Title:
WHEELCHAIR WITH FRONT WHEEL ARRANGED AT CENTER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2020058749
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a walking assistance tool for enabling a healthy person and an aged person having no confidence in walking by own ability to safely move indoors and to easily perform traveling by own leg force not to cause further decrease of muscle strength.SOLUTION: A wheelchair for enabling getting-on from a front side includes: rear wheels 1 being a pair of wheels arranged on the right side and the left side of a rear part of a wheelchair body; a front wheel 3 arranged in a lower part at the front center of a sitting seat 8; and a front wheel cover 6. The wheelchair has a structure including foot supports that can be opened/closed with a frame 7 in the upper part of the front wheel as a shaft and can be stored under the sitting seat. Thus, right and left corners in a front part of the sitting seat 8 can be eliminated, so that a user can perform traveling by opening legs and can stand up while legs are opened. The frame 7 in the upper part of the front wheel supports the front center of the sitting seat 8, so as to reduce the risk of forward falling of the wheelchair when a user stands up.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
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Inventors:
KADOKURA ASAMI
Application Number:
JP2018200406A
Publication Date:
April 16, 2020
Filing Date:
October 09, 2018
Export Citation:
Assignee:
KADOKURA ASAMI
International Classes:
A61G5/02; A61G5/10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Ginger justice