JP2000116713A - Wheelchair fixing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheelchair fixing device for a vehicle, which is highly usable by simplifying the fixing operation of the wheelchair. SOLUTION: Wheel guides 1 guiding moving of front wheels 51 of the wheel chair 50 and regulating its horizontal moving and a regulating board 21 which is stand-rotated obliquely backward to be in contact with the rear side of a rear wheel 52 and can be held at a standing position by a rope member 24 are provided on a floor surface Y in a cabin. In addition, a right and left pair of belt guides 35 are arranged on the floor surface in front of the board 21. Then, a fixing belt 31 is put through both of the guides 35 in the state of putting across, hooks 33 provided on both of the right/left ends of the belt 31 are engaged with the frame 50a of the wheelchair 50 and then, the belt 31 is fastened to connect a buckle 34. Thus, the drawing force of the belt 31 is operated obliquely downward to fix the wheelchair 50.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wheelchair fixing device used for fixing, for example, a wheelchair in a vehicle to a floor, and more particularly to a wheelchair fixing device of a type which uses a belt to fix.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a wheelchair fixing device for fixing a wheelchair to a floor in a vehicle using a belt is shown in FIG. The illustrated wheelchair fixing device includes two sets of belts 101 on the front and rear sides of a single wheelchair 105 on the floor in the vehicle, and four sets of belts 101 for convenience. Each set of belts 101 has an anchor 10 fixed to the floor side.
A belt 101a with hooks 103 and a belt 101b with hooks 103 hooked on the wheelchair 105 side.
01a and 101b can be attached / detached (contacted / separated) by a buckle 104.

[0003]

In the case of the wheelchair fixing device having the above structure, the belt 103a with the anchor 102 and the belt 101b for hooking the hook 103 on the wheelchair 105 are provided.
The fixing operation such as connecting and tightening must be repeated at four places before and after, and it is necessary to perform the fixing operation by turning around the front or side of the wheelchair 105. There is a problem in that it is bad.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a highly usable wheelchair fixing device capable of easily performing a wheelchair fixing operation. Is to do.

[0005]

To achieve the above object, the present invention is configured as follows. That is, the invention of claim 1 is a wheelchair fixing device, wherein a wheel guide that guides forward or backward movement of one of a front wheel and a rear wheel of a wheelchair and regulates lateral movement, and a wheel guide that is applied to the other wheel. A wheel regulating member that contacts and regulates the movement thereof; a left and right belt guide provided between the wheel guide and the wheel regulating member; A fixed belt provided with a hook that can be hooked on the wheelchair, and a belt tensioner that holds the fixed belt tensioned between the left and right belt guides in a state where the hook is hooked on the wheelchair. And the fixing belt is set such that a tensile force at the time of tension acts on the other wheel toward the wheel regulating member and toward the floor.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the wheelchair is fixed to the floor, first, one of the front wheel and the rear wheel is guided to the wheel guide, The other wheel is brought into contact with the wheel regulating member. Thereafter, the left and right hooks at both ends of the belt are hooked to predetermined portions of the wheelchair, and the belt is then held in a tensioned state by belt tensioning means to fix the wheelchair to the floor. That is, according to the present invention, the wheelchair can be fixed by performing the belt fastening operation on one set of belts, so that the operation is easy and the usability is high. The wheelchair fixed to the floor has a wheel guide that prevents one of the wheels from oscillating, and a fixed belt and a wheel regulating member stops movement in the front-rear and up-down directions. Left and right movement is stopped by force.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the wheelchair fixing device according to the first aspect, the belt tensioning means is constituted by a buckle provided substantially at the center of the fixing belt.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, a belt tensioning means having a simple configuration can be provided.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the wheelchair fixing device according to the first aspect, the belt tensioning means is connected in a substantially T-shape to a substantially central portion of the fixed belt between the left and right belt guides. It comprises a belt and a winding device for applying a tension to the fixed belt by winding the tension belt. Therefore, according to the third aspect of the present invention, since the fixing belt can be tightened by operating the winding device to wind up the tension belt, it is possible to easily cope with different types of wheelchairs.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the wheelchair fixing device according to any one of the first to third aspects, the wheel restricting member is moved rearward by contacting a wheel-allowing position allowing a wheelchair to enter and a rear side of the wheel. To be displaceable to a drop-off restriction position for restricting the vehicle.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when the wheelchair is applied to a vehicle of a type in which the wheelchair is ridden from the rear of the vehicle body, the wheelchair is displaced to the ride allowable position. After the passenger enters the vehicle in the forward direction and guides the front wheels to the wheel guides, the wheel restricting member is displaced to the drop-off restricting position and abuts the rear side of the rear wheels. In this state, the wheelchair can be fixed to the floor in the vehicle by performing the fixing operation using the fixing belt, as in the case of the first aspect of the present invention.
That is, according to the invention of claim 4, the wheelchair can be fixed by performing the displacement of the wheel regulating member and the fixing operation by the fixing belt at the position where the wheelchair has entered.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a use form of the wheelchair fixing device according to the present embodiment. 2 to 4 are views showing the components of the fixing device, FIG. 2 shows a wheel guide, FIG. 3 shows a wheel regulating plate, and FIG. 4 shows a fixing belt.
FIG. 5 is a side view illustrating a fixed state of the wheelchair.

The wheelchair fixing device according to the present embodiment is applied to a vehicle of a type in which a wheelchair gets on and off from a rear part of a vehicle body. As shown in FIG. 1, the wheelchair fixing device includes a wheelchair 50.
Left and right wheel guides 11 for guiding the front wheels 51 to restrict lateral movement, a wheel regulating plate 21 as a wheel regulating member for regulating the movement of the rear wheel 52 of the wheelchair 50, and a fixed belt 31 for binding the wheelchair 50. It is composed of

Hereinafter, each component will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, the left and right wheel guides 11 are each configured by a guide bar 12 formed of two round bars extending in the front-rear direction and arranged opposite to each other with an interval allowing the front wheels 51 to pass therethrough. . The two guide bars 12 are fixed to a predetermined height position on the floor surface Y by the support legs 12a, and regulate the lateral movement of the front wheel 51 that has entered between the guide bars 12. The front and rear end portions of the guide bar 12 are expanded in a C-shape to guide the front wheel 51 into the space between the bars, thereby forming a wheel guiding portion 12b.

The wheel restricting plate 21, which abuts on the rear side of the rear wheel 52 and restricts its movement, is formed in a rectangular shape having a width exceeding the tread of the left and right rear wheels 52, as shown in FIG. The base plate 22 fixed on the floor Y is attached to the rear edge of the base plate 22 via a hinge 23 so that the base plate 22 can be turned upside down (rotatable in the front-rear direction). It is kept in the state. The base plate 22 includes a chain or a rope that constitutes a stopper for holding the wheel regulating plate 21 in an upright state.
A cord member 24 is provided. One end of the cable member 24 is attached to an anchor 25 provided on the base plate 22, and a ring 26 provided at the tip is hooked on a hook 27 provided on the left and right end portions of the wheel control plate 21 to slightly move the wheel control plate 21. It is set so as to be held in a standing position inclined backward. The reason why the wheel regulating plate 21 is inclined slightly backward is that the pulling force of the rope member 24 and the wheel regulating plate 21
In order to maintain a stable position at a predetermined standing position by balancing with the own weight of the rear wheel 52,
This is in order to make contact with the flat part.

Next, the fixed belt 31 will be described with reference to FIG. The fixed belt 31 is a flexible belt body 3.
2, a hook 33 is provided at each end of the belt body 32 as a hook that can be hooked to the wheelchair 50, and a buckle 34 for removing and attaching the belt is provided at a central portion as belt tensioning means. . That is, the fixed belt 31 has a hook 33 at an end and is attached / detached (contacted / separated) by the buckle 34
It is made up of two left and right belt bodies 32 that are enabled.

The buckle 34 includes a tongue plate 34b as an insertion member and a buckle body 34a as a receiving member having a lock mechanism and a release button. The belt length on the tongue plate 34b side is configured to be adjustable. Then, the base plate 22
A pair of left and right belt guides 35 are provided on the upper surface of the belt guide 35 for guiding the belt body 32 in a crosswise manner in the left-right direction when the wheelchair 50 is fixed to the floor surface Y. Is set between the wheel regulating plate 21 and the rear wheel 52, preferably at a position slightly behind the center of the rear wheel 52.

The wheelchair fixing device according to the present embodiment is configured as described above, and its use will be described below. The wheel control plate 21 is normally laid down on the floor surface Y. Therefore, in this state, the wheelchair 50 is driven into the vehicle from the rear of the vehicle, and the left and right front wheels 51 are
And the rear wheel 52 passes over the upper surface of the wheel regulating plate 21 and is positioned on the base plate 22. Subsequently, the wheel regulating plate 21 is rotated forward to stand up and abut on the rear wheel 52, and the ring 26 of the rope member 24 is hooked on the hook 27 of the wheel regulating plate 21 to be held at the standing position. Thereafter, the left and right hooks 33 of the belt main body 32 are hooked on the frame of the wheelchair 50, preferably a frame 50a slightly below the rotation center axis 52a of the rear wheel 52, as shown in FIG. The left and right belt bodies 32 are pulled and connected by a buckle 34 between them. As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the pulling force of the belt acts obliquely rearward and downward of the rear wheel 52.

Thus, by performing the tightening operation with the fixing belt 31, the wheelchair 5 as shown in FIG.
0 is fixed on the floor Y in the vehicle, and the wheelchair 50 in the fixed state is
1 is stopped, the fixed belt 31 and the wheel restricting plate 21 stop the rear wheel 52 from moving back and forth and up and down, and the right and left belt bodies 32 stop the left and right movement. Can be As mentioned above,
In the present embodiment, after the wheelchair 50 is driven into the vehicle from the rear of the vehicle body, the wheelchair 50 is fixed by performing the standing operation of the wheel regulating plate 21 and the belt tightening operation of one set of fixing belts 31 at that position. be able to. Also, there is no need to turn in front of the wheelchair 50, and
Fixed operation can be performed behind 0. For this reason, compared with the conventional wheelchair fixing device which required four sets of belt fastening operations, the wheelchair fixing operation can be performed extremely easily, and a highly usable wheelchair fixing device can be provided. .

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. This embodiment uses a wheelchair 5
This is a modified example of the belt tensioning means for tightening the fixing belt 31 to fix 0. That is, in the above-described embodiment, when the left and right belt bodies 32 are connected by the buckle 34, the left and right belt bodies 32 are manually pulled and tensioned, but in this embodiment, The buckle 34 is omitted from the single belt main body 32, and a tension belt 37 is connected to a substantially central portion of the belt main body 32 through a square ring 36 in a T-shape. Then, the tensioning belt 37 is passed through a belt guide 38 formed of a square ring provided on the floor Y in front of the left and right belt guides 35, that is, folded back, and then guided backward.
The end is connected to a winding tool 39 provided on the base plate 22. As shown in a simplified manner, the winding device 39 includes a winding drum 39a to which a belt end is connected, and an arm 3 that can rotate the winding drum 39a in the winding direction.
9b, a lock mechanism (not shown) for fixing the take-up drum 39a at the take-up position, a disengaging means therefor, and the like. The other configuration is the same as that of the above-described embodiment.

Therefore, in the embodiment configured as described above, as shown in FIG. 6, similarly to the above-described embodiment, first, after the wheelchair 50 is put in the vehicle, the wheel regulating plate 21 is moved. It is raised and held at the upright position by the cable member 24. Subsequently, the hooks 33 on the left and right sides of the fixed belt 31 are respectively hooked on the frame 50a, and the arm 39b of the winding tool 39 is repeatedly rotated to rotate the winding drum 39a to thereby tighten the tension belt 37. , The belt body 32 is tensioned. This allows
The central part of the belt main body 32 is tightened by pulling the central part of the belt main body 32 backward in a character shape between the left and right belt guides 35. Thus, the movement of the wheelchair 50 in the front-rear and up-down directions is stopped by the belt body 32 and the wheel regulating plate 21, and the movement in the left-right direction is stopped by the left and right hooks 33. That is, in the case of the other embodiments, the wheelchair 50 can be fixed to the floor surface by performing the belt tightening operation for one set, similarly to the above-described embodiment. Since it is a type of tightening by winding by 39, even if the wheelchairs of different types, that is, the height from the floor surface to the hooking position of the hook 33 are different, it can be easily handled.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the embodiment, and can be appropriately changed without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, the fixed belt 31 is not limited to the illustrated flat belt, but may be a rod-shaped belt. Also,
The structure in which the movement of the front wheel 52 is stopped by the fixed belt 31 and the wheel control plate 21 and the lateral movement of the rear wheel 52 is stopped by the wheel guide 11, that is, the wheel control plate 21 is provided on the front side in the entering direction of the wheelchair 50, The configuration in which the wheel guides 11 are arranged can be changed. Furthermore, wheel guide 1
A stopper for restricting the front wheel from moving forward may be additionally provided at the front end of the vehicle. Further, the base plate 22 is omitted, and the wheel regulating plate 21, the belt guide 35, or the rope member 24 is omitted.
Can be directly attached to the floor surface Y. The wheel control plate 21 is formed by blocks corresponding to each of the left and right rear wheels 52 instead of being turned upside down by rotation, and is mounted so as to be slidable in the left-right direction (vehicle width direction) so that the wheelchair 50 can enter. Can be displaced between a boarding allowance position that allows the vehicle and a drop-off regulation position that abuts on the rear side of the rear wheel 52 and regulates the rearward movement, and in some cases, has a fixed structure. No problem. In the present embodiment, the wheelchair 50
Although the description has been given of the case where the user gets on and off the vehicle, the direction of getting on and off the vehicle is not limited to this.

[0022]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
Since the wheelchair can be fixed by performing the belt tightening operation on one set of belts, a highly usable wheelchair fixing device in which the wheelchair fixing operation is simpler than in the related art can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a use form of a wheelchair fixing device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a view showing a wheel guide of a wheelchair fixing device;
(A) is a front view, and (B) is a plan view.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a wheel regulating plate of the wheelchair fixing device.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a fixing belt of the wheelchair fixing device.

FIG. 5 is a side view illustrating a fixed state of a wheelchair.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing another embodiment, showing a non-use state.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing another embodiment, showing a state of use.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a conventional wheelchair fixing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Wheel guide 21 ... Wheel control plate 22 ... Base plate 24 ... Cable member 31 ... Fixed belt 33 ... Hook 34 ... Buckle 35 ... Belt guide 50 ... Wheelchair 51 ... Front wheel 52 ... Rear wheel

Claims (4)

[Claims] A wheel guide that guides forward or backward movement of one of a front wheel and a rear wheel of a wheelchair and regulates lateral movement; and a wheel regulating member that contacts the other wheel and regulates the movement. A left and right belt guide provided between the wheel guide and the wheel regulating member, and a hook that is passed over both belt guides in a bridging manner and that can be hooked to the wheelchair at both left and right ends. A fixed belt provided, and belt tensioning means for holding the fixed belt tensioned between the left and right belt guides in a tensioned state in a state in which the hook is hung on a wheelchair. A wheelchair fixing device in which a tension force at the time of tension acts on the other wheel toward the wheel regulating member and toward the floor. 2. The wheelchair fixing device according to claim 1, wherein the belt tensioning means is constituted by a buckle provided substantially at the center of the fixing belt. 3. A tensioning belt according to claim 1, wherein the belt tensioning means is connected in a substantially T-shape to a substantially central portion of the fixing belt between the left and right belt guides, and the tensioning belt. And a winder for applying tension to the fixing belt by winding the wheelchair. 4. The wheelchair fixing device according to claim 1, wherein the wheel restricting member is in a ride allowable position where the wheelchair is allowed to enter, and an alighting restriction that abuts on the rear side of the wheel to restrict rearward movement. Wheelchair fixing device configured to be displaceable between the position.