Assembly and Method for Transporting a Wheelchair for Transporting Persons with Disability

An assembly for transporting a wheelchair for transporting persons with disability to and from an automobile comprising a support column for attachment to a floor of the automobile, an arm connected to the support column, and a drive mechanism for moving the arm, wherein the arm is provided with an attachment for attaching the wheelchair to the arm, wherein the drive mechanism comprises a lifting guide element with a lifting drive for vertically sliding the arm relative to the support column, a sliding guide element with a sliding drive for horizontally sliding the arm relative to the support column for changing radius of rotation of the wheelchair around an axis of the support column when the wheelchair is attached to the attachment, and a rotating guide element with a rotating drive for rotating the arm around the axis of the support column, wherein when viewed in direction of axis of the support column, axis of the sliding guide element is offset from the support column, wherein the drive mechanism further comprises a control unit adapted for operating the lifting drive, the sliding drive, and the rotating drive, wherein the drive mechanism comprises a connecting element that is slidably attached on the support column and moves together with the arm when the arm slides vertically, wherein the arm is slidably attached to the connecting element and the sliding drive is adapted for sliding the arm horizontally relative to the connecting element.