標準型車椅子用着脱式ティルト機能補助具の開発  [in Japanese] Development of The Tilting Implement That can be Attached in Standard-type Wheelchairs  [in Japanese]

今回、我々は介護者および被介護者に有用な着脱式の車椅子ティルト機能補助具の開発を行った。その結果、任意の角度で車椅子を傾斜させること(ティルト)ができ、体重を体調に合わせ、臀部から背中の部分に到までの様々な部位に圧力を分散させることができ、その分圧も様々な大きさに変化させることができた。また、ティルト状態の車椅子も容易に自力走行できる。さらに、本補助具は標準型車椅子を改造することなく装着できる。すなわち、車椅子を自動車等に収納する際には2分足らずで取り外せ、車椅子は従来どおり折りたたんで搭載し、補助具は携帯することができる。このような着脱可能な標準型車椅子用ティルト機能補助具を開発できた。

We developed the tilting implement for standard-type wheelchairs, which is a useful attachment-and-detachment formula to the care worker and the care worker-ed. Consequently, the implemented wheelchair can have alterable function that is able to incline at arbitrary angles. As a result of it, the central gravity of patient's body weight could be changed variously from buttocks to the back and the protion of pressure of patient's body weight itself could be changed to various sizes too. Moreover, the wheelchair of the tilting state can be carried out easily. Furthermore, a standard-type wheelchair can equip with this implement without converting. Namely, when the implemented wheelchair has to be contained in a vehicle, the tilting implement can remove in not more than 2 minutes, and a wheelchair can be folded up as usual. The removed implement can be carried. We developed such a tilting implement that is removable for a standard type.