PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manually propelled vehicle excellent in functionality and handleability, which requires no device or the like as a transfer aid separately, allows a user to easily transfer between a bed/toilet seat etc. and the vehicle without turning his/her body, whose structure is simple enough for the user to easily use by himself/herself for a long time without any burden on his/her back or lower back even when he/she has damage on his/her spine or the like, and which remarkably reduces burden of a caregiver and a carereceiver (user) and is capable of moving to be used in place of a conventional wheelchair.SOLUTION: The vehicle includes a platform, a side frame vertically provided on both sides of the platform respectively, a drive wheel rotatably arranged on the outside of each of the side frames, a manual driving part connected to the drive wheel, an auxiliary wheel switchably arranged on a lower end of an extended part of the each of the side frames, an elevating mechanism part arranged on the platform, and a trunk support part having a seat on which the user can be seated from a rear side of the platform, and a breast part provided in a coupled manner on the front end of the seat, which moves up and down by the elevating mechanism part.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】別途、移乗のための装置等を用意する必要がなく、利用者が体の向きを変えずに、ベッドや便座等との間で簡単に移乗でき、構造が簡素で一人でも利用可能で、利用者の背中や腰などに負荷を与えることがなく、長時間使用でき、特に脊椎等に損傷がある場合でも無理なく利用可能で、介護者及び被介護者(利用者)の負担を大幅に軽減でき、従来の車椅子の代わりに使用して移動できる機能性、取扱い性に優れた手動式移動車の提供。【解決手段】台部と、台部の両側部にそれぞれ立設された側部フレームと、各々の側部フレームの外側に回動自在に配設された駆動輪と、駆動輪に連結された手動駆動部と、各々の側部フレームの延設部の下端部に転向自在に配設された補助輪と、台部に配設された昇降機構部と、利用者が台部の後方から着座する着座部と着座部の前端側に連設された胸当部とを有し昇降機構部により上下動する体幹支持部と、を備えている。【選択図】図1
