JP2019064458A - Holding device - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a holding device which can hold a vehicle in a vehicle cabin regardless of a size of the vehicle having wheels.SOLUTION: A holding device 11 holds a wheel chair 14 placed on a floor surface 13a in a vehicle cabin 12. The holding device 11 includes a pair of sandwiching parts 19 which are provided so as to be housed in housing recessed parts 22 formed on the floor surface 13a in the vehicle cabin 12 and can hold one driving wheel 16 of the wheel chair 14 from an axial direction of the driving wheel 16. The pair of sandwiching parts 19 is configured to be movable between a housing position where the sandwiching parts 19 are housed in the housing recessed parts 22 and a sandwiching position where the sandwiching parts 19 sandwich the driving wheel 16.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a holding device for holding a vehicle having wheels, such as a wheelchair, in a vehicle compartment.

  Conventionally, as a holding device of this type, for example, the one shown in Patent Document 1 is known. Such a wheelchair fixing device includes a rectangular housing fixed to a recess formed in a floor surface in a vehicle such as an automobile, and a rectangular wheel rotatably attached to the housing in the vertical direction. And a stopper plate. In this case, the wheel stopper plate is pivotable between a stored position stored in the housing and an upright position standing up from the housing and abutting on the left and right rear wheels of the wheelchair on the floor surface.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-76310

  By the way, in the above-mentioned wheelchair fixing device, the wheelchair is fixed by rotating the wheel stopper plate to the upright position and making it abut on the left and right rear wheels of the wheelchair. For this reason, in the above-mentioned wheelchair fixing device, there exists a problem that the width | variety of the rear wheel on either side can not fix the wheelchair of the size exceeding the width | variety of the wheel stopper plate. Such a problem is not limited to the wheelchair fixing device for fixing a wheelchair, but is generally common to a holding device for holding a vehicle having wheels.

  The present invention has been made in view of the problems existing in such prior art. An object of the present invention is to provide a holding device capable of holding the vehicle in a passenger compartment regardless of the size of the vehicle having wheels.

Hereinafter, the means for solving the above-mentioned subject and its operation effect are described.
A holding device for solving the above-mentioned problems is a holding device for holding a vehicle having wheels placed on a floor surface in a vehicle compartment, which can be accommodated in an accommodation portion formed on the floor surface or wall surface in the vehicle interior. Provided with a pair of holding portions capable of holding one of the wheels of the vehicle from the axial direction of the wheels, and the pair of holding portions hold the wheel and the housing position housed in the housing portion. The gist of the present invention is configured to be movable between the holding position and the holding position.

  According to this configuration, since only one wheel of the vehicle can be held by moving the pair of holding portions to the holding position, the vehicle is held in the vehicle compartment regardless of the size of the vehicle having the wheels. be able to.

  A holding device for solving the above-mentioned problems is a holding device for holding a vehicle having wheels placed on a floor surface in a vehicle compartment, which can be accommodated in an accommodation portion formed on the floor surface or wall surface in the vehicle interior. A holding portion for holding the one wheel of the vehicle by a wall surface adjacent to the wall surface in the axial direction of the wheel, the holding portion being a storage position to be stored in the storage portion; The gist of the present invention is configured to be movable between a holding position for holding the wheel.

  According to this configuration, by moving the holding portion to the holding position, only one wheel of the vehicle can be held so as to be sandwiched between the holding portion and the wall surface of the vehicle compartment. Instead, the vehicle can be held in the passenger compartment.

In the holding device, it is preferable that the holding portion includes an elastic cushion portion at a contact portion with the wheel.
According to this configuration, when the wheel is held by the holding portion, the cushion portion is elastically deformed in accordance with the shape of the wheel, so that the holding portion can be fitted to the wheel.

It is preferable that the holding device includes an urging portion that urges the holding portion from the housing position toward the holding position, and a lock portion capable of locking the holding portion at the housing position.
According to this configuration, by releasing the locked state of the holding portion by the lock portion at the housing position, the holding portion can be automatically moved from the housing position to the holding position by the biasing force of the biasing portion.

In the holding device, it is preferable that the holding portion is configured to be rotatable between the housing position and the holding position.
According to this configuration, it is possible to save space as compared with the case where the holding portion is configured to be movable without rotating between the housing position and the holding position.

  According to the present invention, regardless of the size of the vehicle having the wheels, the vehicle can be held in the passenger compartment.

The perspective view which shows the use condition of the holding | maintenance apparatus of one Embodiment. The top view which shows the state when the clamping part of a holding | maintenance apparatus exists in an accommodation position. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. Sectional drawing which shows the state when the clamping part of a holding | maintenance apparatus exists in a clamping position. The perspective view which shows the use condition of the holding | maintenance apparatus of a modification.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a holding device will be described according to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, the holding device 11 is provided on the floor 13 a of the floor 13 in the compartment 12 such as a car, for example, and holds the wheelchair 14 as an example of a vehicle mounted on the floor 13 a. Do. The wheelchair 14 includes a pair of casters 15 functioning as a front wheel, and a pair of driving wheels 16 as an example of a wheel functioning as a rear wheel.

  The pair of drive wheels 16 includes a tire portion 17 and a hand rim 18 provided outside the tire portion 17. The wheelchair 14 is advanced or retracted by the user rotating the hand rim 18 by hand and the tire portion 17 integrally rotating with the hand rim 18. That is, the driving wheel 16 is a wheel to which rotational driving force is applied by the user of the wheelchair 14.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the holding device 11 holds a pair of substantially disc-shaped holding members capable of holding (holding) one of the pair of driving wheels 16 of the wheelchair 14 (one driving wheel 16). A portion 19; a pair of pivot shafts 20 arranged horizontally and parallel to each other in the floor portion 13; and a pair of arms 21 connecting the pair of pivot shafts 20 and the pair of holding portions 19 respectively There is. In the present embodiment, the holding unit is configured by the holding unit 19. The pair of sandwiching portions 19 is configured to be accommodated in a pair of accommodation concave portions 22 as an example of the accommodation portion formed on the floor surface 13a. The pair of pivot shafts 20 is disposed inside the pair of housing recesses 22 in the floor portion 13.

  Each sandwiching portion 19 includes a hard main body 23 to which the arm 21 is connected, and an elastic cushion 24 attached to the main body 23. The cushion portions 24 are respectively disposed in contact portions with the drive wheel 16 in the pair of sandwiching portions 19 when sandwiching one drive wheel 16 by the pair of sandwiching portions 19.

  Then, the pair of holding portions 19 has a housing position (position shown in FIG. 3) stored in the pair of housing concave portions 22 with the pair of rotary shafts 20 as a rotation center, and the drive wheel 16 as the shaft of the drive wheel 16 It is configured to be able to rotate (move) between a holding (holding) position (a position shown in FIG. 4) holding from both sides in the direction (the width direction of the wheelchair 14). In the present embodiment, when the holding portion 19 is in the storage position, a part of the cushion portion 24 protrudes on the floor surface 13a, but the cushion portion 24 and the floor surface 13a may be flush. The cushion portion 24 may be below the floor surface 13a.

  A torsion coil spring 25 as an example of a biasing unit is supported by the pair of pivot shafts 20. Each torsion coil spring 25 always biases the holding portion 19 from the accommodation position toward the holding position (holding position) via the arm 21. A pair of lock portions 26 capable of locking the pair of holding portions 19 at the storage position can be reciprocated in the direction toward or away from the storage recess 22 outside the pair of storage recesses 22 in the floor portion 13 Provided in

  A pair of springs 27 is disposed on the outer side of the pair of lock portions 26 in the floor portion 13 to bias the pair of lock portions 26 toward the pair of accommodation concave portions 22 which is the inner side. The lock portion 26 includes an operation portion 28 exposed on the floor surface 13 a and a locking portion 29 which can be projected into the accommodation recess 22.

  The lock portion 26 has a protruding position (the position shown in FIG. 3) at which the locking portion 29 protrudes into the housing recess 22 by the operation of the operation portion 28 and a retracted position where the locking portion 29 retracts from inside the housing recess 22 The lock portion 29 is always urged by the spring 27 in the direction toward the projecting position.

  A locking recess 30 into which the locking portion 29 can be inserted is formed at a position facing the locking portion 29 of the locking portion 26 in the main body 23 of each holding portion 19 in the housing position. Therefore, each holding portion 19 is locked by the lock portion 26 by inserting the locking portion 29 into the locking recess 30 in a state where each holding portion 19 is in the storage position. That is, when the locking portion 29 locks the holding portion 19 in the locking recess 30, the rotation of the holding portion 19 is inhibited.

Next, the operation of the holding device 11 will be described.
Now, in the case where the wheelchair 14 is held by the holding device 11, one drive is performed between the pair of holding portions 19 on the floor surface 13a in the compartment 12 with the pair of holding portions 19 in the storage position. The wheelchair 14 is placed on the floor 13a so that the wheel 16 is disposed. Subsequently, when the operation portion 28 of each lock portion 26 is operated to move each lock portion 26 from the projecting position to the retracted position against the biasing force of the spring 27, the locking portion 29 of each lock portion 26 is accommodated Withdraw from the inside of the recess 22. That is, the locking portion 29 of the locking portion 26 retracts from within the locking recess 30 of each holding portion 19.

  Then, the locked state of the holding portion 19 by each lock portion 26 is released, and the holding portion 19 is pivoted so as to rise from the storage position to the holding position by the biasing force of the torsion coil spring 25. Thereby, as shown in FIG.1 and FIG.4, one drive wheel 16 of the wheelchair 14 is clamped by a pair of clamping part 19, and the wheelchair 14 is hold | maintained on the floor surface 13a.

  At this time, the pair of holding portions 19 hold the drive wheel 16 in the cushion portion 24 having elasticity. Therefore, even if the drive wheel 16 has irregularities in the contact portion with the cushion portion 24, the cushion portion 24 is elastically deformed in accordance with the irregularities, so that the drive is performed in a state where the pair of holding portions 19 fit the drive wheel 16 Hold the wheel 16.

  On the other hand, when releasing the holding state of the wheelchair 14 held on the floor surface 13a by the holding device 11, the pair of holding portions 19 are laid from the holding position to the storage position against the biasing force of the torsion coil spring 25. Make it rotate. Then, the lock portion 26 is pushed by the main body portion 23 of the holding portion 19 at the locking portion 29 against the biasing force of the spring 27 to the retracted position.

  Then, when the locking recess 30 formed in the main body 23 of the sandwiching portion 19 and the locking portion 29 of the locking portion 26 face each other, the locking portion 26 is pushed to the projecting position by the biasing force of the spring 27 and the locking portion 29 are inserted into the locking recess 30. As a result, the pair of holding portions 19 are locked at the storage position by the pair of lock portions 26.

According to the embodiment described above, the following effects are exhibited.
(1) The holding device 11 is provided with a pair of holding portions 19 capable of holding one drive wheel 16 of the wheelchair 14 from both sides in the axial direction of the drive wheel 16. It is configured to be movable between a storage position to be stored and a holding position (holding position) for holding the drive wheel 16. Therefore, by moving the pair of holding portions 19 to the holding position, only one drive wheel 16 of the wheelchair 14 can be held, so the wheelchair 14 is held in the compartment 12 regardless of the size of the wheelchair 14 can do. Further, since the holding device 11 holds only one drive wheel 16 of the wheelchair 14 by the pair of holding portions 19, the holding device 11 can be made smaller than the conventional wheelchair fixing device described in Patent Document 1.

  (2) In the holding device 11, the holding portion 19 is provided with the cushion portion 24 having elasticity at the contact portion with the drive wheel 16. Therefore, when the driving wheel 16 is held between the pair of holding portions 19, the cushion portion 24 is elastically deformed in accordance with the shape of the driving wheel 16, so that the pair of holding portions 19 can be fitted to the driving wheel 16 it can.

  (3) The holding device 11 includes a torsion coil spring 25 that biases the holding unit 19 from the storage position toward the holding position, and a lock unit 26 that can lock the holding unit 19 at the storage position. Therefore, by releasing the locked state of the clamping unit 19 by the lock unit 26 at the housing position, the clamping unit 19 can be automatically rotated from the housing position to the clamping position by the biasing force of the torsion coil spring 25. .

  (4) In the holding device 11, the pair of holding portions 19 is configured to be rotatable between the storage position and the holding position. For this reason, space saving can be achieved compared with the case where it is movable without rotating the pair of holding parts 19 between the accommodation position and the holding position.

(Modification example)
The above embodiment may be modified as follows.
As shown in FIG. 5, the holding device 11 may be disposed on the wall surface 31 in the passenger compartment 12. In this case, the pair of holding portions 19 is configured to be accommodated in a pair of accommodation concave portions 22 as an example of the accommodation portion formed on the wall surface 31. Even in this case, the above-mentioned effects (1) to (3) can be obtained.

  In the holding device 11, the pair of holding portions 19 need not necessarily be configured to be rotatable between the housing position and the holding position. That is, the pair of holding portions 19 may be configured to be linearly movable without rotating between the storage position and the holding position.

The torsion coil spring 25 and the lock portion 26 may be omitted. In this case, it is preferable to provide a lock mechanism capable of locking the pair of holding portions 19 at the holding position.
-The cushion part 24 in the clamping part 19 may be abbreviate | omitted.

  · In the holding device 11, one of the pair of holding portions 19 is omitted, and the holding portion 19 holds the driving wheel 16 in the axial direction of the driving wheel 16 with the wall surface 31 in the compartment 12. You may In this case, when the sandwiching portion 19 is disposed on the wall surface 31 in the vehicle compartment 12, the drive wheel 16 is clamped from the axial direction of the drive wheel 16 by the wall surface 31 adjacent to the wall surface 31 in the vehicle cabin 12. Configured In this way, only one drive wheel 16 of the wheelchair 14 is held between the holding portion 19 and the wall surface 31 in the compartment 12 or a wall surface adjacent to the wall surface 31 by rotating the holding portion 19 to the holding position. Therefore, the wheelchair 14 can be held in the passenger compartment 12 regardless of the size of the wheelchair 14.

  In the sandwiching portion 19, the cushion portion 24 may be configured to be removable from the main body portion 23 using, for example, a surface fastener. In this way, only the cushion portion 24 can be replaced in the holding portion 19.

  The pair of holding portions 19 may be configured to rotate in conjunction with each other between the accommodation position and the holding position. In this case, for example, gears are provided on the pair of rotating shafts 20, and the pair of holding portions 19 interlock with each other by meshing the gears. In this way, only by rotating only one of the pair of sandwiching portions 19 between the accommodation position and the sandwiching position, both of the pair of sandwiching portions 19 can be simultaneously performed between the accommodation position and the sandwiching position. It can be turned.

  When the pair of gripping portions 19 rotate to the gripping position, the gripping portions 19 and the drive wheel 16 do not necessarily have to be in contact with each other. That is, there may be a gap between the pair of holding parts 19 and the driving wheel 16 in the holding position for holding the driving wheel 16.

The wheelchair 14 may be held by holding one caster 15 which is a wheel by the pair of holding portions 19.
A vehicle having wheels may be not only the wheelchair 14 but also a tricycle, a bicycle, a senior car, and the like.

Furthermore, technical ideas that can be grasped from the above embodiment will be described below.
The holding device according to claim 1, wherein the pair of holding portions move between the housing position and the holding position in conjunction with each other.

  According to this configuration, only by rotating only one of the pair of holding portions between the housing position and the holding position, both of the pair of holding portions are simultaneously moved between the housing position and the holding position. be able to.

(B) The holding device according to claim 3, wherein the cushion portion in the holding portion is configured to be removable.
According to this configuration, only the cushion portion can be replaced.

  11: holding device, 12: compartment, 13a: floor surface, 14: wheelchair as an example of a vehicle, 16: driving wheel as an example of a wheel, 19: clamping portion constituting a holding portion, 22: an example of an accommodating portion As the accommodation recess, 24 ... cushion part, 25 ... torsion coil spring as an example of urging part, 26 ... lock part, 31 ... wall surface.

Claims (5)

A holding device for holding a vehicle having wheels mounted on a floor surface of a vehicle compartment, comprising:
It is provided so as to be accommodated in an accommodating portion formed on the floor or wall in the vehicle compartment, and includes a pair of holding portions capable of holding one of the wheels of the vehicle from the axial direction of the wheels.
A holding device characterized in that the pair of holding portions is movable between a housing position housed in the housing portion and a holding position for holding the wheel. A holding device for holding a vehicle having wheels mounted on a floor surface of a vehicle compartment, comprising:
A storage portion is provided that can be accommodated in an accommodation portion formed on the floor surface or wall surface in the vehicle compartment, and holds one of the wheels of the vehicle by a wall surface adjacent to the wall surface in the axial direction of the wheel. ,
The holding device is characterized in that the holding portion is configured to be movable between a housing position housed in the housing portion and a holding position for holding the wheel.   The said holding | maintenance part is equipped with the cushion part which had elasticity in the contact part with the said wheel, The holding | maintenance apparatus of Claim 1 or Claim 2 characterized by the above-mentioned. An urging portion for urging the holding portion from the accommodation position toward the holding position;
A lock portion capable of locking the holding portion at the storage position;
The holding device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising:   The said holding | maintenance part is comprised so that rotation is possible between the said accommodation position and the said holding position, The holding | maintenance apparatus as described in any one of the Claims 1-4 characterized by the above-mentioned.