EP0113149B1 - Système autonome de mise à l'abri et de climatisation pour lits - Google Patents

Système autonome de mise à l'abri et de climatisation pour lits Download PDF

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EP0113149B1
EP0113149B1 EP83201831A EP83201831A EP0113149B1 EP 0113149 B1 EP0113149 B1 EP 0113149B1 EP 83201831 A EP83201831 A EP 83201831A EP 83201831 A EP83201831 A EP 83201831A EP 0113149 B1 EP0113149 B1 EP 0113149B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G10/00—Treatment rooms or enclosures for medical purposes
    • A61G10/02—Treatment rooms or enclosures for medical purposes with artificial climate; with means to maintain a desired pressure, e.g. for germ-free rooms
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C21/00—Attachments for beds, e.g. sheet holders, bed-cover holders; Ventilating, cooling or heating means in connection with bedsteads or mattresses
    • A47C21/04—Devices for ventilating, cooling or heating
    • A47C21/042—Devices for ventilating, cooling or heating for ventilating or cooling
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C29/00—Nets for protection against insects in connection with chairs or beds; Bed canopies
    • A47C29/003—Bed canopies

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  • This invention is concerned with an original system that allows the screening of the external environment from a bed while maintaining sensory contact of the user with that environment. Inside the contained space so created, desired conditions can be regulated at will according to a certain number of variable parameters.
  • bed is used, it should be made clear that the system is applicable to any other piece of furniture suitable to respose or extension, for example, lounge chairs, divans and so on.
  • the principle of the screened bed according to this invention can be considered simply as a more liberal extension of the confined space principle and of its advantages, and so it must overcome the psychological resistance of the possible users with a whole series of requisites which in the case of the incubator, for example, have no importance. Therefore the isolating structure should be as transparent as possible and will be harmonious with the bed underneath, in order to create an aesthetically valid whole. It will be possible to knock down or even to separate the structure from the bed or anyway it will be possible to place the structure in such a position as to leave free access to the bed and not to disturb when not in use, so that the optional use of the screened bed is possible. But the new problems that this bed must deal with are not only psychological in nature; in fact it was created for private use, without any particular external control.
  • the lack of external control means that the user of the screened bed remains an active subject and therefore he should be able to keep a good sensory communication with the outside.
  • the holes allow perception of external sound by the person within, and at the same time the transmission of his or her voice to the outside. This together with the transparency of the structure, completes sensory contact with the external environment, taking also into account that the air suction filter does not hinder the passage of odours.
  • This active position of the user has also other possible consequences such as the location of the control panel, which will be preferably arranged inside the structure, so that it is possible to change the set conditions without coming out from said structure as well as to switch on and off the room light directly from inside the structure. From another point of view, the fact that the screened bed is of common use, provides for its application also to double beds.
  • the screened bed has original solutions also for controlling the climatic factors. Indeed, in the field of the systems using the bed confined space, totally enclosing the user's body, provides not only for heating and humidification like the incubator, but also cooling and dehumidifying of air inside it.
  • the screened bed a competitor of the air cooling systems applied to bedrooms, as it has a lower energy consumption and attains more precise results.
  • the screened bed may be used either to make up for the absence of a normal air conditioning system or to help it by operating together with it, and this is a demonstration of the versatility of use of the present invention.
  • screening of the holes of the bed structure of the present invention may be thicker than what is necessary, it has also the object to allow to make greater holes at the same amount of air exit, with a consequently improved sound passage, thus pointing out another difference between the present invention and the prior patents discussed hereinabove.
  • the screened bed according to the present invention is the only system in the field of those using a confined space for the bed, which encloses the whole body of the user and creates a protected and conditioned space, without hindering however a complete sensory contact to the exterior, but is not finalized for therapeutic purposes and is of common, private use, with all the relevant problems arising from these objects and the consequent measures taken to solve them and set forth in the foregoing paragraphs.
  • the system according to this invention is composed substantially of two principal parts; that-is, a covering and screening structure and a system of climatization and air conditioning.
  • the latter of these can possibly be excluded (or not activated) if it is sufficient for the subject to be simply screened from the external environment.
  • the covering structure made of transparent material, which can be either flexible or rigid, functions in isolating the inner environment so created from the external one. It is equipped with holes for communication and air exchange, emitting the vitiated air and filtering and conditioning the entering air by way of a special noiseless ventilator; in this way an unperceptible inner pressure, encouraging air exchange, is created.
  • a special noiseless ventilator in this way an unperceptible inner pressure, encouraging air exchange, is created.
  • a fundamental characteristic of the structure is its ability to be knocked down or positioned in other way when desired, allowing the screened bed's alternative use.
  • This screened bed moreover, has an electrically run conditioning system which is automatically controlled and may be regulated by the user.
  • the principal factors subject to regulation are temperature and humidity, which once set up, will not change with external variations thanks to a control which monitors the system '(through sensors placed inside the structure) and adjusts it accordingly.
  • the smallness of the space created for the structure also allows for air ionization control.
  • the air-conditioning unit for the screened bed may also exclude one or more of its components, such as the humidifier, according to the user's requirements as well as to the conditions and places of use.
  • the ventilator's intake filter would prevent access to the interior by insects, dust and other possible polluting agents.
  • this screened bed may be especially efficacious during a child's first years, because the isolating structure could avoid an eventual fall from bed; also because a small child ignores the psychological resistance determined by living in a limited space; and finally because the small child is particularly sensitive to less than optimal climatic conditions.
  • the version consists of two "half-shells" 1 and 2, made of a transparent material and mounted upon a normal bed 3, which has two lateral interstices 4, for the distribution of conditioned air that arrives from a module 5, mounted under the bed.
  • the two "half-shells” can be knocked down and placed into special guides 6, provided for their containment under the bed.
  • the two ends 7 and 8 of the screening structure are equipped with hinges 9, for their disassembly so that with the bed open the entire screening structure is knocked down and does not create an obstacle to movement and the preparation of the bed.
  • the conditioned air circulating in the interstices 4 is diffused within the enclosed space through passage holes 13 placed at the bed side center, and holes 14 at the foot of the bed.
  • the ends 7 and/or 8 have screened holes 15, for air exchange, while other symmetrical screen holes 16 are provided on the half-shells 1 and 1 at pillow height in order to facilitate acoustical communication.
  • These latter holes 16 may be provided with a mechanism such as a little gate, in order that the user may close them partially or totally, with a consequent reduction of sound transmission.
  • the two covers 20 and 21, each in the shape of a half open fan. They are made of a flexible material supported by a ribbed framework 22 and 23, and mounted here as well upon a normal bed 24, which has two interstices 25 along its sides for the distribution of conditioned air coming from a module 26, mounted under the bed.
  • the two covers 20 and 21, can be closed precisely like a fan and when in folded position they remain below the level of the mattress.
  • handles 27 are provided, and these can be fastened with any convenient method.
  • the conditioned air circulating in the interstices 25, is diffused within the enclosed space through passage holes 28, placed at the bed side center and holes 29 at the foot of the bed.
  • the covers 20 and 21, have upper screened hole 30, for air exchange, as well as other screened holes 31, placed on the bed sides at pillow height to facilitate acoustic communication with the outside.
  • a possible variant of this system consists of a screen structure e.g. formed by covers 20a and 21 a, but it could also have a different profile, erected around the bed rather than mounted upon it.
  • Another variation is represented by the air conditioning module 26A, placed outside of the entire structure, which could be used to serve different beds contemporaneously.
  • Another useful variant that could be applied to each of the embodiments so far illustrated consists of a curved tube 33, to be inserted into the air passage holes 14 or 29 (those located at the foot of the bed).
  • the tube in turn, has its own air outlet holes 34, on its upper part. This allows the use of blankets, although they are not necessary due to the climatic controls included in the structure, because in this way said blankets cannot cover the outlet holes for the conditioned air.
  • short pieces of tube shaped like the wind-sail of a ship could be provided.

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1. Structure de mise à l'abri (1, 2, 20, 21) en combinaison avec un meuble (3) destiné à supporter un utilisateur, par exemple un lit, le meuble étant pourvu d'une unité de conditionnement d'air (5, 26, 26A) qui délivre de l'air à l'intérieur de la structure, la structure étant réalisée en un matériau transparent et montée sur le meuble de manière à entourer l'utilisateur, caractérisée en ce que des trous (15, 16; 30, 31) sont prévus dans la structure qui permettent la sortie de l'air utilisé hors de la structure et ayant une surface d'ouverture telle qu'elle permettent la communication acoustique par l'utilisateur, sans détriure l'effet de conditionnement d'air.
2. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce qu'au moins deux des trous (16, 31) de la structure sont arrangés symétriquement sur les côtés de la structure à hauteur de l'oreiller, pour faciliter la communication acoustique avec l'extérieur.
3. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les trous (15, 16; 30, 31) sont munis de mécanismes tels que des petites portes, pour permettre leur obturation totale ou partielle.
4. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les trous (15, 16; 30, 31) sont munis de tamis pour empêcher l'entrée des insectes.
5. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que la structure (1, 2; 20, 21; 20A, 21 A) est mobile en vue de laisser un libre accès au lit.
6. Combination selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la structure entière (20, 21) ou une partie de la structure peut être détachée du lit de manière à être stockée ou utilisée sur un lit différent.
7. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que la structure (1, 2; 20, 21) est montée sur le pied du meuble qu'elle enferme.
8. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que la structure (20A, 21A) est placée sur le sol autour du meuble qu'elle enferme avec ou sans attache de liaison audit meuble.
9. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce qu'elle est pourvue d'un panneau de commande pour l'unité de conditionnement d'air, et d'autres commandes auxiliaires éventuelles, de préférence placées à l'intérieur de la structure en vue de leur manoeuvre par l'utilisateur.
10. Combinaison selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que des trous de passage de l'air (34) pour l'unité de conditionnement d'air (5, 26, 26A) sont arrangés sur un tube (23) de délivrance d'air au pied du lit, avec des trous (34) disposés à la partie supérieure de façon à éviter que lesdits trous (34) ne soient accidentellement recouverts.
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IT25043/82A IT1153949B (it) 1982-12-30 1982-12-30 Sistema autonomo di schermatura e climatizzazione per posti letto

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