Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – With a hoisting – lifting – elevating – or raising device
Patent
1997-07-29
1999-12-28
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
With a hoisting, lifting, elevating, or raising device
5612, 5 811, 5 851, 5 891, A61G 710
Patent
active
060063777
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a patient carrying device for carrying a patient, who cannot freely travel by oneself and keeps laying on the bed, from the bed to the bath, the wheelchair, the toilet or otherwise locations nearby the bed.
The present inventor has previously proposed a bed device for a patient who cannot travel freely from a bed (Japanese Patent Publication No. 4-78,306). As shown in this publication, the bed device comprises locating X-rails 3 and 4 and Y-rails 6 and 7 over a bed 50 and transferring an X-frame 5 and a Y-frame 8 in an X-direction and a Y-direction, respectively, thereby functioning so as to transfer a lifting apparatus 2 for lifting the patient body in the identical direction and allowing the patient to be carried to the bath-tub, the toilet or otherwise locations.
However, as the proposed bed device is structured in such a manner that the patient is allowed to travel to the objective location such as the bath-tub, the toilet, and so on, by transferring the X-frame 5 and the Y-frame 8 in the X-direction and the Y-direction, respectively, the device itself becomes so complicated in structure, large in size and heavy in weight that it is difficult to be disposed in average houses.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a patient carrying device for carrying a patient, which is adapted to use in average houses, compact in size and easy to handle.
Briefly stated, a patient carrying device according to the present invention comprises a first mobile vehicle and a second mobile vehicle movable along rails disposed over a bed, each of the first and second mobile vehicles having a rotating wheel for winding up or down a suspending rope, a first motor for rolling up or down the suspending rope by rotating the rotating is provided wheel, a roller for adjusting a distance W between the suspending rope wound round the rotating wheel of the first mobile vehicle and the suspending rope wound round the rotating wheel of the second mobile vehicle by ratably rolling the roller, a second motor for rotating the roller, and a remote controller for controlling the first motor and the second motor of each of the first mobile vehicle and the second mobile vehicle.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a sickroom.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a mobile vehicle.
FIG. 3 is a side view showing a mobile vehicle.
FIG. 4 is a front view showing a remote control device.
FIG. 5 is a side view showing the action of lifting a patient up from the bed.
FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a sickroom.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention will now be described by w,ay of examples with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a sickroom in a house, a hospital and so on, according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 stands for a bed, reference numeral 2 for a toilet, and reference numeral 3 for a bath-tub, and rails 4 are disposed over these objects. Reference numeral 10A stands for a first mobile vehicle, reference numeral 10B for a second mobile vehicle, and the mobile vehicles being disposed so as to move along the rails 4. The last end portion of the rails 4 constitutes a housing position 5 and the first mobile vehicle 10A and the second mobile vehicle 10B are resting in the housing position 5, when they are not in use. In other words, the housing position 5 is an original position from which the first mobile vehicle 10A and the second mobile vehicle 10B start operating.
FIG. 2 is the sectional view of the first mobile vehicle 10A and FIG. 3 shows the side view thereof. As the second mobile vehicle 10B has the same structure as the first mobile vehicle 10A, a description of the second mobile vehicle 10B will be omitted from the following explanation. Reference numeral 11 stands for a casing within which a first motor 12 and a second motor 13 are located, and reference numeral 14 stands for a rotary shaft di
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Corley Fredrick
Trettel Michael F.
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