A tilting, narrow-track, recumbent trike with user-controllable stability.

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Technology

The UWM Research Foundation presents a tilting, narrow-track, recumbent tricycle with variable stability combines the best of upright bikes, recumbent bikes, and recumbent trikes to eliminate the drawbacks of each and avoid the pitfalls of other existing tilting trikes.

Features/Benefits

Intellectual Property

A US provisional patent application was filed in winter of 2019.

This award-winning technology (“Innovation Award” at ASME’s HPVC hosted by Michigan State University, April 5-7, 2019 and First Place, Undergraduate at UWM’s CEAS Engineering Research Poster Competition, April 27, 2019) is part of an active and ongoing research program and is seeking partners to develop more of the final product. It is available for developmental research support/licensing under either exclusive or non-exclusive terms.

Inventors

Dr. Andrew Dressel & Anthony Pierson

Dr. Andrew Dressel teaches mechanics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the departments of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. He is director of the UWM Bicycle and Motorcycle Engineering Research Laboratory, and he has been investigating the dynamics of narrow-track vehicles since 2002.