WHEELCHAIR LIFTING AND ROTATION OF SEAT, USING MECHANICAL PARTS EXTENDED AND CONTRACTED OR ROTATED BY COMPRESSED AIR OR OIL-HYDRAULIC PRESSURE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism automatically lifting and lowering and rotating a seat to ensure that a disabled user of a wheelchair can get on and off the wheelchair with the help of a few carers or by himself.;SOLUTION: The wheelchair is equipped with a compressed air pressure or hydraulic pressure generating equipment or a gas cylinder, and a seat 2 is lifted and lowered and rotated by the extension of an extension cylinder 8. The operations are controlled by a seat direction changeover handle 11.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO