Power operated wheelchair

Details Power operated wheelchair Power operated wheelchair

1979-09-24

1981-06-23

Pekar, John A.

Motor vehicles

Special wheel base

Five or more wheels

180236, 180329, 180DIG3, B62D 6110

Patent

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042745039

ABSTRACT:
A wheelchair assembly includes an occupant seat having a central shaft for mounting the seat on an undercarriage for universal tilting movement, for vertical movement along the shaft axis and for rotation about such axis. The undercarriage has a plurality of ground engaging wheels driven together by a driving mechanism which includes a drive motor and steered together by a steering mechanism which includes a steering motor. The steering motor may be operatively connected with both the seat and the wheels for turning them together by operation of a control assembly, or the steering motor may be operatively connected with only the seat or with only the wheels for independent operation. Otherwise, the steering mechanism may couple the seat with the wheels while the steering motor is disconnected so that wheel steering may be operated by a manual turning of the seat. An analyzer assembly compares the direction of travel chosen by the seat occupant to the actual orientation of the wheels and then directs the steering motor to align the wheels to the direction chosen, without turning the chair. And, the seat is automatically tilted toward a direction opposite that to which, it tends to lean when the wheelchair moves up an incline or down a decline.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3642088 (1972-02-01), Smith
patent: 3825087 (1974-07-01), Wilson
patent: 3938608 (1976-02-01), Folco-Zambelli
patent: 3972379 (1976-08-01), Norris

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