Wheelchair rise-and-fall device

Title:

Wheelchair rise-and-fall device

Document Type and Number:

Japanese Patent JP6059901

Kind Code:

B2

Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheelchair lifting and lowering device which allows a helper to perform moving work of a wheelchair easily by using the wheelchair lifting and lowering device.SOLUTION: A wheelchair lifting and lowering device 100 includes: a traction member 2 installed at a wheelchair 10; and a driving device 4 for taking-up/sending-out the traction member 2. As an initial movement, the movement of the wheelchair 10 to the vicinity of a ground contact position 82 of a slope 8 at the time of housing the wheelchair 10 inside a car 61 via the slope 8, and/or the movement of the wheelchair 10 to a boundary position 81 between the slope 8 and the car 61 at the time of lowering are performed. In the initial movement, control is executed for gradually increasing the output of the driving device 4 from the initial value along with time.

Inventors:

Takanori Yasuo
Morita Tomoaki

Application Number:

JP2012171813A

Publication Date:

January 11, 2017

Filing Date:

August 02, 2012

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