座面昇降及びスライド機能を有する車輪倒立型電動車椅子の開発

-コンセプト及び車体設計-

抄録

A wheelchair is widely used mobility aid for the people with a handicap on their lower-limb. A conventional wheelchair has several demerits that the user feels inconvenience in their daily life such as large turning radius, limitation of step climbing, and low user reaching height. To resolve the demerits, we propose an electric wheelchair with high usability and safety, which mounts seat sliders and a seat lifter on a wheeled pendulum type mobile platform. In this paper, the basic development concept and mechanical design of the proposed wheelchair is described.