SINGLE-AXLE SELF-PROPELLED INVALID CHAIR Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61G5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to invalid rehabilitation facilities, and can be used for independent movement of handicapped people and as a civil vehicle. A single-axle self-propelled invalid chair is designed in the form of a double-track two-wheel vehicle with a centre of mass below an axle, and consists of a bearer frame with wheels and guides, and a passenger chair with its own frame. The vehicle has a wheel drive by electric motors mounted on the bearer frame and a single chair drive by an electric motor mounted on the chair frame, and an electronic device. The electronic device adjusts a load current of the electric motor of the chair drive according to the load current variations of the electric motors of the wheel drives, or according to the deflection value and mode of the bearer frame of the vehicle from a static stability position of the same.

EFFECT: handicapped people are provided with an effective rehabilitation facility represented by completely operated individual vehicle applicable for workplace, recreation, household travels or distant journeys, etc.

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