Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic seating and walking wheelchair with an active seat with powerlift to stand
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Application No.: US15583804Application Date: 2017-05-01
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Publication No.: US09855175B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Charles Kenneth Wike, Jr. , Michael Alan Kapp , Richard Michael McEntyre
- Applicant: Active Body, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US GA Sugar Hill
- Assignee: Active Body, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Active Body, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Sugar Hill
- Agency: Grell & Watson Patent Attorneys LLC
- Agent Jeffery C. Watson; Mathew L. Grell
- Main IPC: A61G5/14
- IPC: A61G5/14 ; A61G5/10 ; A61G5/12 ; A61G7/10

Abstract:
A dynamic seating and walking wheelchair includes an active seat and a frame. The active seat is configured to move from a seated position to a standing position. The active seat includes a seat back with an upper end and a lower end, and a seat bottom with a front end and a rear end. The rear end of the seat bottom is rotatable about a movable pivot axis approximate to the lower end of the seat back from the seated position of approximately horizontal to the standing position of approximately vertical. The frame is configured to support the active seat. Wherein, when the active seat moves from a seated position to a standing position, the movable pivot axis moves both up and backwards.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170258653A1 DYNAMIC SEATING AND WALKING WHEELCHAIR WITH AN ACTIVE SEAT WITH POWERLIFT TO STAND Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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