Title:
WELFARE VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003175079
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a welfare vehicle in which the user of a wheelchair easily gets on the driving seat of the vehicle and also necessity to secure a space for in-vehicle movement is eliminated.
When a driving motor 3 is operated in a state where the door 4 of the driving seat is opened, a moving mechanism moves a carriage 2 in parallel between the space 1 in the driving seat and a road surface 5 at the side of the driving seat. The user 7 sitting on the wheelchair 6 gets on the carriage 2 while facing the front of the vehicle and directly gets onto the space 1 of the driving seat from the side of the vehicle together with the wheelchair 6.
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Inventors:
ISHIKAWA TATSUYA
KUMAGAI YASUYUKI
OGAWA HISASHI
KUMAGAI YASUYUKI
OGAWA HISASHI
Application Number:
JP2002160529A
Publication Date:
June 24, 2003
Filing Date:
May 31, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOYOTA IND CORP
International Classes:
B60R9/042; A61G3/00; (IPC1-7): A61G3/00; B60R9/042
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Mitsuteru Soga (7 outside)