Beds – Bedclothing – And means to facilitate changing thereof
Patent
1984-11-28
1987-03-31
Grosz, Alexander
Beds
Bedclothing
And means to facilitate changing thereof
5469, 137565, 13762418, A61G 704, A47C 2710
Patent
active
046531300
ABSTRACT:
A bedsore preventing apparatus comprises an air mattress having at least two groups of pneumatically expandible and contractible cells respectively communicating with one another in each of the groups, each of said cells in one of the groups being positioned between adjacent ones of the cells in the other group, an air pump for supplying air under a pressure to the cells in each group through each of conduit pipes for the respective groups, and a valve means provided at least in one of the conduit pipes and cyclically actuated for changing over its mode between open and closed modes so that, upon activation of the apparatus, the cells in at least one of the groups sequentially expand and contact to sufficiently change inflation and deflation pattern of the cells of the air mattress for avoiding continuous support at any specific positions of patient's body lying on the mattress and preventing patient's bedsore at such positions.
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Naruse Haruhiko
Senoue Masaharu
Grosz Alexander
Matsushita Electric & Works Ltd.
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