Wheelchair with tiltable seat
CA 2311934 C · Owner: Mundy, Phil · Inventors: Delorme, Matt; Mundy, Phil; Balcom, Nancy
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A wheelchair with a tiltable seat locates the tilt fulcrum between 3 and 7 inches from the front edge of the seat pan and between 1 and 4 inches below the surface of the seat pan. This minimizes the elevation of the rider's knees when in a tilted position and allows for more stability and a shorter wheel base. Manual self-tilting is facilitated by a gas strut arrangement disposed on brackets below the seat pan and operated by a rider-controlled valve.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 19, 2000 and granted August 21, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 19, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 19, 2022.
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