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Title:
WHEELCHAIR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH11363
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To enable the body of a wheelchair to go straight immediately when the wheelchair comes to a road surface that slopes to the right or left and to enable the wheelchair to be controlled by use of one controller.

This wheelchair has large wheels 11 freely rotationally attached on their axes to a pair of right and left back pipes 4, and movable arms provided with the yoke parts 17 of caster wheels 16 at their respective lower ends are attached on their axes to a pair of right and left front pipes 1 in such a way as to be inclined freely in the horizontal direction to the advancing direction of the large wheels 11. The movable arms are provided with respective tilting mechanisms 22, one controller 25 for tilting the movable arms through a predetermined angle is provided, a control wire is provided between the controller 25 and each tilting mechanism, and the tilting mechanisms are operated by the towing force of the control wire.


Inventors:
MIMURA YASUO
Application Number:
JP16666797A
Publication Date:
January 06, 1999
Filing Date:
June 10, 1997
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MARUISHI CYCLE IND
International Classes:
A61G5/02; A61G5/10; A61G7/05; B60B33/00; B62D9/04; A61G1/02; (IPC1-7): A61G5/02; A61G5/02



 
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