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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Design of a Switchable Double-Action Manual/Electric Wheel-chair with an Auxiliary Driving Wheel

Chen, Jin-hwan 23 July 2004 (has links)
In the wheelchair family, a manual wheelchair is most commonly used by the lower-limb disabled, while its manual mode creates the lowest mechanical effi-ciency and the highest rate of upper-limb injury. Electric wheelchairs on the market are much more labor-saved; however, with their drive systems mostly combining with the bodies of the wheelchair, electric wheelchairs appear to be bulky and are not easily-carried. While in a limited space, on a short-distance moving, or in/off the elevator, electric wheelchairs cannot be practicably switched to manual ones. Thus, this text aims to develop a switchable dou-ble-action manual/electric wheelchair with an auxiliary driving wheel, expect-ing to increase the mechanical efficiency and not to enlarge the body of the wheelchair; the module-disassembled drive system is intended for the conven-ience of carrying. Besides, in order to keep both the manual and the electric functions, the caster contains a set of separable orientation control system, while enables the caster to be switched in both the modes of 360-degree rotation and of being controlled by the user. In this way, the use of the wheelchair would be-come much more multiple-choice.

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