EP0255804B1 - Balancespezifisch einstellbarer Leichtgewichtsrollstuhl - Google Patents

Balancespezifisch einstellbarer Leichtgewichtsrollstuhl Download PDF

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EP0255804B1
EP0255804B1 EP87810441A EP87810441A EP0255804B1 EP 0255804 B1 EP0255804 B1 EP 0255804B1 EP 87810441 A EP87810441 A EP 87810441A EP 87810441 A EP87810441 A EP 87810441A EP 0255804 B1 EP0255804 B1 EP 0255804B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G5/00—Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G5/00—Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
    • A61G5/10—Parts, details or accessories
    • A61G5/1097—Camber- or toe-adjusting means for the drive wheels
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G5/00—Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
    • A61G5/10—Parts, details or accessories
    • A61G5/12—Rests specially adapted therefor, e.g. for the head or the feet
    • A61G5/128—Rests specially adapted therefor, e.g. for the head or the feet for feet
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G5/00—Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
    • A61G5/10—Parts, details or accessories
    • A61G5/1056—Arrangements for adjusting the seat
    • A61G5/1059—Arrangements for adjusting the seat adjusting the height of the seat
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G5/00—Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
    • A61G5/10—Parts, details or accessories
    • A61G5/1056—Arrangements for adjusting the seat
    • A61G5/1075—Arrangements for adjusting the seat tilting the whole seat backwards
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S297/00—Chairs and seats
    • Y10S297/04—Wheelchair

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  • the invention relates to a wheelchair according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a wheelchair is known from US Pat. No. 4,582,570, which, however, cannot be adjusted in a balance-specific manner very significant requirements.
  • the turning speed has become of crucial importance for the so-called sports chairs - especially the basketball wheelchairs.
  • the state of the art today also includes the various adjustment options for the seat angle, the backrest angle with respect to the seat surface, and the adjustment options for the camber of the rear wheels in order to shift the center of gravity with respect to the height.
  • the prior art essentially uses two adjustment criteria to adjust the center of gravity with regard to the seat surface (see, for example, SPORTS AND SPOKES, The Magazine for Wheel Chair Sports and Adventure, March / April 1986, Vol. 11, No.6, "Adjustability in Light Weight Wheel Chairs ").
  • an adjustment option of the two large rear drive wheels of a wheelchair is used.
  • These two drive wheels can usually be adjusted in and against the direction of movement via their axles in cross-country guides by so-called axle support plates, so that the wheels themselves can be adjusted in the direction of the smaller front wheels or away from them.
  • positioning angles are mainly used in the prior art, by means of which the backrest is adjusted depending on the use and then the adjustment via this positioning angle is firmly blocked.
  • the two front wheels are not directly connected to the frame tube of the seat surface in the prior art, but they are hinged to this frame in such a way that they act on support tubes which run parallel to the seat frame tube. With regard to these, they can then be adjusted again, as is shown, for example, on page 15 of the publication specified above.
  • the rigid backrest fixation in a selected position results in a maximum of stability, but is very often not necessary at all and is perceived as disadvantageous with regard to rapid adjustment.
  • the transportability of a wheelchair with a fixed (rigidly attached) backrest is considerably more difficult.
  • the modularly constructed and articulated suspension of the two front wheels in wheelchair systems according to the prior art has the disadvantage that it is not inspection-friendly (use of smaller or larger front wheels often also requires the entire suspension to be replaced), and millimeter-precise adjustment does not appear to be possible.
  • both the front and the rear wheels of a wheelchair, or their axes have the disadvantage in principle that they can only be changed by so-called static changes to the respective settings and that in addition to the considerable effort to drive is an absolutely millimeter-precise adjustment of the individual settings to be coordinated is not possible.
  • the telescopic cooperation of the two parts of the frame tubes - to extend or shorten the seat surface in connection with the backrest as needed and on the other hand to shift the center of gravity of the body to the drive wheels - has a very quickly attainable serious influence on the balance point of the wheelchair and the maneuverability and easy turning of the lightweight wheelchair according to the invention represents a balance regulation which eliminates the usual forward or backward movement of the rear wheels on the frame - as is customary in the prior art.
  • steplessly adjustable front wheel suspension on the front frame tube allows the level difference of the different front wheel sizes to be recorded and precisely adjusted and, on the other hand, the front frame body can be continuously lowered or raised.
  • millimeter-precise adjustment for the frame, floor seat height, front wheel dimensions and front wheel track can be achieved on one and the same component (frame tube).
  • the lightweight wheelchair 1 shown in Figures 1 to 6 consists in a conventional manner of a support frame 2 and two rear wheels 7 and 8 and two front wheels 9 and 10. Between the two frame tubes 3 and 4, a covering 5A of the seat 5 is drawn on the one hand and on the other a covering 22A of a leg rest 22 is provided.
  • the connection of the two frame tubes 3 and 4 is represented by the footrest 19.
  • the two tubes 20 are connected to the frame tubes 3 and 4 and provided with a backrest covering 6A of the backrest 6.
  • the two rear wheels 7 and 8 are connected to one another via a rigid rear wheel axle 14.
  • the frame tubes 3 and 4 are each supported on the rear wheel axle via a support element 17 and a holding device 18.
  • the rear wheel axle 14 contains a spirit level 16A, via which, depending on the setting of the two front wheels 9 and 10, the axle in the clamping device 18 is rotated until the spirit level is at zero, i.e. until the two rear wheels are exactly parallel with respect to the direction of movement and therefore no so-called 'digging of the chair', i.e. unusually strong increase in frictional resistance.
  • Fig. 2 shows an embodiment of a rear wheel axle 14 without the possibility of camber adjustment of the two rear wheels 7 and 8, and thus in this embodiment there is also no water level, by means of which the axle position must be able to be centered exactly.
  • Fig. 3 shows exactly the example with cambered rear wheels.
  • angularly drilled wheel axle receiving devices 15 are provided, which in turn means that different wheel axles can be used in such a lightweight wheelchair for each different camber adjustment and, as said, if the camber-adjustable wheel bearing bores 15 have a spirit level 16A around the centering ensure.
  • the lightweight wheelchair with the completely telescopically retracted frame tube sections 3A and 3B (Fig. 4), i.e. In this position, the sitting position is shifted farthest forward. Otherwise, these frame tube parts 3A and 3B are connected to the rear axle 14 via a support element 17 and a corresponding holding device 18.
  • the holding device 18 is designed as a clamping device, for example made of plastic or metal, and the support element 17 is infinitely adjustable in this holding device 18, so that the actual seat height, which is represented by the frame tube sections 3A and 3B, can be set as desired.
  • 4 shows a continuously adjustable suspension 11 for the two front wheels 9 and 10.
  • This stepless suspension 11 consists of two parts, namely a clamping tab 12 and a torsionally elastic wheel bearing 13 in which one or the other of the two front wheels 9 and 10 is guided. 4 also shows the locking joint 23, which represents the connection point between the second part of the telescopic frame tube 3 and the spars 20. The entire backrest can be brought into positions 20 'and 20 "via spars 20 via this latching joint 23.
  • FIG. 5 shows the counterpart of FIG. 4, namely a fully extended telescopic second section of the frame tube 3B and a light-weight wheelchair which has been lowered in height with respect to FIG. 4.
  • the support element 17 in the holding device 18 is very strong moved below and the same also applies to the clamping tab 12.
  • the frame piece 3A and thus the footrest 19 is lowered to the maximum to the floor to be driven on.
  • the rear wheel 7 is drawn in an extended and in a dashed position.
  • the extended position shows the principle of the pre-sketched structure.
  • the holding device 18 only has to be released on the support element 17 and with respect to the holder relative to the axle 14, and can simply be rotated through 180 ° , which then leads to a new position of the rear wheel axle 14, and thus enabling a completely new focus course.
  • FIG. 6 shows a further possibility of adjusting the center of gravity, in which the seat 5A between the two frame tubes 3 and 4 is inclined slightly to the rear. This is achieved by lowering the support element 17 in the holding device 18 as far as possible, so that the disproportionate increase in the front seat surface can be achieved via the clamping tab 12 of the front wheel 9.

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