), a control bar(s) and a torsion bar(s) thereby controlling ride height and road feel.
7. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 6 , where the steerable wheel is in fluid communication with a plurality of rams driving a pivot arm in a controlled left or right tilt dependent on angular rotation of the steering wheel.
8. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 6 , further comprising hydraulic steering column with servos and at least one hydraulic steering pump or hydraulic pump at the engine or in the engine bay area.
9. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 6 , where the hydraulic tilt system is controlled by pressure supply by steering system turning.
10. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 6 , further incorporating ECU, Actuators, Sensors, Pulse width units.
11. The three-wheeled vehicle of claim 1 wherein
the pair of frames further provides mateable locking members that can be selectively actuated to disable the vehicle front chassis from tilting.
12. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 11 further providing a locked at rest state under predetermined vehicle conditions including, vehicle off, parked or low speed.
13. The three wheeled vehicle of claim 11 further providing another pair of locking members that are manually engage by applying a force to either chassis thereby actuating the additional pair of locking members.