To provide an athletic wheelchair for obtaining high stability in traveling in a straight line by not only reducing the weight of a front fork but also suppressing the floating or jumping-up of a front wheel and the generation of a vibration.
The athletic wheelchair includes: a pair of main wheels 5 arranged on both sides of a cage 4 having a sitting seat 6; and a handle 9 and the front wheel 3 arranged via the front fork 8 at the front end of a wheel body frame 2 extended to the front part of the cage 4. The front fork 8 includes: a column part 21 pivotably attached to the distal end of the vehicle body frame 2; a fork part 22 extending forward from the column part 21; and a stay part 23 arranged at the distal end of the fork part 22 so as to rotatably support the front wheel 3. The front fork 8 is constituted by allowing the weight of the stay part 23 to be heavier than those of the column part 21 and the fork part 22.
MORITAKA SHINJI
WATANABE SHUSUKE
KIYOMOTO HIROSHI
HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
JP2005145192A | 2005-06-09 | |||
JP3410418B2 | 2003-05-26 |