PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheelchair in which a seat of the wheelchair can be further appropriately and smoothly slid to a bed or the like while a user of the wheelchair is seated thereon.SOLUTION: The wheelchair comprises: a seating part 23 including a seating surface 21 a frame part 1 supporting the seating part 23 a pair of drive wheels 4 positioned at right and left sides of the frame part 1 and a pair of front wheels 6 positioned at a front side of the pair of drive wheels 4. The wheelchair further comprises: drive wheel backward moving means 5 provided to move at least one of the pair of drive wheels 4 backwards rather than the seating part 23 and a seating part lateral slide mechanism part 31 configured by providing a guide part 311 extending laterally in the frame part 1 correspondingly to a guided part 312 provided in the seating part 23 in such a manner that, after any one of the drive wheels 4 is moved backwards by the drive wheel backward moving means 5, the seating part 23 can be slid towards the outside in a lateral direction of the side where the drive wheel 4 is moved.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】車椅子の座席が、車椅子の利用者が座ったままでより適切且つ滑らかにベッド等の方向へスライドできるものを提供する。【解決手段】座面21を備えた座部23と、座部23を支持するフレーム部1と、フレーム部1の左右に位置する一対の駆動輪4と、該一対の駆動輪4の前方に位置する一対の前車輪6とを備える車椅子において、前記一対の駆動輪4の少なくとも一方を座部23より後方へ移動できるように設けられた駆動輪の後退動手段5と、駆動輪の後退動手段5によっていずれか一方の駆動輪4を後方へ移動させた後、駆動輪4が移動された側の左右方向の外側方向へ座部23をスライドできるように、座部23に設けられた被ガイド部312に対応し、フレーム部1に左右方向へ延びるガイド部311が設けられて構成されている座部横スライド機構部31とを具備する。【選択図】図7
