초록 ▼

An outrigger to prevent a moving vehicle from overturning includes an arm that normally stays in a retracted, stored position that allows the vehicle freedom to travel, but then automatically extends to brace the vehicle in response to tilting to a predetermined limit. The arm has a pivotal or linea

An outrigger to prevent a moving vehicle from overturning includes an arm that normally stays in a retracted, stored position that allows the vehicle freedom to travel, but then automatically extends to brace the vehicle in response to tilting to a predetermined limit. The arm has a pivotal or linear motion driven by virtue of its own weight or by spring force. A releasable latch holding the arm in the stored position automatically releases the arm in response to a mechanical or electrical tilt sensor that detects that the vehicle has tilted to the limit.

대표청구항 ▼

1. An outrigger for a vehicle adapted to travel over a surface, comprising: a sensor having a mechanical trigger that produces a reaction in response to the vehicle tilting beyond a predetermined limit; and an engaging member adapted to be attached to the vehicle and having a distal end being movea

1. An outrigger for a vehicle adapted to travel over a surface, comprising: a sensor having a mechanical trigger that produces a reaction in response to the vehicle tilting beyond a predetermined limit; and an engaging member adapted to be attached to the vehicle and having a distal end being moveable from a stored position to a deployed position in response to the reaction, wherein the distal end is adapted to engage the surface in the deployed position and is spaced from the surface in the stored position.