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Industry-University Collaboration to Produce Backpacks that Can Easily Transport People Having Difficulty Evacuating ～Lightweighting was achieved by applying the knowledge of the University of Toyama and Moriroku's manufacturing technology.
Moriroku Technology Company, Ltd. (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Kazuyuki Morita, President; hereinafter "Moriroku"), through an industry-academia collaborative research with Professor Masanori Kawahara (ergonomics and work style) of the University of Toyama, a national university corporation, has produced a "Rescue Back Ride Carrier "Shoyrier -TM ", which can comfortably carry people who have difficulty evacuating in the event of a disaster, etc., on their backs, and donated it to the non-profit organization "Kizuna (Association for Supporting Each Other's Lives in Dohi)" in Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture on November 19, 2011.
Moriroku has been working on development to solve social issues since 2021 under the action guideline of "contributing to society as a good corporate citizen through consideration for the global environment and corporate activities rooted in the community. We have been working on the development of solutions to social issues since 2021. We have come into contact with the research of Professor Kawahara of the University of Toyama on a conveyance device that smoothly and quickly transports people in need of assistance to a safe place in the event of a disaster. We also believe that we can utilize the technology and expertise in supple, lightweight, and strong materials that we have cultivated in the manufacture of automobile interior and exterior parts, and have started joint research on "backpacks that can carry people with less physical burden" from 2022.
There are various ways to transport people who have difficulty evacuating, such as by carrying them on one's back, lending them a shoulder, or pulling them in a rear car. However, in many cases, wheeled tools cannot be used during a disaster, so people are often carried on their backs, which requires more physical strength. Therefore, we have developed "Shoiria," a device that can easily carry a person on its back with little effort, based on the wisdom of the traditional Japanese folk tool called a "backpack. With "Shoiria," you can quickly and safely carry a person on your back, set him or her down, rest, and take turns.
Moriroku, together with Professor Kawahara, created original test requirements for transport equipment by disassembling and investigating walking aids and wheelchairs for the elderly, and also repeated load analysis and modeling, which are common to the design of automobile parts, to make improvements. The donated product, the eighth model since its conception, weighs 6 kg, less than half the total weight of the initial model.
The recipient of the donation, "Kizuna (Association to Support Each Other's Life in Doi)" in Izu City, supports activities to raise disaster awareness among the elderly and help each other in the Doi area, where the population of 3,572 is 1,764 (about 50% elderly) and the population of 65 years old and over is declining and aging. The donated "Shoillia" will be managed at the Doi Home for the Elderly, a special nursing home, and will be prepared for rescue operations in the event of a disaster, such as an earthquake, tsunami, or heavy rain and flooding, which could occur at any time.
Moriroku Technology will continue to apply the technology it has developed to strengthen its social contribution activities to give back to the needs of the community and society.
About Moriroku Technology Company, Ltd.
Moriroku Technology Company, Ltd. provides a full range of services from product planning to design, mold design and maturation, prototyping and testing, and mass production for everything from automotive plastic molded parts to functional parts, and offers products that meet the increasingly complex needs of the automotive industry in terms of quality, cost, and delivery (QCD) with a variety of technologies.