A vehicle has steering and drive wheels supported by legs articulated to the structure of the vehicle. Each leg is rotatably mounted on a main support around a transverse axis. The main support is rotatably mounted about the transverse axis on a base structure, which is connected to the structure of the vehicle. An actuator device is operatively interposed between the main support and the base support to adjust the position of the main support around the transverse axis, and consequently the height of the vehicle from the ground. A hub-bearing support carrying the wheel hub is rotatably mounted around a wheel steering axis on an auxiliary camber adjustment support. The latter is carried around a camber adjustment axis on a further auxiliary caster adjustment support. The latter is carried by the leg around a caster adjustment axis. The steering of the wheel and the camber adjustment are controlled by respective actuator devices. The caster adjustment is automatically controlled as the position of the leg changes around the transverse axis.

The disclosed invention introduces a steer-drive wheel mechanism, suitable for applications like mobile platforms, featuring two motors mounted on the platform. This design enables an unrestricted steering angle for the wheel without encountering challenges in delivering power and control signals to the motors. The two motors collaborate through two coaxially arranged axes in driving and steering the wheel, ensuring optimal power utilization and minimizing unnecessary mechanical stresses. Continuous cooperation of the two motors in driving and steering the wheel can be achieved using a motion synthesizer. This device accepts two rotational motions from the motors and, depending on the required operation of the wheel mechanism, produces appropriate rotational motions for driving and steering the wheel.

A motorized vehicle intended to transport a load including at least 3 wheels for running along the floor, capable of pivoting at least 90?, the wheels being mounted on pivoting and driving devices attached to the chassis of the vehicle, each of the pivoting and driving devices including a motor for pivoting a wheel about a vertical axis, intended to make it possible to pivot a wheel about itself. A single motor for driving in rotation the wheels intended to actuate the mechanism for driving in rotation the wheels housed in the pivoting and driving devices.

A vehicle is provided with a first transmission linked to separate first and second pivotable knuckle assemblies. The first and second pivotable knuckle assemblies can be independently steered and include axles driven by the transmission. Each axle drives a wheel of the vehicle. The vehicle includes separate third and fourth pivotable knuckle assemblies. The third and fourth pivotable knuckle assemblies can be independently steered and include axles.

A drive device for a handling trolley, including: a chassis; a wheel carrier; a drive wheel; a steering motor for rotating the wheel carrier relative to the chassis; a reduction gear connecting the steering motor to the wheel carrier, the reduction gear including a planetary gear set including an internal sun gear, at least one planet gear, and a planet carrier on which the planet gear is mounted, a ring gear surrounding the internal sun gear and the planet gear. The shaft of the steering motor is fixed relative to the internal sun gear, the wheel carrier is fixed relative to either the planet carrier or the ring gear, and the chassis is fixed relative to the other one of the two components.

A drive wheel in which the rotational axial center of a wheel along the vertical direction intersecting the axial center of the axle is arranged shifted in the horizontal direction orthogonal to the axial center of the axle with respect to the axial center of the pivot shaft. When a radius R1 of the wheel, center distance R2 between the rotational axial center and the axial center of the pivot shaft, rotational frequency n1 of the wheel, rotational frequency n2 of the pivot shaft, rotational speed V1 of the wheel, and steering rotational speed V2 of the wheel rolling on a floor surface while turning the pivot shaft satisfy V1=V2, relations of V1=2R1n1, V2=2R2n2, and n1=n2 (R2/R1) are satisfied.

A mounting system for a portal lift assembly of an off-road vehicle includes a housing having a rear wall, a front wall, and a side wall. The rear wall includes an opening to receive the end of one of the vehicle's axles, and the front wall includes an opening to allow an output shaft to extend outward from the housing. The rear wall also includes an integral mounting brackets effective to mount the box to an upper A-arm to the rear wall, and a lower A-arm to the rear wall.

A suspension of a dump truck includes: an upper arm and a lower arm each having a proximal end supported on a vehicle body frame and configured to be up-and-down pivotally movable; a tire support in a form of a casing having an upper portion rotatably connected to a distal end of the upper arm and a lower portion rotatably connected to a distal end of the lower arm; and a suspension cylinder having an upper end rotatably connected to the vehicle body frame and a lower end rotatably connected to the upper arm, in which a king pin shaft connecting a rotation center of the upper arm and the casing with a rotation center of the lower arm and the casing intersects with an axial line of the suspension cylinder in the vicinity of a connecting portion of the upper arm and the casing.

A drive unit, in particular for an industrial transport vehicle, is at least comprised of a gearbox with at least one gear stage, a drive motor and a running wheel. To minimize the costs when there are substantially greater loads on the running wheel, there are provisions in accordance with the invention for the running wheel to be directly connected to a bevel gear on the output side, which is supported by a first bearing element for accommodating the load and by a second bearing element that serves to provide stabilization and that is supported in the gearbox . The first bearing element bears all of the loads here, whereas the second bearing element with substantially smaller dimensions merely has to cushion tilting forces that arise.

The wheel side of a drive axle with wheel member steering having a drop center rim, preferably made of steel, is provided on the wheel hub and is combined with a disc brake, which is axially inwardly offset relative to the wheel plane and which preferably has compressed an actuation. The necessary space for the disc brake arrangement is guaranteed by the sufficiently low diameter of the wheel hub in the region of the brake disc and by a comparatively large axial space for the brake system, which is created by an axially narrow design of the wheel hub transmission and a by a new design of the steering knuckle bearing and of the pertaining axle guard.