Nursing bed and shape change method thereof
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiko Hashimoto
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Abstract
To provide a nursing bed capable of preventing bedsores of a care receiver while minimizing a burden on the body of the care receiver when changing posture. A nursing bed with a longitudinal dimension and a width dimension has an upper surface forming member which forms a bed upper surface on which a care receiver lies and a driving mechanism configured to move at least a portion of the upper surface forming member. The bed upper surface includes a curved surface which is curved downwardly in the width direction.
Claims11
A nursing bed with a dimension in a longitudinal direction and a dimension in a width direction, comprising:
- an upper surface forming member which forms a bed upper surface on which a care receiver lies;
- a driving mechanism configured to move at least a portion of the upper surface forming member;
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- a robot arm,
- wherein the bed upper surface includes a curved surface which is curved downwardly in the width direction,
- wherein the driving mechanism is configured so that a rotational driving force is transmitted from a rotational driver mounted on a distal end portion of the robot arm,
- wherein the driving mechanism has a plurality of rotated drivers which are selectively and separatably connected to the rotational driver, the plurality of rotated drivers being respectively installed corresponding to mutually different moving motions in the upper surface forming member, and
- wherein the robot arm is configured to move in both left-right and up-down directions so as to allow the rotational driver to engage with any of the plurality of rotated drivers.
A shape change method of a nursing bed, wherein the nursing bed comprises an upper surface forming member which forms a bed upper surface on which a care receiver lies, a driving mechanism configured to move at least a portion of the upper surface forming member, and a robot arm, the driving mechanism being configured so that a rotational driving force is transmitted from a rotational driver mounted on a distal end portion of the robot arm and having a plurality of rotated drivers which are selectively and separatably connected to the rotational driver, the plurality of rotated drivers being respectively installed corresponding to mutually different moving motions in the upper surface forming member, the rotational driver driving the plurality of rotated drivers in a predetermined order, the robot arm configured to move in both left-right and up-down directions so as to allow the rotational driver to engage with any of the plurality of rotated drivers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.