Nursing bed
AssigneeYuasa Kikai Inc.
InventorKatsuo Enai
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a nursing bed capable of reducing or preventing occurrence of lumbago of a care worker during a care work. The nursing bed includes a frame part having wheels, a bed part disposed within the frame part, and an elevator. A bed body which is a core part of the bed part has four wheels provided on a back surface opposing to a floor surface. The elevator lowers the bed body in a second direction according to a command from a remote control until the wheels of the bed body are loosely fitted in slots of two rails disposed on the floor surface, and contact the floor surface. Then, the bed part slides along the floor surface to outside of the nursing bed. Moreover, the elevator raises the bed body upwardly from the floor surface in the second direction according to the command from the remote control.
Claims1
A nursing bed, comprising:
- a frame part forming a frame of the nursing bed and including a bottom part where a plurality of second wheels are disposed, the second wheels always contacting a floor surface during use and being rotatable and movable on the floor surface;
- a bed body forming a base bottom part of a bed part disposed above the floor surface within the frame part in the floor surface in a top view when a care receiver lies thereon, and including a first wheel on a back surface opposing to the floor surface within the frame part;
- an elevator configured to support the bed body and lower the bed body until the first wheel of the bed body located above the floor surface within the frame part contacts the floor surface within the frame part;
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- a rail laid on a part of the floor surface directly below the bed body in a short-side direction of the bed body, and including a penetrating slot extending in the short-side direction, wherein
- when the bed body where the care receiver lies is lowered by a drive of the elevator and the first wheel contacts the floor surface within the frame part, the elevator cancels the support of the bed body to separate the bed body from the frame part,
- the bed body translates, according to the rotation of the first wheel outwardly in the short-side direction of the bed body, from a position above the floor surface within the frame part to a position above the floor surface that is one of outside positions of the frame part in the short-side direction of the bed body,
- while the entirety of the bed body is lowered and translated to the one of outside positions of the frame part, the plurality of second wheels of the frame part and the frame part are in a stopped state, and
- the first wheel is fitted in the penetrating slot when the first wheel of the lowered bed body contacts the floor surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.