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US 2025/0375340 A1Published application
Mobility aids and braking mechanisms thereof
OwnerXie Fuweiinventor
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Abstract
A braking mechanism of a mobility aid includes a pair of brake handles, a pair of brake cables, and a pair of brakes. The brakes are in a normally braked state with wheels of a mobility aid until a user manually actuates one or both brake handles. The pair of brake cables are coupled to one another such that each of the brake cables are actuated simultaneously by a single-handed actuation of one of the pair of brake handles.
Claims16
A mobility aid, comprising:
- a left-side frame;
- a right-side frame coupled to the left-side frame;
- a plurality of wheels supporting the left-side and right-side frames;
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- a braking mechanism including:
- a first brake handle positioned adjacent the left-side frame;
- a second brake handle positioned adjacent the right-side frame;
- a first cable having a first end portion coupled to the first brake handle, a second end portion, and a middle portion;
- a second cable having a first end portion coupled to the second brake cable, a second end portion, and a middle portion;
- a housing;
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- a connector slidably supported in the housing and fixedly coupled to the middle portion of each of the first and second cables such that the middle portion of one of the first or second cables moving in a first direction results in the middle portion of the other of the first or second cables moving in the first direction.
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A braking mechanism for braking a mobility aid, the braking mechanism comprising:
- a first brake handle;
- a second brake handle;
- a first cable having a first end portion coupled to the first brake handle, a second end portion, and a middle portion;
- a second cable having a first end portion coupled to the second brake cable, a second end portion, and a middle portion;
- a first brake coupled to the second end portion of the first cable and configured to be positioned adjacent a first wheel of a mobility aid;
- a second brake coupled to the second end portion of the second cable and configured to be positioned adjacent a second wheel of the mobility aid;
- a housing defining an inner chamber;
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- a sliding block slidably supported in the inner chamber of the housing and fixedly coupled to the middle portion of each of the first and second cables such that an actuation of one of the first or second cables moves the sliding block in a first direction, whereby the sliding block simultaneously moves the middle portion of the first cable in the first direction and the middle portion of the second cable in the first direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.