8A25 アジャスタブルシート付き車椅子の開発

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It has been required recently to correspond to the problems such as diversity of the physical disability and aging of disabled persons. Hence, the improvement of performance for welfare equipments such as wheelchairs is required by such social background. There will be three problems for the operation of conventional wheelchairs : to pass on the place with level difference, to stretch the body to take the thing of higher place because the wheelchair seat is fixed at low position, to move the user of a wheelchair to another place such as the bed. To solve these problems, the authors have developed a new type of wheelchairs with an adjustable seat; four motor-driven vertical shafts to adjust the height are attached to the traditional wheelchair. It is called angel-mam. This paper introduces outline of the wheelchair and the control mechanism of height adjustment using PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller) which is a kind of micro controller. In addition to them, the biomechanical analysis for a helper, who lifts up a wheelchair user to the bed, because such works will give the most severe physical burden.
一般社団法人日本機械学会の論文
2003-11-07