Bed
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsHideo Kawakami, Yohei Kume, Tohru Nakamura, Mizuho Sakakibara, Toshihide Ueda
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Abstract
A movable bed of the present invention, which includes a mat portion of a bed to lie thereon, and is composed of a fixed portion and a moving portion, is designed as a wheel chair in such a manner that the moving portion can be separated from or joined to the fixed portion and be transformed from a lying posture state to a sitting posture state, and when the moving portion is joined to the fixed portion so as to form the movable bed, an upper surface of a resting portion, allowing a person to carry thereon, of the moving portion and an inner surface of an armrest portion are configured to form a mat surface of the mat portion of the movable bed.
Claims13
A movable bed comprising:
- a fixed portion;
- and
- a moving portion that is separably joined to the fixed portion, the fixed portion and the moving portion being formed into a mat portion on which a person can lie, wherein
- the moving portion is constructed as a wheel chair having a seat portion and an armrest portion placed on one side of the seat portion so as to be pivotable between an upright posture state and a sideway lying posture state;
- in a state where the moving portion is joined to the fixed portion, the armrest portion of the moving portion is pivoted to the sideway lying posture state so that an upper surface of the seat portion and an upper surface of the armrest portion are formed into a mat surface of the mat portion;
- and
- in a state where the moving portion is separated from the fixed portion, the armrest portion of the moving portion is pivoted to the upright posture state so that the armrest portion forms an armrest of the wheel chair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.