EP1046385B1 - Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP1046385B1
EP1046385B1 EP00101070A EP00101070A EP1046385B1 EP 1046385 B1 EP1046385 B1 EP 1046385B1 EP 00101070 A EP00101070 A EP 00101070A EP 00101070 A EP00101070 A EP 00101070A EP 1046385 B1 EP1046385 B1 EP 1046385B1
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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
    • A61G5/10—Parts, details or accessories
    • A61G5/1056—Arrangements for adjusting the seat
    • A61G5/1067—Arrangements for adjusting the seat adjusting the backrest relative to the seat portion
    • 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
    • A61G5/1054—Large wheels, e.g. higher than the seat portion
    • 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
    • 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
    • A61G2203/00—General characteristics of devices
    • A61G2203/70—General characteristics of devices with special adaptations, e.g. for safety or comfort
    • A61G2203/74—General characteristics of devices with special adaptations, e.g. for safety or comfort for anti-shear when adjusting furniture
    • 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

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  • the chairs serving in general as aids for disabled or traumatised people are the subject matter of continuous studies in order to offer an ever increasing comfort.
  • the chairs may be made as stationary chairs or wheelchairs.
  • the size of the available portion of the chair seat must take into account the length of the thigh-bone of the person sitting thereon so that, when the back of the person leans against the chair back, the lower portion of the leg can bend in the proper position without the knees being pushed forward without need.
  • the chair back must be made with a sufficient extension to allow a correct support to the back of the person sitting on the chair seat, and this is to be achieved whatever the inclination one wishes to give to the chair back itself.
  • the main problem is due to the fact that the persons who are to sit on the chair may have different body structures, more particularly specific lengths of the thigh-bones and specific sizes of the hip-bones and the ischial bones.
  • An aim of the present invention is to provide a chair that is not personalised and that can be adapted to the individual cases by simple interventions, without need of modifying the structure, in such a manner therefore that the chair fits to a wide range of people, ranging from people that are in the average short to people that are in the average tall.
  • the comfort is to be maintained in respect of both the available seat extension and the chair back position, as well as in respect of the displacements of the chair back itself when passing from the upright position to an inclined position, until reaching a substantially horizontal position.
  • the chair according to the invention is so manufactured as to take into account that each person has a given length of the thigh-bone, depending on his/her body size, and to take into account that, when that person is sitting on the chair, the thigh-bone head, housed within the cotyloid cavity of the hip-bone, is at a well defined distance from the chair back and at a well defined level above the seat plane.
  • the level of the thigh-bone head is determined by the ischial structure of said person sitting on the chair.
  • US 5 297 021 discloses a wheelchair seat with a reclining backrest assembly comprising a pivotable backplate assembly, wherein the backplate pivot point can be raised by raising and tilting an adjustable bracket relative to the seat, so as to compensate for seat cushion and back cushion; this way the shear between the user's back and the backplate during reclining is reduced.
  • the backrest assembly is also provided with support rail, a carriage slidably affixed to the support rail, a backrest affixed to said carriage and means for reclining the pivotable backplate assembly support.
  • the shear between the user's back and the backrest during recline is sensed and used, by a closed-loop control, for moving the carriage so as to eliminate the shear.
  • Another aim of the present invention is providing a chair that has a relatively simple structure and construction.
  • a vehicle seat with adjustment device having the features of the preamble of claim 1 is disclosed in the document US 5 421 640.
  • the requirements of the proper seat availability and of the proper positioning of the chair back, pivoted in correspondence of the virtual axis passing through the above mentioned seats of rotation of the thigh-bone heads are met by providing on the sides of the bearing frame of said chair a set of holes for pivotally coupling the chair back, said set having an inclined arrangement such that the greater the distance of a hole from the front edge of the seat, the higher the level above the plane of said seat.
  • Each hole selected for the pivotal coupling of the chair back corresponds with a different position of the virtual axis passing through the rotation seats of the thigh-bone heads of the persons which will sit on the chair.
  • the chair back of which the supporting surface must be spaced apart from the cotyloid cavities of the hip-bone within which the thigh-bone heads of the person sitting on the chair rotate, is equipped in its lower portion with two suitable spacing arms the ends of which are associated with pivot pins for the mounting in said holes.
  • a slot can be provided allowing the chair back pivot points to be varied continuously rather than stepwise.
  • the different orientations of the small plates make the respective upper hole for the pivotal coupling of the chair back move along a path consisting of an arc of circumference located in the raising quadrant, whereby the plate corresponds with the inclined succession of holes (or the slot) mentioned above.
  • the adjustment device described above may be applied to wheelchairs or to chairs not provided with wheels.
  • spacing arms 4 are provided for the pivotal connection of chair back 5 to side elements 2 of bearing frame 1. More particularly, the free end of each spacing arm 4 is pivoted, through a suitable pivot pin (not shown), in a hole 3 selected within a set of holes 3 provided in each side element 2.
  • the set of holes 3 are substantially arranged along an inclined line so that the greater the distance of a hole from the front edge of seat 6, the higher the level above the plane of said seat.
  • the spacing arm 4 of chair back 5 is pivoted in that hole which is substantially located in correspondence with the virtual axis passing through the cotyloid cavity in the hip-bone where the thigh-bone head of the person (shown by dummy 10) sitting on the chair rotates, i.e. in correspondence with the virtual axis passing through points 12.
  • Each hole selected for the pivotal mounting of the chair back corresponds with a different position of said virtual axis (i.e. a different distance from the front edge of the seat 6 and a different level above the plane of said seat), so that the chair can be adapted to the specific body structure of the user.
  • the invention is not linked to a particular embodiment of bearing frame 1 or to a particular arrangement of wheels 7, 8, as can be appreciated in Figs. 5 to 13.
  • a slot can be provided on each side element 2 instead of the set of holes 3, thereby allowing the chair back pivot points to be varied continuously rather than stepwise
  • each plate 15 has in its upper portion a hole 16 which forms the pivot point for the end of the corresponding spacing arm 4 of chair back 5. In its lower portion, each plate 15 is pivotally mounted in 17 on the bearing frame 1. Further holes 18 in plate 15 allows varying the mounting position of the plate on the bearing frame so as to vary the plate orientation. The arrangement is such that, when plates 15 rotate onto bearing frame 1, holes 16 move along respective arcs of circumference.
  • Holes 17, 18 may be replaced by a properly shaped slot or by a combination of holes with a properly shaped slot.

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  1. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung, insbesondere für behinderte oder traumatisierte Personen gedachter Stuhl, der einen tragenden Rahmen (1, 2, 14) mit Seitenteilen (2, 4) umfasst, einen Sitz (6) und eine schwenkbar einstellbare Stuhllehne, die zwei Abstandshalter (4) aufweist, die die Schwenkachse der Stuhllehne (5) von ihrer Stützfläche auf Abstand hält, wobei die Einstellvorrichtung Verbindungselemente (3; 15, 16, 17, 18) aufweist, die jedes Seitenteil (2, 14) mit einem der beiden Abstandshalter (4) verbindet und eine Einstellung des Abstands zwischen der Stuhllehne (5) und einer Vorderkante des Sitzes (6) zulässt und gleichzeitig eine Einstellung der Höhenlage in Bezug auf den Sitz selbst, derart, dass je größer der Abstand, desto höher die Lage, um die Länge des Oberschenkelknochens einer auf dem Stuhl sitzenden Person zu berücksichtigen,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Verbindungselemente verstellbar sind, um die Schwenkachse über dem Sitz (6) zu positionieren und der virtuellen Achse (12) zu entsprechen, um die sich der Oberschenkelknochenkopf innerhalb der schalenförmigen Aushöhlung des Hüftknochens der auf dem Stuhl sitzenden Person dreht, um so der ischiadischen Struktur jener Person Rechnung zu tragen.
  2. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jene Verbindungselemente ein an jedem Seitenteil (2) des Tragrahmens (1) vorgesehenes Lochbild (3) aufweisen, das derart angeordnet ist, dass, je größer der Abstand der Lochung von der Vorderkante des Sitzes (6), desto höher die Lage der Lochung in Bezug auf den Sitz selbst ist und dass die Stuhllehne (5) Verbindungselemente (4) aufweist, die in eine ausgewählte Lochung zur schrittweisen Einstellung der Stuhllehnenposition eingekuppelt werden können.
  3. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jene Verbindungselemente einen geneigten Schlitz an jedem Seitenelement (2) des Tragrahmens (1) aufweisen und an jenem Schlitz entlang ein Kuppelelement (4) der Stuhllehne (5) zwecks einer kontinuierlichen Einstellung der Lehnenposition eingekuppelt werden kann.
  4. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jene Verbindungselemente eine Platte (15) aufweisen, die in einem unteren Bereich mit Einrichtungen (17, 18) zum schwenkbaren Kuppeln der Platte (15) mit einem Seitenteil (2) des Stuhltragrahmens (1) entsprechend verschiedener Stellungen ausgestattet ist, sowie in einem oberen Teil mit einer Lochung (16) zum Kuppeln eines Kuppelelements (4) der Stuhllehne (5) und jene Lochung (16) einen Umfangskreis beschreibt, wenn die Lage der Platte (15) verändert wird.
  5. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jene Einrichtungen zum schwenkbaren Kuppeln der Platte (15) am Tragrahmen (1) ein Lochbild (17, 18) oder mit Schlitz kombinierte Lochungen aufweisen.
  6. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dass die Verbindungselemente so ausgebildet sind, dass sie eine Einstellung der Stuhllehne (5) derart zulassen, dass die Schwenkachse der Stuhllehne (5) im Wesentlichen mit der virtuellen Achse (12) übereinstimmt, um die die Oberschenkelknochenköpfe innerhalb der schalenförmigen Aushöhlung des Hüftknochens der auf dem Stuhl sitzenden Person drehen.
  7. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 6,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Schwenkachse so positioniert werden kann, dass der Rumpf (10) der auf dem Stuhl sitzenden Person beim Übergang von einer aufrechten Lage zu einer geneigten Lage und umgekehrt zusammen mit der den Rumpf abstützenden Fläche der Stuhllehne (5) geneigt werden kann und um dieselbe Achse der Stuhllehne ohne gleitende Relativbewegung von Stuhllehne (5) und Rumpf (10) dreht.
  8. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach den Ansprüchen 1 oder 6 oder 7,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Stuhleinstellung in Übereinstimmung mit der Oberschenkellänge und der ischiadischen Struktur einer auf dem Stuhl sitzenden Person durch einfache Verstellung der Schwenkachse (12) der Stuhllehne (5) in eine andere Lochung (3, 18) oder eine andere Position innerhalb der Schlitze in den Kuppelelementen bewerkstelligt werden kann.
  9. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Stuhllehne (5) Kuppelemente (4) aufweist, die mit einer bestimmten ausgewählten Lochung zur schrittweisen Einstellung der Lage der Schwenkachse der Stuhllehne gekuppelt werden können.
  10. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach Anspruch 3,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Stuhllehne Kupplungselemente (4) aufweist, die zum Kuppeln entlang des Schlitzes zur kontinuierlichen Einstellung der Lage der Schwenkachse der Stuhllehne geeignet sind.
  11. Stuhl mit einer Einstellvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Abstandshalter (4) zum Schwenken um Lagerzapfen geeignet sind.
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