Powered wheelchair having a side-access battery compartment
AssigneePride Mobility Products Corporation
InventorsJohn Puskar-Pasewicz, Kip D. Alder, Philip Hau Leung 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.
Claims18
A powered wheelchair comprising:
- a frame;
- a pair of opposing drives, each drive including a motor and a gearbox, each motor being mounted substantially-transverse to the direction of translation of the wheelchair;
- a pair of central 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 floor, a side opening through which a power supply may be removed, and a lip that extends at least partially into the opening;
- a cover that defines a groove, the cover capable of being configured into a first position in which the cover is generally located over the side opening of the power supply compartment and the lip is inserted into the groove so as to retain the cover over the side opening, and a second position in which the cover is removed from the power supply compartment to enable access thereto;
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- a chair supported on the frame such that the cover is capable of being removed, and the side opening of the compartment is adapted to be accessible for power supply removal without removal of the chair from the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.