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2 Kasım 2010 Salı

Interface Design: Rod-Jack Expansion for Wheelchairs

Before i start, i want to talk about the way i approached to this idea.

I knew that i needed to develop a system that needs such prerequisites:

- Standartized: Which i meant the notion of universality "compability"
- Secure: hardiness
- Applicable: simply "ease of use".. the point i meant with "ease of use" is that the client may cabable of using it by itself.

I developed a system came up to my idea as i realized that its pretty tough for the disableds to get in the train at the stations or to jump on to the pavements with no ramps.





Basically its a Rod & a Jack tool that lets the wheelchair pass over the pits or obstacles spotted on roads.
My system comes to us with two subunits that works one n after the other. It works jointly with eachother.







1) The first part is formed with a foldable telescope stick which you can basically let the front wheels to jump.

2) and the second part that works after the first one is a jack unit that lifts the whole wheelchair and pushes it to the front.
The jack unit also enables the wheelchair to pull itself to higher level grounds.




What you need to do is to defold the handles on the sides, and pulling them to the back side.

Once the front wheels are jumped out, you basically lower the handles and start to push it with short moves like a car jack. Then the wheelchair will be lifted s well as pushed to the front side with a similar system like the first part we see.

Also you can cancel out the lifting process by opening the telescope arms at the sides.

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