Mobile platform and related methods
AssigneeMobility Transfer Experts, LLC
InventorsGlenn Beattie, John Cantone
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Abstract
Implementations of mobile platforms for assisting a person with a physical disability may include a base coupled to a motor and a deck coupled to a base, wherein the motor is configured to move the deck along the base. The mobile platform may also include a controller coupled with the motor that is configured to direct the motor that moves the deck over the base to a first position to allow a user to sit on a first seating device resting on the deck and to direct the movement of the deck to a second position different from the first position to allow a user to sit on a second seating device resting on the deck, wherein the first seating device and the second seating device are each configured to seat a human.
Claims17
A mobile platform for assisting a person with a physical disability comprising:
- a base coupled to a motor;
- a deck coupled to the base, wherein the motor is configured to move the deck along the base and wherein the deck is configured to hold a first seating device and a second seating device;
- a controller coupled with the motor, the controller configured to direct the motor that moves the deck over the base to a first position to allow a user to sit on the first seating device resting on the deck and to direct the movement of the deck to a second position different from the first position to allow a user to sit on the second seating device resting on the deck;
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- an extension portion removably coupled to an end of the base;
- wherein the deck in the second position is extended further from the motor than the deck in the first position.
A mobile platform for assisting a person with a physical disability comprising:
- a base coupled to a motor, the base comprising a belt pulley fixedly coupled to the base;
- a belt coupled to the motor and extending from the motor and around the belt pulley;
- a trolley coupled to the belt;
- a deck fixedly coupled to the trolley and to the base, the deck comprising a plurality of rollers coupled to an underside of the deck and a channel in the underside of the deck, wherein the motor is configured to move the deck along the base;
- a controller coupled with the motor, the controller configured to direct the motor to move the deck over the base to a first position to allow a user to access a first seating device and to move the deck to a second position different from the first position to allow a user to access the second seating device;
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- an extension portion removably coupled to an end of the base;
- wherein the first seating device and second seating device are configured to rest on an upper surface of the deck;
- and
- wherein the first seating device and the second seating device are each configured to seat a human.
A mobile platform for assisting a person with a physical disability comprising:
- a base coupled to a deck;
- a plurality of rollers coupled to the deck, wherein the deck is configured to be manually moved over the base to a first position to allow a user to sit on a first seating device resting on the deck and to be manually moved over the deck to a second position different from the first position to allow the user to sit on a second seating device resting on the deck;
- a braking mechanism coupled to one of the base and the deck, wherein the braking mechanism is configured to secure the deck relative to the base at the first position and to secure the deck relative to the base at the second position;
- and
- an extension portion removably coupled to an end of the base;
- wherein the first seating device and the second seating device are each configured to seat a human.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.