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Title:
WHEELCHAIR TRANSFERRING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMOBILE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004223019
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a wheelchair transferring apparatus for an automobile in which a wheelchair user of normal standards (width size of 70 cm) can ride on a driver seat together with the wheelchair from a sidewalk side to the automobile with a right-hand steering wheel, parked on a road with a simple constitution and a wheelchair seat can be used as a driver seat as it is.

The wheelchair automobile transferring apparatus includes the wheelchair 10 and the automobile 20. The wheelchair 10 has a body, a seat and an elevation mechanism. The body is supported by a plurality of wheels. The body and the seat are relatively vertically movable via the elevation mechanism. The automobile 20 has a wheelchair transferring mechanism 27 for transferring the wheelchair into the automobile 20 and setting the wheelchair together to the driver seat. The wheelchair transferring mechanism 27 has a truck 30 having a fork 28, a truck moving mechanism having rails 26 for moving the truck 30 in the automobile, and a fork elevating mechanism 29 for vertically moving the fork 28 with respect to the truck.


Inventors:
OGATA HISASHI
HOSHIIDE KAORU
Application Number:
JP2003015390A
Publication Date:
August 12, 2004
Filing Date:
January 23, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
THK CO LTD
International Classes:
B60P3/00; A61G3/00; A61G5/02; (IPC1-7): A61G3/00; A61G5/02; B60P3/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takashi Kumagai
Yu Takagi