Abstract
At present, various welfare equipments for the old people have been rapidly developed in Japan. Among them, this paper focused on an electric motor cart for the welfare, and the following analyses were carried out by the biomechanical study using a digital human model and the physiology measurements of a human body; (1) the optimization of sheet height of the cart, (2) the verification of the optimum, position of driving panel, (3) the optimum shape of the operation equipment such as speed control dial.
