Personal Mobility Vehicles and Methods

Abstract

A toy vehicle is disclosed. The toy vehicle includes a chassis, a ground-contacting module and a motorized drive arrangement. The ground-contacting module is coupled to the chassis and has two clusters of wheels. The motorized drive arrangement is coupled to the ground-contacting module. The drive arrangement, ground-contacting module amid chassis constituting a system. The motorized drive arrangement causing, when powered, automatically balanced operation of the system in all operating position that is unstable with respect to tipping in at least a fore-aft plane when the motorized drive arrangement is not powered.

1 . A toy vehicle comprising: 
 a. a chassis,    b. a ground-contacting module coupled to the chassis, the ground-contacting module having two clusters of wheels; aid    c. a motorized drive arrangement, coupled to the ground-contacting module, the drive arrangement, ground-contacting module and chassis constituting a system, the motorized drive arrangement causing, when powered, automatically balanced operation of the system in an operating position that is unstable with respect to tipping ill at least a fore-aft plane when the motorized drive arrangement is not powered.