Title:Development of a manual attendant-controlled wheelchair with a foldable plate seat and a mechanism absorbing vibration.
Author:Ikuo YONEDA,Ichiro HIROSE,Takuya FUJIKI,Kouichi WADA, Tsutomu HASHIZUME(Tokyo Metropolitan Technical Aid Center) Minoru SUZUKI,Tohru SUZUKI(Tokyo Metropolitan Rehabilitation Center) Hideo KAWAI(Tsukuba Technical College) Yoshihiro KITAJIMA,Masahisa DEGUCHI,Takeshi ENDO(Wheely Co. LTD)
Proceedings of 12^th Japanese Conference of Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology. vol.12,pp. 33-36(August,1997)
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Abstract:
This paper describes modification of a foldable manual attendant-controlled wheelchair which was already developed. The modification about comfort to sit and ride on it was accomplished. The seat was changed from a sling to a plate. A mechanism absorbing vibration was put in the new wheelchair.An elastic rubber made by plastic absorbed vibration. This mechanism was easy to maintain and capable to change the elastic rubber according to favorite of the user. The weight of the wheelchair was 11.7kg. The prototype of wheelchair with and without the mechanism absorbing vibration and a regular wheelchair experimented with falling from 8cm curb. The result of attenuation rate showed that the mechanism efficiently absorbed the impact. The prototype without the mechanism caused bigger impact than the regular wheelchair. This meant that the mechanism absorbing vibration was efficacious for the prototype very much.