Iura Co., Ltd.

Keiji Yamamoto

Tadashi Iura

Kazuki Mori

Yoshiyuki Tsukamura

A moving device () capable of being operated easily and safely to move a person between various types of beds and chairs by supporting the femoral region and backbone of a person to be moved instead of by suspending the person to be moved by a belt or supporting the axillas and knees of the person, comprising a body frame () having a pair of right and left front wheels () and rear wheels () and having an open rear side, a column () erected on the body frame, a pair of right and left side seat parts () provided on a pair of right and left side arms () fixed to the column, a handrail frame body () fixed to the column and having an open rear side, a backbone supporting part () disposed at the rear of the seat parts, and a lifting mechanism capable of lifting the seat parts vertically, wherein the arms are formed in a crank-shape and connected pivotally to the column through longitudinal shafts positioned at the front of the knees of the person to be moved, and the seat parts are rotated eccentrically from the outside upper side to the inside lower side so as to insert the seat parts into the lower side of the femoral region while bypassing the knee parts of the person to be moved.

Supportive device for handicapped people

Method and apparatus for diametrically expanding a desired part of a metal shaft which can be a rod or a pipe, wherein the apparatus includes a driving rotary section ( ) and a driven rotary section ( ) arranged at a predetermined distance (D), each of the rotary sections ( ) and ( ) including a holder for holding a work, a pressing device ( ) for pressing the work held by the holders along the length of the apparatus, and a biasing device ( ) for declining the axis of the work, so that the work held by the holders at the distance (D) is rotated around its axis, and one of the holders is forced by the pressing device toward the other to carry out the diametral expansion, and then the work is bent back and straightened up.

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Onsen-gun, Japan

Keiji Yamamoto