Motor vehicle and method for operating a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11440601-B2
Application number	US-201816767542-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 18, 2018
Priority date	Nov 28, 2017
Publication date	Sep 13, 2022
Grant date	Sep 13, 2022

Abstract

A motor vehicle having a vehicle body with a passenger compartment, a chassis supporting the vehicle body, a vehicle axle which can be driven by a drive device, and a seat device which is arranged inside the passenger compartment and is rotatable relative to the passenger compartment about an axis of rotation. The chassis supporting the vehicle body has only one vehicle axle, about the axis of which, the vehicle body with the passenger compartment and the seat device arranged inside the passenger compartment are rotatable relative to each other.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle body with a passenger compartment;
a chassis which supports the vehicle body; and
a seat device which is disposed inside the passenger compartment;
wherein the chassis has only one vehicle axle, wherein the vehicle axle is drivable by a drive device, wherein two wheels of the chassis are coupled to the vehicle axle, and wherein the vehicle body with the passenger compartment and the seat device disposed inside the passenger compartment are rotatable relative to each other about an axis of the vehicle axle.

2. The motor vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the passenger compartment is arrangeable in two different basic positions by at least temporarily fixing the vehicle body to the vehicle axle, while the seat device is rotatably moveable relative to the passenger compartment.

3. The motor vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the passenger compartment is arrangeable in a respective basic position depending on a position of a vehicle occupant arranged on the seat device.

4. The motor vehicle according to claim 3 further comprising a control device, wherein the position of the vehicle occupant is detectable by the control device and wherein the passenger compartment is arrangeable relative to the seat device by the control device depending on a detected position.

5. The motor vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the seat device is rotatably moveable relative to the passenger compartment in a driving mode of the motor vehicle and is set in an at least substantially horizontal orientation.

6. The motor vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the two wheels of the chassis, the passenger compartment and the seat device are at least substantially coaxially displaceable relative to each other.

7. The motor vehicle according to claim 1 wherein the two wheels of the chassis, in every position relative to the vehicle body along a transverse direction of the vehicle, are arranged so as to overlap at least in regions with at least one window of the vehicle body, each of the two wheels of the chassis having an at least partially transparent rim.

8. A method for operating the motor vehicle according to claim 1 , comprising the step of rotating the vehicle body with the passenger compartment and the seat device disposed inside the passenger compartment relative to each other about the axis.

9. The method according to claim 8 further comprising the step of arranging the passenger compartment relative to the seat device depending on a position of a vehicle occupant arranged on the seat device.

Assignees

• Daimler Ag

Inventors

• Judenhahn Wolfram
• Ravestein Matthijs
• Bisinger Jochen

Classifications

• B62D51/02

  the driver standing in the vehicle · CPC title

• B62D31/003

  compact cars, e.g. city cars · CPC title

• B62D61/00 Primary

  Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels, not otherwise provided for, e.g. four wheels in diamond pattern · CPC title

• B62D37/06

  using gyroscopes · CPC title