Patent ID: 8672356

Claim:
A wheelchair seatbelt device provided to a wheelchair lifting and transferring device having a platform on which a wheelchair is placed and a lifting and transferring mechanism that is configured to lift-transfer the platform from a getting in/out position in a vehicle exterior to a loading position in a vehicle interior, the device being configured to constrain a body of a wheelchair-sitting person sitting in the wheelchair in a placed condition in which the wheelchair is placed on the platform, the wheelchair seatbelt device, comprising: a wrap belt portion capable of constraining a waist of the wheelchair-sitting person, and a shoulder belt portion having one end that constitutes a waist side support end corresponding to a waist side of the wheelchair-sitting person and the other end that constitutes a shoulder side support end corresponding to a shoulder side of the wheelchair-sitting person, and capable of being extended obliquely from a shoulder to the waist of the wheelchair-sitting person to constrain an upper half of the body of the wheelchair-sitting person, wherein the waist side support end of the shoulder belt portion is supported by a platform side support portion disposed on the platform, wherein the shoulder side support end of the shoulder belt portion is capable of being connected to both of a belt temporary fastening portion disposed on the platform and a final connection support portion disposed in the vehicle interior, and is capable of being temporarily connected to the belt temporary fastening portion when the platform is positioned in the getting in/out position and when the platform is lift-transferred, and wherein when the platform is positioned in the loading position, a connection condition of the shoulder side support end of the shoulder belt portion can be changed from a temporary connection in which it is temporarily connected to the belt temporary fastening portion to a securely supportable connection in which it is connected to the final connection support portion in the vehicle interior.