Motor vehicles – Motor-carrying attachments – Driven steering wheel type
Reexamination Certificate
2002-08-28
2004-03-09
Morris, Lesley D. (Department: 3611)
Motor vehicles
Motor-carrying attachments
Driven steering wheel type
C180S907000, C180S304000, C280S210000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06702051
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a detachable transmission mechanism for a wheel chair and particularly to an electric transmission mechanism used in a wheel chair with which a used wheel chair can be attached by way of DIY (Do It Yourself) so as to become an electric wheel chair.
2. Description of Related Art
The wheel chair was specially developed for handicapped or slowly moved aged persons and while a user sits in the wheel chair and pushes both lateral large wheels with both hands actuating grip rings coaxially connecting with the large wheels, the movement of the wheel chair can be obtained purposely. A weak person or a hand-hindered person resulting from illness or wound usually is unable to exert a force to the large wheels so that it is necessary to ask some other persons for gripping the handles at rear side of the wheel chair before the wheel chair can be moved. Hence, the conventional wheel chair has to be assisted by the user himself or any other person in order to meet the basic requirement of movement.
Accordingly, the so called electric wheel chair has been developed and the feature of the electric wheel chair is a transmission mechanism is provided under a “h” shaped seat, that is, one of two rear wheels is designed as the driving wheel and the other one rear wheel is the follower wheel so as to constitute a basis of moving forward. Two front wheels are controlled by a stir stem located at the armrests being shifted to front, rear, left or right so that the wheel chair can move toward a direction desired by the user. Although the conventional wheel chair has a good and easily operated control device, there still are following deficiencies: 1) the transmission mechanism of the electric wheel chair has to be driven with the electric power and it becomes unmoved in case of the electric power is depleted and the basic function of manual drive has lost; 2) In order to obtain the effect of speed differential (that is, the inner side rear wheel has a less rotational speed than the outer side rear wheel) for the two rear wheels and to avoid turning over or a risk of being unable to turn during the wheel chair making a turn, a sophisticate speed change box has to be mounted between the two rear wheels so that it increases the complicity of the transmission mechanism of the wheel chair; and 3) due to both the body and the transmission mechanism of the conventional electric wheel chair being made with complication, the production cost thereof is pretty high so that the retail price thereof is much more expensive and is not possible to become prevalent among handicapped and motion hindered persons.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provided a detachable transmission mechanism for a wheel chair. The detachable transmission mechanism includes a control unit, an engaging unit, a battery unit and a transmission device. The original front wheels of the wheel chair can be detached and the hub and the pivot part are mounted to both the upper and lower frames of the wheel chair. The battery unit can be fixed to the wheel chair under the seat thereof. When a control switch is turned on, the driving wheel can rotate in a forward or a reversed direction with the wheel chair being capable of moving forward or backward. By turning the handle, a follower wheel at the bottom of the wheel chair can be rotated to allow the wheel chair making a turn.
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Chu Simon
Hsieh Chih-Chin
Lin Tseng-Chien
Morris Lesley D.
Yeagley Daniel
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