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With the development of wheelchairs from the traditional push type to the electric type, wheelchair users can complete short trips without the assistance of others and without excessive physical exertion.
The electric wheelchair not only improves the travel speed to a certain extent, but also satisfies the needs of short-distance travel where pushing tires by hand is too laborious and public transportation is too troublesome.
However, as the speed increases, the requirements for the tires used in wheelchairs also increase. Higher speeds not only mean higher wear rates for tires, but also symbolize those accidents that occur on electric vehicles and cars due to tire accidents. will likely occur in the wheelchair and cause bodily harm to the wheelchair user.
In response to this situation, many wheelchair users choose to change tires from pneumatic tires to non-inflatable tires. Compared with pneumatic tires, what are the differences between non-inflatable tires and pneumatic tires when they are assembled on wheelchairs? How to choose when choosing non-inflatable wheelchair tires? Today Aaron is here to do some popular science for you.
1: Maintenance-free and more worry-free, avoiding airless breakdown
Buying tires is just a matter of a moment, and maintaining tires is carried out from the time they are assembled on the vehicle to before they are scrapped. The burden of “maintaining tires” of traditional pneumatic tires will be solved by non-pneumatic tires.
Compared with pneumatic wheelchair tires, the non-inflatable wheelchair tire adopts an inflation-free structure, which completely eliminates the trouble of inflation and saves the time and cost of inflation.
On the other hand, given that wheelchair users have limited mobility, they will be in a more helpless situation when such breakdowns occur. The use of non-inflatable wheelchair tires directly avoids the breakdown caused by the most embarrassing puncture and air leakage of pneumatic tires. The appearance makes wheelchair users more comfortable and worry-free when traveling.
2: It is safer not to blow out tires, improving travel safety
When it comes to tire accidents, the most disconcerting thing is a blown tire. When a pneumatic tire blows out, the air in the inner tube will be deflated acutely. Let the tires cause the vehicle to lose balance due to the loss of air pressure support.
Vehicles driven by manpower such as bicycles and hand-propelled wheelchairs cause less danger when a tire blows out, mainly because they will affect subsequent mobility. After switching to electric drive, the danger caused by tire blowout has also greatly increased. When searching on Baidu, the number of webpages related to [electric wheelchair blowout] is as high as 192,000. It can be seen that the problem of electric wheelchair blowout is not a rare case. .
There is no doubt that changing tires from pneumatic tires to non-inflatable tires is the way to directly solve this potential risk. Non-inflatable tires do not need to be inflated, and naturally there will be no tire blowouts, which is safer.
3:: The choice of air-free tires
After dividing wheelchair tires into pneumatic and non-inflatable, in non-inflatable wheelchair tires, they can also be divided into different structures such as solid and honeycomb.
In the case of the same material, wheelchair tires with a solid structure are heavier, which will be more laborious for hand-pushed wheelchairs, and will affect battery life for electric wheelchairs. The honeycomb structure hollows out multiple honeycomb holes on the carcass to increase the comfort of the tire while reducing the weight of the tire.
Taking YOUHA wheelchair tire as an example, it not only adopts the advantageous honeycomb structure, but also uses environmentally friendly and lightweight TPE material. Compared with the rubber material that is heavy and bumpy, it is prone to frosting, has poor corrosion resistance, and the PU material that is easy to hydrolyze has certain advantages. At the same time, the Nidong wheelchair tire, which takes into account the advantages of material and structure, will be a better choice for wheelchair users.
Post time: Dec-02-2022