JP2628091B2 - Mobile vehicles for the disabled - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile vehicle for persons with disabilities, which is mainly used indoors, and more particularly, a person with a disability who cannot get down from a bed and can not walk. The present invention relates to a mobile vehicle for the disabled that can be operated by riding on a vehicle.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, it is impossible to take a wheelchair directly from a bed because a disabled person cannot ride without a helper because of a structure in which the person cannot get on the wheelchair without turning backwards. Was.

Although there has been a strong demand for persons with disabilities to be able to ride and operate freely without having to once stand on the floor from a bed, there has been no mobile vehicle that can meet this demand.

Problem to be Solved by the Invention The present invention is to create a mobile vehicle that meets the demands of people with disabilities who have been screaming in the past. A disabled person who cannot stand on a car could not get on the moving vehicle without an attendant. Therefore, the aim was to develop a mobile vehicle that can easily get on and off with the power of the arm.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides an airframe 1 for solving the above problems.
In the front-rear direction of the right and left middle part, a single type front wheel 5 for steering that can be appropriately steered and a single type rear wheel 10 for propulsion that can be operated forward and reverse so as to be able to move forward and backward are arranged. At the upper position in the front-rear direction from the rear wheel side to the front wheel side, a straddling riding type seat 20 which is long in the front-rear direction and narrow in the left-right direction is provided. Steps 32 are provided at a very low position, and a handrail extending in the front-rear direction at a position higher than the seat 20 by providing a desired space on both the left and right sides of the seat 20 where the left and right knees can freely pass. 19a,
The vehicle for the handicapped is provided with a vertical gap a between the seat 20 at the left and right middle part and the handrails 19a and 19b on both sides of the seat 20 at the rear side of the body 1 in plan view. .

Effects and Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, in order to get on a moving vehicle from the bed, the disabled person lowers both feet from the bed to the floor surface and backs the moving vehicle in a chair-hung state with the crotch left and right opened. Attach and join the rear end of the seat of the mobile car to the bet end face between the left and right crotch. At this time, the height of the seat is set to be substantially the same as or slightly lower than the height of the bet.

In this state, the foot of the disabled person remains on the floor due to the gap between the left and right of the moving vehicle, the left and right hands can easily move to the handrail on that side, the body can be held by the handrail, and People with disabilities can move on their own handrails along the handrails and get on. At this time, since the bet and the seat are continuous, it is not necessary to ride at once, so that the rider can move slowly and gradually according to his / her physical strength, and bring his / her feet forward to step. In this state, the front wheels are appropriately steered to drive the rear wheels to move forward or backward to move to an appropriate place.
Further, in order to return to the bet, the user can back and make the rear end of the seat abut on the bet, and can easily return to the bet by the reverse movement.

Further, this moving vehicle is extremely effective when using the toilet, such as when defecation, and can be easily moved to the toilet side by the operation of returning to the bed on a Western-style toilet, and it is possible to transfer to the moving vehicle as it is.

As described above, according to the present invention, with the above-described configuration, the user can easily get on the handrail, move forward and easily return to the bet or return to the bet in the waist bent state without standing up from the bet and facing backward. To play.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Reference numeral 1 denotes an airframe, and a frame 2 includes a lower peripheral frame 2a formed of a substantially rectangular pipe in plan view and a lower peripheral frame 2a.
Vertical frame 2b, 2b heading in the front-rear direction at a position appropriately shifted to the left and right from the center of the left and right, and handrail support columns 3a, 3b for supporting handrails to be described later around the left and right peripheral frames 2a, 2a. In addition, seat support columns 4a, 4b for supporting a seat, which will be described later, are provided upright before and after the vertical frames 2b, 2b, respectively.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a front wheel for steering, which is disposed on the front side between the left and right vertical frames 2b, 2b, and which is connected to a metal 7 fixed to a frame 6 fixed to the seat support column 4a via a vertical shaft 8 which is rotatable. The front wheel support fork 9 is attached.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a propulsion rear wheel, and a support shaft 12 of the rear wheel is attached to brackets 11, 11 which are fixed to the seat support columns 4b, 4b standing from the rear ends of the left and right vertical frames 2b, 2b. It is attached to the front and rear movement adjustment setting freely. A large-diameter pulley 14 around which the timing belt 13 is wound is integrally provided on one side surface of the rear wheel 10.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a motor, which is built in the speed reducer and which can be rotated forward and backward, and is mounted on the frame 2. A battery 16 which is a driving source of the motor 15 is
It is supported on 15 as appropriate. The timing belt 13 is wound around a pulley 18 fixed to a drive shaft 17 of the motor 15 and the pulley 14.

Reference numerals 19a and 19b denote left and right handrails, and the handrail support columns 3a and 3b
, And the rear thereof is elongated.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a seat, which is supported by the seat support columns 4a and 4b, extends from the upper portion of the front wheel to the upper portion of the rear end of the rear wheel, and has a height substantially equal to or slightly lower than the height of the bet. The height is adjustable.

Reference numerals 21a and 21b denote steering levers, which are rotatably supported on the peripheral frames 2a and 2a with pins 22 so that the cores of the pins on the right and left sides thereof coincide with each other. The lower ends of the levers 21a and 21b are positioned below the frame 2. Side, the arm 24 projecting upward is fixed to the horizontal shaft 23, and the arm 24 and the bracket 25 fixed to the front wheel support fork 9 are connected by a lot 26, By operating the levers 21a and 21b back and forth, the direction of the front wheel 5 can be changed.

Reference numeral 27 denotes a steering rod, and a steering handle 28 is attached to an upper portion thereof.
9a, 29b so that the lower end of the steering lever
The connection setting can be made by selecting 21a or 21b. Therefore, the right-handed person sets the steering rod 27 on the right side so as to be steerable with the right lever 21a, and conversely, the left-handed person is configured to be able to steer with the left lever 21b and set the steering rod 27 on the left side. .

Reference numeral 30 denotes a first operation switch, which is attached to the grip 28 of the steering rod 27, so that the motor 15 can be switched between forward and reverse. The switch of this embodiment rotates forward each time the switch is pressed,
The switch is a push-switching type switch that can be switched in the reverse direction, and the power is turned off when the hand is released.

Reference numeral 31 denotes a second operation switch, which is provided at the rear end of the handrails 19a and 19b in the illustrated example, and has the same function as the first operation switch 30. However, the second operation switch 31 is used when the disabled person is on the side of the bet that does not get on the moving vehicle and moves the moving vehicle to the bet with the posture of sitting on the bet or releases the moving vehicle. is there.

Reference numeral 32 denotes a step, which is stretched on both the left and right sides of the frame 2 and is not stretched from the front-rear middle of the body 1 to the rear side.
The space between the left and right middle seats 20 and the handrails 19a and 19b located on the upper side separated from the left and right sides is formed by voids a and a that do not intervene, and can walk on the floor.

.. Are caster wheels provided on the lower surface of the step 32, and are provided so as to be freely turned on the floor surface and roll freely without falling down.

34 is a front step, which is foldably mounted upward.

Reference numeral 35 denotes a cover that covers the lower part of the seat 20. Reference numeral 36 denotes a cover that covers an outer surface on the lower side of the handrail.

To explain the operation of the above example, first, in order to transfer from the bed B to the moving vehicle, in the case of a normal bet, the disabled person sits on the side of the bed where the moving vehicle is located and opens his crotch slightly. Make adjustments. In the case of a special bet for a disabled person, the front side of the bet pivots from the seat and the back side of the bet rises at the same time, the crotch is slightly opened and adjusted in the same manner as described above by operating the chair.

In this state, the moving vehicle near the bet is pulled backward, so that the rear end of the seat 20 of the moving vehicle intervenes at the center of the crotch of the vehicle and strikes the end surface of the bet.

In this operation, it is preferable to operate the second operation switch 31 to back the moving vehicle. In this case, since the switch 31 is located at the rear end side of the handrails 19a and 19b extending rearward, the hand may be slightly moved. You can easily back just by stretching. In addition, since this mobile vehicle is lightweight and compact, its position can be freely changed with a handrail with arm strength.

Next, the handicapped handrail while holding the bed
Climb forward on the step 32 while walking on the floor of the gap a, a while keeping the waist bending posture without raising the body while getting caught by 19a, 19b I do.

Then, the right-handed person sets the steering rod 27 to the right handrail 19a side and operates the steering lever 21a back and forth with the right hand to steer the front wheels 5, and simultaneously rotates the motor 15 forward or backward by the first switch 30. Reverse and move to a predetermined place.

Especially when going to the toilet, go forward and turn close,
Contrary to the case where the seat 20 is brought into contact with the toilet side at the back and the user transfers to the bed, the user can move to the toilet by holding the handrails 19a and 19b backward. Similarly, after the defecation, when the user moves from the bed to the moving vehicle, the user can easily get on the vehicle and can easily return to the original bet.

A left-handed person may set the steering rod 27 to the left handrail 19b.

After returning to the bed in the manner of moving to the toilet, the second operation switch 31 may be used to appropriately move the moving vehicle away from the bed within the reach of the bed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a side view, FIG. 2 is a plan view, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view partially omitted. Symbols 1 in the figure are the fuselage, 5 is the front wheel, 10 is the rear wheel, 19a and 19b are the handrails, 20
Indicates a seat, 32 indicates a step, and a indicates a gap.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A single front wheel 5 for steering which can be appropriately steered, and a single rear wheel 10 for propulsion which can be operated forward and backward so as to be able to move forward and backward in an anteroposterior direction of a right and left intermediate portion of the vehicle body 1. A straddle-type seat 20 that is long in the front and rear and narrow in the left and right direction is provided at an upper position in the front and rear direction from the rear wheel side to the front wheel side. At the front end side, a step 32 is provided to extend the height from the running surface to an extremely low position, and a desired space through which the left and right knees can freely pass is provided on both the left and right sides of the seat 20, and a position higher than the seat 20 is provided. Handrails 19a and 19b extending in the front-rear direction are provided on the rear side of the body 1 in a plan view.
A mobile vehicle for the disabled, which is formed in the vertical gaps a, a between the vehicle and a, 19b.