# US 10,370,050 B2 · Assembly for giving self-service access to at least one wheelchair for a person of reduced mobility > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,370,050 B2 - Document ID: US10370050B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/123,697 - Filed: 2015-03-02 - Published: 2017-01-19 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-03-06 - Assignees: Myd“L” - Applicants: Myd“L” - Inventors: Pierre Belman - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10370050B2 ## CPC - B62H 3/00: Separate supports or holders for parking or storing cycles (cycle supports used during maintenance B25H; building aspects E04H) - A61G 5/028: {Special adaptations or provisions on hand rim, e.g. for facilitating gripping} - A61G 5/04: motor-driven (A61G5/06 takes precedence; motor-operated rests A61G5/12; for vehicles with handlebars, equipped with three or more wheels B62K5/003, B62K5/023) - A61G 5/12: Rests specially adapted therefor, e.g. for the head or the feet - A61G 5/122: {for the back} - A61G 5/125: {for arms} - A61G 5/128: {for feet} - B62H 5/00: Appliances preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of cycles; Locks integral with cycles (fittings for preventing or indicating use or theft of vehicles in general B60R; general features of locks E05B) - G07F 17/0042: {for hiring of objects} - G07F 17/0057: {for the hiring or rent of vehicles, e.g. cars, bicycles or wheelchairs (car rental G07B15/00)} - B62H 2003/005: {Supports or holders associated with means for bike rental} - G06Q 30/0645: Rental transactions; Leasing transactions - B62H: CYCLE STANDS; SUPPORTS OR HOLDERS FOR PARKING OR STORING CYCLES; APPLIANCES PREVENTING OR INDICATING UNAUTHORIZED USE OR THEFT OF CYCLES; LOCKS INTEGRAL WITH CYCLES; DEVICES FOR LEARNING TO RIDE CYCLES - A61G: TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N1/00) - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract Assembly for giving access to at least one wheelchair (1) comprising a frame (2) supported by wheels (5, 7) and provided with a seat (3), the assembly comprising a docking station (100) having a structure (201) delimiting at least one docking point designed to receive the chair such that, when the chair is in the docking point, the chair rests on its wheels and the seat of the chair is disposed so as to be usable by a user who wishes to sit down. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An assembly for providing self-service access to at least one wheelchair comprising a chassis supported by wheels and provided with a seating member, the assembly comprising a docking station comprising a structure delimiting at least one docking point to accept the wheelchair in such a way, that, when the wheelchair is in the docking point, the wheelchair rests on the wheels and the seating member of the wheelchair is arranged in such a way as to be usable by a user wishing to sit down; wherein the wheels include rear wheels; wherein the structure forms a base having at least one seat having a seating member which is not as high as the seating member of the wheelchair and is not as wide as a space between the rear wheels of the wheelchair such that the wheelchair can be engaged, in reverse, over the top of the seating member of the seat while resting on the wheels; wherein the docking station is provided with a locking device configured to retain the wheelchair in the docking point; and wherein the locking device is secured to the structure and comprises, a casing delimiting a slot in which a lock bolt is able to move between a position in which the lock bolt projects into the slot and a position retracted from the slot, and a strike secured to the wheelchair configured to be engaged in the slot and to collaborate with the lock bolt when the wheelchair is in a position in the docking station. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the structure comprises a substantially vertical wall delimiting part of the at least one docking point facing a frontal opening and a fold-down seating member mounted to said wall so as to be mobile between a position of use when the docking point is empty and a retracted position when the wheelchair is accepted in the docking point. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the casing contains a spring urging the lock bolt to return toward the position in which it projects into the slot and an electric actuator arranged to move the lock bolt from the position in which it projects into the slot into the position retracted from the slot. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the locking device is arranged to be controlled by an electronic device associated with the docking station. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The assembly as claimed in claim 4, in which the electronic device is arranged to perform a method of hiring the wheelchair. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the structure of the docking station comprises lateral walls designed to extend facing the wheels of the wheelchair when the wheelchair is in the at least one docking, point. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, comprising the at least one wheelchair of which the chassis of the wheelchair comprises a shell forming the seating member and a backrest of the wheelchair. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The assembly as claimed in claim 7, in which arms extend forward from, the backrest, which are bent downward and which each have a lower end provided with one of the wheels that form steering wheels. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The assembly as claimed in claim 8, in which a footrest is fixed between the arms so as to be mobile between a substantially horizontal position of use and a substantially vertical storage position. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The assembly as claimed in claim 7, in which the shell comprises at least one component made of rotomolded plastic. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the locking system comprises a latch fitted with the lock bolt. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, the latch being housed under the seating member of the seat of the docking station. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The assembly as claimed in claim 11, in which the latch has a housing able to accept the strike, the lock bolt being able to move between a position of engagement in which the lock bolt projects into the housing, retaining the strike therein, and a retracted position in which introduction of the strike and extraction of the strike from the housing are permitted. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The assembly as claimed in claim 13, in which the latch is provided with a cam surface arranged in such a way that pressure of the strike against the cam surface causes the lock bolt to move from one of the position of engagement in which the lock bolt projects into the housing and the retracted position. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the strike has the form of a bar. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which the strike has the form of an elongate plate having a free end pierced with an opening. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The assembly as claimed in claim 11, in which the strike and the latch each have an active part, the active part of the strike extending over a height greater than the height over which the active part of the latch extends so as to allow a clearance range band for the relative vertical positioning of the docking station and the wheelchair during the operations of inserting the wheelchair into the docking station or extracting the wheelchair from the docking station.