# US 9,433,549 B2 · Incubator > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,433,549 B2 - Document ID: US9433549B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/221,881 - Filed: 2014-03-21 - Published: 2014-10-02 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2005-12-13 - Assignees: Babybloom Healthcare B.V. - Applicants: Babybloom Healthcare B.V. - Inventors: Heleen Willemsen; Harald Nicolaas Laurentius Conneman; Richard Hendrik Marc Goossens; Annemieke Geertje Christine van Boeijen - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9433549B2 ## CPC - A61G 11/00: Baby-incubators; Couveuses - A61G 11/002: {height-adjustable patient support} - A61G 11/009: {with hand insertion windows, e.g. in the walls} - A61G: TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N1/00) ## Abstract An incubator comprising a support and, mounted on the support, a patient-receiving unit provided with a cover, the cover being provided with means such as access openings for treating a patient, and wherein the patient-receiving unit is coupled with a heating element and/or a humidifying element via a conduit or conduits for heated and/or humidified air, which are equipped with a pump, wherein the pump, the heating element and/or the humidifying element are located in a foot of the support, and the conduit or conduits for heated and/or humidified air run between the foot and the patient-receiving unit, and in that the support is located substantially to one side of the patient-receiving unit, so as to leave a free legroom below the patient-receiving unit. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An incubator comprising: an upright support; a patient receiving unit mounted to the support, said patient receiving unit including a patient supporting structure and a transparent cover positioned over a child supporting structure; a light shade to be positioned on an outside over the transparent cover to shield the patient receiving unit from ambient light; and a suspension member located above the cover of the patient receiving unit and connected to the support, the light shade being fastened to said suspension member; and wherein the light shade comprises shade sections, said shade sections each being movable between a covering state to cover a part of the cover of the patient receiving unit and a non-covering state to uncover said part of the cover of the patient receiving unit; and wherein the shade sections include at least a layer formed of a foamed plastics material. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The incubator according to claim 1, wherein the light shade is height adjustable along the support. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The incubator according to claim 1, wherein the light shade has a top side attached to the suspension member, said shade sections being attached at said top side by hinging attachments allowing the movement of the shade sections between said covering state and non-covering state. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The incubator according to claim 1, wherein one or more of said shade sections are movable independently from the other shade sections. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The incubator according to claim 1, wherein the patient receiving unit and the light shade are adjustable in height along the support independently of each other. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The incubator according to claim 5, wherein the patient receiving unit and the light shade are interlockable so as to be adjustable in height together. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The incubator according to claim 1, wherein the shade sections include multiple layers of a foamed plastics material. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The incubator according to claim 7, wherein at least two of said multiple layers comprise a different foam structure. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The incubator according to claim 7, wherein said multiple layers comprise at least an inner layer that in use faces the cover of the incubator receiving unit and an outer layer that in use faces away from the cover of the incubator receiving unit. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The incubator according to claim 9, wherein the outer layer has a higher density than the inner layer. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The incubator according to claim 9, wherein the inner layer has a lower density than the outer layer. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The incubator according to claim 9, wherein the outer layer has the highest rigidity of all the layers of a multilayer structure. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The incubator according to claim 1, wherein the shade sections have a surface skin layer. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The incubator according to claim 11, wherein the foam structure has an open cell structure or a closed cell structure.