Motor vehicles – Power – Electric
Patent
1991-07-11
1993-08-17
Focarino, Margaret A.
Motor vehicles
Power
Electric
180 656, 180907, 310 67R, B60K 100
Patent
active
052360555
ABSTRACT:
A motorized wheel assembly is provided for a wheelchair in which there is a seat for receiving the occupant attached to a vertical shaft with a single central wheel mounted at the bottom of the shaft for rotation about a horizontal axis transverse to the chair and defining a direction of forward movement of the wheel forwardly of the chair. On the shaft is carried a battery and control unit for supplying power to the drive motor of the, wheel mounted on the hub of the wheel. An outrigger frame includes a sleeve slidable on the shaft and a plurality of arms extending outwardly from the sleeve each arm carrying a castor wheel to prevent toppling of the device. Steering is achieved by the feet of the user applied to the outrigger frame to rotate the chair and the drivewheel about a vertical axis. The wheel is of the motor in a hub design which is achieved by providing a cylindrical housing surrounding the motor with at least one annular bearing on the outer peripheral surface of the housing carrying the rim of the wheel which directly surrounds the housing. An output shaft at one end of the housing drives the rim through a coupling extending around the housing.
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Ade Stanley G.
Battison Adrian D.
Canadian Aging & Rehabilitation Product Development Corporation
Focarino Margaret A.
Hurley Kevin
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