PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheelchair bathing apparatus which reduces a burden on a caregiver by lifting a leg part by requiring no caregivers to help lift the leg part directly and facilitates bathing work.SOLUTION: The wheelchair bathing apparatus includes the seating section including a seat part where a bathing person is seated, the backrest part, and the leg part which is pendent from an end part of the seat part to swing for placing legs of the bathing person and is provided with a leg lifting mechanism for driving to swing the leg part to be horizontal as the seating section is closer to a seating section fixing position.COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT【課題】介護者が直接脚部の持ち上げに介在することなく脚部が持ち上げられることで、介護者の負担が軽減され、入浴作業も容易な車椅子入浴装置を提供することにある。【解決手段】乗座部が、入浴者が座る座部と、背もたれ部と、座部の端部に扇動自在に垂下して設けられ入浴者の足を載置する脚部とを備え、乗座部が乗座固定位置に接近するに従って脚部を扇動させて略水平になるように駆動する脚上機構を設けたことを特徴とする。【選択図】図1
