PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheelchair wherein the operation state of the brake can be placed under a non-operated state by forcibly releasing the operating state even when a user is not sitting on the wheelchair, and thus, which can easily be moved.SOLUTION: This wheelchair 1 includes: a riding section 2 on which the user rides a frame section 3 which supports the riding section a wheel section 4 which is arranged on the frame section, and turns upon moving a braking section 10 for braking the turning of the wheel section and a displacement section 33 which switches the braking section between the braking state and the non-braking state. The riding section is constituted to change in response to the sitting state or the non-sitting state of the user. The displacement section is displaced conforming to the change of the riding section. The braking section is constituted to be switched between the braking state and the non-braking state by the displacement. Additionally, the wheelchair 1 is equipped with a displacement control section 32 which can make the displacement section displaced regardless of the change of the riding section.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】利用者が車椅子に座っていない場合でも、ブレーキの作動状態を強制的に解除して非作動状態にすることができ、これにより、容易に移動させることできる車椅子を提供すること。【解決手段】利用者が乗車する乗車部2と、この乗車部を支持するフレーム部3と、このフレーム部に配置され、移動に際し回動する車輪部4と、この車輪部の回動を制動するための制動部10と、この制動部を制動状態又は非制動状態に切り替える変位部33と、を有し、乗車部は、利用者の着座状態又は非着座状態に基づいて変化する構成となっており、変位部は、乗車部の変化に基づいて変位し、この変位によって制動部が、制動状態又は非制動状態に切り替わる構成となっていると共に、変位部を乗車部の変化にかかわらず変位させることができる変位制御部32を備える車椅子1。【選択図】図7
