A high-end wheelchair for kids

A high-end wheelchair for kids

Oosterhuis, D.S.

Molenbroek, J.F.M. (mentor)
Thomassen, E.W. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design

Master of Science Integrated Product Design

2012-05-04

Subject of this graduation project is a manually propelled wheelchair for children, intended for daily use over a period of multiple years. Products like this are in general reimbursed by local governments which has resulted in a complex and static market situation with numerous stakeholders. A completely unconventional paediatric wheelchair design has been developed that integrally solves the major problems in the current market situation that are faced by stakeholders of paediatric wheelchairs (being end-users, manufacturers, distributors, therapists and (local) governments). Key of the design is an intelligent adjustment principle based on detailed research of anthropometric data regarding growth and correlation of body dimensions combined with a critical market analysis. The research outcomes have been translated into a product design that is suitable for industrialized series-/ mass production. A fully functional prototype of the design was build.

wheelchair
children
growth
anthropometry

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:867ae669-99e2-45b1-8fd2-ea2566713f31

2014-05-04

Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2012 Oosterhuis, D.S.