Powered wheelchair having a side-access battery compartment
AssigneePride Mobility Products Corporation
InventorsJohn Puskar-Pasewicz, Kip Alder, Philip Lam
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Abstract
A wheelchair includes a frame, a chair, a pair of drive wheels, a pair of rear wheels, and a pair of from wheels. Each front wheel is part of a front arm assembly that is rigidly coupled to a drive via a mounting plate. The mounting plate is connected to the wheelchair frame by a pivot. The drives are transversely mounted. The batteries are disposed rearward of the drives. The wheelchair seat can be moved forward to provide access to the batteries without fully removing the wheelchair from the frame. Or the wheelchair may provide side access to the batteries and the wheelchair may be fixed.
Claims17
A powered wheelchair comprising:
- a frame;
- a pair of opposing drives, each drive including a substantially-transversely mounted motor and gearbox;
- a pair of drive wheels, each one of the drive wheels coupled to a corresponding one of the drives;
- a power supply compartment that is generally located behind the drives, the compartment having a side opening through which a power supply may be removed, and
- a chair supported on the frame such that the side opening of the compartment is accessible for power supply removal without removal of the chair from the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.