JP3115433U - Auxiliary equipment with lighting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an assisting device with a lighting device that enables an elderly person or an injured person who needs an assisting device such as a cane to walk safely on a dark night road.
SOLUTION: A lighting device that includes a long member 4 having a constant or variable length, and illuminates the periphery of the end of the long member 4 at or near the end on the grounding side in the length direction. A device 10 is provided.
[Effects] Elderly people and injured persons who need an assistive device such as a cane to walk can safely walk on dark nights.
[Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an auxiliary tool such as a walking stick or a crutch, and more particularly to an auxiliary tool with a lighting device that can illuminate a traveling direction, a foot, or the like and can walk safely on a dark night road.

  Elderly people and injured persons who need assistive devices such as walking sticks when walking can deal with such a situation of drought if other passersby or traveling vehicles approach suddenly. In fact, there is a risk of not only contacting or colliding with such other passers-by or traveling vehicles, but also causing the balance to fall or fall over in order to avoid contact or collision.

  For this reason, elderly people and injured persons who need assistive devices such as walking sticks when walking need to pay attention to the surrounding circumstances, and to prevent the occurrence of such habits. It was necessary for other passers-by and traveling vehicles to reliably recognize their existence. Also, elderly people and injured persons who need assistive devices such as walking sticks had to pay attention to their feet and the ground contact position of the walking sticks so that they would not lose balance or fall while walking. .

  However, elderly people and injured persons who need assistive devices such as walking sticks cannot make other passers-by or traveling vehicles fully aware of their existence on dark night roads, etc., so other passers-by Or traveling vehicles suddenly approach without being noticed. In such a case, the risk of contact or collision with other passers-by or traveling vehicles only increases. In addition, there is a problem that the risk of losing balance or falling when the contact or collision is avoided increases.

  In addition, elderly people and injured persons who need assistive devices such as walking sticks can not fully check these even if there are undulations at their feet or ground contact points on a dark night road. There is a problem that there is a risk of breaking or falling.

  Therefore, in view of the above problems, the present invention provides an auxiliary device with a lighting device that enables an elderly person or an injured person who needs an auxiliary tool such as a cane to walk safely on a dark night road. It is an object to do.

In order to solve the above problems, the auxiliary device with lighting device according to the present invention is:
A long member having a constant or variable length;
An illuminating device for illuminating the periphery of the end portion is provided at the end of the long member on the grounding side in the length direction or in the vicinity of the end.

Moreover, in order to solve the said subject, the auxiliary tool with a lighting device by this invention is the following.
It has a long member whose length is constant or variable,
A lighting device that emits light in a direction substantially perpendicular to the length direction of the long member is provided at the end of the long member opposite to the end on the grounding side in the length direction. It is characterized by.

In addition, the auxiliary equipment with lighting equipment according to the present invention is
An anti-slip portion is provided at the end of the long member on the grounding side,
The anti-slip portion is formed to have a ground contact area larger than a cross-sectional area perpendicular to the length direction of the long member.

  According to such an assisting device with a lighting device of the present invention, an elderly person or an injured person who needs an assisting device such as a cane to walk can safely walk on a dark night road or the like.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of an auxiliary tool with a lighting device according to the present invention will be specifically described based on the drawings.
FIG.1 and FIG.2 is a figure referred in order to demonstrate the cane 2 with lighting equipment (equivalent to the auxiliary tool with lighting equipment) which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the walking stick with lighting device 2 according to the present embodiment includes a long member 4 having a certain length and one end portion (upper end portion in the figure) of the long member 4. In addition, a handle 6 formed integrally with the long member 4 is provided. The handle 6 is provided such that the length direction thereof faces in a direction substantially perpendicular to the length direction of the long member 4. In addition, the walking stick with lighting device 2 is provided with a non-slip portion 8 made of rubber at the end of the long member 4 opposite to the handle 6 (the end on the ground side, the lower end in the figure). .

  The non-slip portion 8 is formed such that its diameter dimension (dimension D1 in FIGS. 1 and 2) is larger than the diameter dimension of the long member 4 (dimension D2 in FIGS. 1 and 2). . Therefore, the anti-slip portion 8 is grounded in an area larger than the cross-sectional area of the long member 4.

  Moreover, the wand 2 with an illumination device is provided with the 1st illumination device 10, the 2nd illumination device 12, and the 3rd illumination device 14, as shown in FIG. The first lighting device 10 constitutes a part of the long member 4, and is provided at a position near the anti-slip portion 8 in the length direction of the long member 4.

  The first lighting device 10 includes a light-transmitting cylindrical light-transmitting member 16 and a light source 18 disposed inside the light-transmitting member 16. The outer diameter of the light-transmitting member 16 is as follows. The diameter of the long member 4 other than the translucent member 16 is the same as the diameter (dimension D2 in FIG. 1). As the light source 18, a miniature light bulb, an LED (light emitting diode) or the like is used. Since the first lighting device 10 has such a structure, when the first lighting device 10 is turned on, its surroundings are illuminated.

  Each of the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14 is provided at both ends of the handle 6 in the length direction. Each of the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14 includes a translucent member 20 having translucency and a light source 22 disposed inside the translucent member 20. The translucent member 20 of each of the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14 has a cylindrical shape and is formed so that both outer end surfaces in the length direction of the handle 6 are closed.

  In each of the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14, the light transmitted through the closed end face of the translucent member 20 is substantially parallel to the length direction of the handle 6, that is, the wand 2 with the lighting device. Light is emitted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the length direction (arrows A and B in FIG. 1).

  The first lighting device 10, the second lighting device 12, and the third lighting device 14 operate the buttons 24 a and 24 b of the switch 24 provided at a position near the handle 6 in the length direction of the long member 4. By switching between ON and OFF, each lighting device can be turned on or off.

  According to the cane 2 with the illumination device according to the present embodiment, the first illumination device 10 brightly illuminates the feet or the grounding position of the cane 2 with the illumination device, and the second illumination device 12. Since the light emitted from the third lighting device 14 is surely recognized by other passers-by and traveling vehicles, etc., elderly people and injured persons using the walking stick 2 with the lighting device are safe even in a dark night road. Can walk to.

  Moreover, since the cane 2 with the illumination device according to the present embodiment can illuminate the second illumination device 12 or the third illumination device 14 in the traveling direction, for example, even during walking, a dark night road or the like But you can walk safely.

  Further, in a conventional cane (not shown), even if a rubber non-slip member is provided at the end on the ground side in the length direction, the ground contact area of the anti-slip member is the same as that of the anti-slip member. The cane 2 with the lighting device according to the present embodiment is not slippery, whereas the cane 2 with the lighting device according to the present embodiment is slippery because the cross-sectional area of the long members adjacent to each other in the length direction of the cane is formed to be almost the same size. Since the contact area of the portion 8 is formed so as to be larger than the cross-sectional area of the long member 4, the anti-slip effect can be improved.

  Next, a crutch 30 with lighting equipment (corresponding to an auxiliary tool with lighting equipment) according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In the crutch 30 with lighting equipment shown in this figure, the same parts as those of the walking stick with lighting equipment 2 according to the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description of the same configuration is omitted. It shall be.

  Moreover, as shown in FIG. 3, the long member 40 of the crutch 30 with the lighting device according to the present embodiment is formed in a rod shape from the long member 4 of the cane 2 with the lighting device according to the first embodiment. Although it is formed in a pine needle shape unlike the above, it is a part that plays the same role as the long member 4 according to the first embodiment, and hence is also referred to as a long member 40.

  The crutch 30 with lighting device according to the present embodiment is sandwiched between the armpit of the user of the crutch 30 with lighting device at the end portion (upper end portion in the figure) opposite to the anti-slip portion 8 in the length direction. The support member 32 is provided. The support member 32 has a length in a direction substantially perpendicular to the length direction of the long member 40, and the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14 are provided at both ends thereof.

  According to the crutch 30 with the lighting device according to the present embodiment, the first lighting device 10 brightens the feet and the ground contact position of the crutch 30 with the lighting device, as in the first embodiment. Since the light emitted from the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14 is surely recognized by other passers-by and traveling vehicles, the crutch 30 with the lighting device is used. Older people, injured persons, etc. who can use can walk safely on dark night roads.

  In addition, the crutch 30 with a lighting device according to the present embodiment is such that when the support member 32 is sandwiched between the armpits in use, the length direction of the support member 32 is necessarily directed substantially in the traveling direction. Since the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14 emit light substantially in the traveling direction, an elderly person or an injured person who uses the crutch 30 with the lighting device can safely walk on a dark night road or the like. .

  Further, even if a conventional crutch (not shown) is provided with a rubber non-slip member at the end on the ground side in the length direction, the ground contact area of the anti-slip member is the same as that of the anti-slip member. The crutch 30 with lighting equipment according to the present embodiment was slippery because it was formed with approximately the same size as the cross-sectional area of adjacent long members, whereas the crutch 30 with lighting equipment according to the present embodiment is similar to the first embodiment, Since the ground contact area of the anti-slip portion 8 is formed to be larger than the cross-sectional area of the long member 40, the anti-slip effect can be improved.

  In addition, the cane 2 with the lighting device and the crutch 30 with the lighting device according to the first and second embodiments are provided with the anti-slip portion 8 at the end on the grounding side in the length direction, and the first Although the lighting device 10 is provided at a position near the anti-slip portion 8 in the long member 4, the anti-slip portion 8 is not provided, and the first lighting device 10 is arranged in the length direction of the long member 4. You may make it provide in the edge part by the side of grounding.

  Further, in the cane 2 with the lighting device and the crutch 30 with the lighting device according to the first and second embodiments, the first lighting device 10 is provided at a position near the anti-slip portion 8 in the long member 4. However, the long member 4 may be provided at a substantially central position in the length direction or a position near the handle 6 or the support member 32.

  In the first and second embodiments, each of the first lighting device 10, the second lighting device 12, and the third lighting device 14 is “lighted” by switching the switch 20 from OFF to ON. However, it may be “flashing”.

  Moreover, although each of the cane 2 with lighting equipment and the crutch 30 with lighting equipment according to the first and second embodiments has the same length of the long members 4 and 40, the long member A mechanism for adjusting the length of 4, 40 may be provided to make the length variable.

  Further, in each of the walking stick 2 with lighting equipment and the crutch 30 with lighting equipment according to the first and second embodiments, the handle 6 and the support member 32 are provided integrally with the long members 4 and 40. However, it may be detachably provided on them.

  Further, in each of the wand 2 with lighting equipment and the crutch 30 with lighting equipment according to the first and second embodiments, the non-slip portion 8 is made of a material having a high friction coefficient in addition to a rubber material. Any other material such as plastic may be used.

  Moreover, in each of the walking stick with lighting device 2 and the crutch 30 with lighting device according to the first and second embodiments, all of the first lighting device 10, the second lighting device 12, and the third lighting device 14 are provided. However, only the first lighting device 10 or only the second lighting device 12 and the third lighting device 14 may be provided.

  Further, the present invention is not limited to the first and second embodiments, but based on the same technical idea, the walking stick with lighting equipment according to the first and second embodiments. Needless to say, the present invention can also be applied to other forms of canes, crutches, or other auxiliary tools other than 2 and the crutch 30 with lighting equipment.

It is a front view which shows the cane 2 with the illuminating device which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view which shows the cane 2 with an illumination device which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which shows the crutch 30 with a lighting equipment which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 Cane with lighting equipment 4 Long member 6 Handle 8 Non-slip part 10 1st lighting equipment 12 2nd lighting equipment 14 3rd lighting equipment 16 Translucent member 18 Light source 20 Translucent member 22 Light source 24 Switch 24a, 24b Button 30 Illumination Crutch with equipment 32 support member 40 long member

Claims (3)

A long member having a constant or variable length;
An auxiliary device with a lighting device, characterized in that a lighting device for illuminating the periphery of the end portion is provided at or near the end portion on the grounding side in the length direction of the long member. A long member having a constant or variable length;
A lighting device that emits light in a direction substantially perpendicular to the length direction of the long member is provided at the end of the long member opposite to the end on the grounding side in the length direction. Auxiliary equipment with lighting equipment. An anti-slip portion is provided at the end of the long member on the ground side,
The auxiliary device with lighting equipment according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the anti-slip portion is formed to have a ground contact area larger than a cross-sectional area perpendicular to the length direction of the long member. Ingredients.

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