Abstract:
Freely to ride a car for disable people is a major concern represent life freedom not limited to
medical, leisure and work purposes. The current car seat position required of major bending
posture results in load stress on particular part of body such as knee, hip and spine.
Furthermore, totally paralyze patient need to be lift into car seat and most of time ambulance
really needed. This project designed a “Special Rotatable Car Seat” allow the car seat to rotate
ninety degree to the car door allow disable patent freely to be seat. This mechanism designed
to easily adaptable for various type of car. The innovation of rotatable car seat involved steel
tracks and cylindrical bearing. Special Rotatable Car Seat offers solutions not only for disable
people, elderly and muscle joint patients are beneficial hence help them ride a car.
Methodology employed in this project involve design the rotatable structure on fix car seat
frame using large diameter thrust bearing. This solution accommodates market demand
especially for elderly as statistics reported elderly population in Malaysia is expected to
increase to 5.6 million by 2030. Load test carried out to analysed structure design 150kg load.
For further improvement light structure material is suggested to reduce the car load.
