EP0824018A2 - Lit d'hÔpital avec fauteuil roulant intégré - Google Patents

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EP0824018A2
EP0824018A2 EP97114098A EP97114098A EP0824018A2 EP 0824018 A2 EP0824018 A2 EP 0824018A2 EP 97114098 A EP97114098 A EP 97114098A EP 97114098 A EP97114098 A EP 97114098A EP 0824018 A2 EP0824018 A2 EP 0824018A2
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61GTRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
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    • A61G7/10Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto
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    • A61G7/1019Vertical extending columns or mechanisms
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    • A61GTRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G5/00Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
    • A61G5/006Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs convertible to stretchers or beds
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    • A61G7/00Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
    • A61G7/002Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons having adjustable mattress frame
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    • A61G7/05Parts, details or accessories of beds
    • A61G7/053Aids for getting into, or out of, bed, e.g. steps, chairs, cane-like supports
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    • A61GTRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
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    • A61G7/16Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto converting a lying surface into a chair
    • A61G7/165Chair detachable from bed
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    • A61G2200/00Information related to the kind of patient or his position
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    • A61G5/00Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
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    • A61G5/021Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs propelled by the patient or disabled person having particular propulsion mechanisms
    • A61G5/023Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs propelled by the patient or disabled person having particular propulsion mechanisms acting directly on hubs or axis
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • A61GTRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
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    • A61G5/024Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs propelled by the patient or disabled person having particular operating means
    • A61G5/026Cranks or hand wheels
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    • A61G7/05Parts, details or accessories of beds
    • A61G7/053Aids for getting into, or out of, bed, e.g. steps, chairs, cane-like supports

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  • the invention relates to a hospital or nursing bed according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a sick or nursing bed known from DE 195 29 813 A1
  • the invention is based on a bed frame and mattress recess adapted wheelchair with its seat frame and laid flat Fully integrate the back frame.
  • this care bed is e.g. paralyzed, but otherwise agile patient in the Able to lie on the bed with no care aid towards the padded seat frame move to raise the back frame and after lowering the bed and unlock the wheelchair with this to leave the bed.
  • the Handling an immobile patient is facilitated by the nurse sets it up on the padded seat frame, then pulls it through supports the backrest to drive it away after unlocking the wheelchair.
  • the invention has for its object a hospital or nursing bed as a known presupposed way to further develop and improve that an inexpensive wheelchair is convenient and complete can be integrated into the hospital or nursing bed in particular if it has a simple drive device that differs from one more patient with his arm strength easily operated.
  • the proposed drive device on the wheelchair is due to its simple Construction particularly inexpensive, so that the purchase of a hospital bed with an integrated wheelchair that can be driven by the patient it is affordable and the patient can move freely brings great advantages.
  • the drive according to the invention is particularly useful the fact that the size of the wheels the seat frame height must not exceed so that the wheelchair with the bed frame lowered can be inserted into the recess without any problems. Because of that predetermined largest impeller diameter is generally not sufficient to To be grasped sufficiently comfortably by the wheelchair user is invented a manually movable, to the side of and above the seat frame detectable drive part proposed, the coupling or transmission means at least temporarily with the wheel to move the Wheelchair engages.
  • the drive part will be from its active position above the seat frame in a rest position below the seat or laid flat Back frame adjusted.
  • the wheels can be reached at a suitable height by the wheelchair user Gripping wheels can be driven, each on a side on or under the seat frame mounted shaft are attachable and detachable, the shaft via gears or rollers and a (toothed) belt drive with the impeller communicates.
  • the gripper wheels after the Wheelchair partially retracted into the recess, removed from its shafts and set aside, for example in a side of the bed intended recording.
  • the shafts carrying the gripping wheels can each have one the axis of the wheels swivel lever be mounted on or in the the belt drive is guided or encapsulated to the impeller hub, the lever from a lockable wheelchair intended for driving Active position can be moved into a rest position, in the gripping wheel and lever, also in the case of a gripping wheel removed from it, below the seat frame height are located.
  • the manually movable drive part consists of one on the Impeller shaft pivotally mounted drive rod with an attached Friction block, which is parallel by adjusting / bending the drive rod comes into frictional engagement with the wheel axle with a disk fixed to the wheel and moves the impeller while pivoting the drive rod.
  • the friction block attached to the drive rod have spring means that a cover fixed to the wheelchair frame is supported.
  • the drive rod can be direct or through one at the end of the guide slot arranged through angled guide link be movable into a flat or flat inclined rest position without that To prevent the wheelchair from entering the recess.
  • a handle or eyelet can be attached to the side of the back frame be, through which he directly or indirectly by means of a tension belt between the flat or raised position is adjustable.
  • the hospital or nursing bed with integrable wheelchair comprises a bed frame formed by longitudinal and transverse beams 32, 34 10, the by 16 supported on a base frame 12 is adjustable in height.
  • Head and foot sections 10a, 10b of the bed frame 10 support head or foot sections 18a, 18b of a mattress frame for head and foot sections 14a and 14b of a mattress lying thereon.
  • Bed frame, mattress and mattress frame are between their head and Foot ends through a recess that extends across the entire width of the bed 28 according to Figures 1 and 2 in the left, shorter foot sections and the right, longer back or upper body supporting a patient Head sections divided.
  • the underframe 12 contains one Side member 32, which like the head and foot sections 10a, b of the bed frame 10 mutually stiffening side members 34 from the longitudinal center of the Bed is offset on one side.
  • the head portion 18a of the mattress frame is at its recess 28 facing side about a horizontal axis so that with an attacking on its underside, supported on the base 12 Drive 36 any inclinations of the back section can be set can.
  • the recess 28 is dimensioned so that in the lowest position of the bed frame 10 a wheelchair 20 with a seat frame 22 and a flat-lay back frame 24 can be retracted and extended.
  • a wheelchair 20 with a seat frame 22 and a flat-lay back frame 24 can be retracted and extended.
  • the support parts 30 protrude with a horizontal Legs into the recess 28, form a guide for the Angle rails 26 and support the wheelchair 20 when the bed frame 10 is raised.
  • the seat frame 22 carries a padded seat 40, which is adjusted in height to the mattress.
  • the wheelchair 20 has a detachable with the seat frame 22 connected chassis with front small guide and rear large Impellers 48 and 50, respectively.
  • the seat frame 22 At the rear of the seat frame 22 are approximately Triangular connecting members 52 attached above which the wheels the lower end of the back frame 24 about a horizontal axis 56 is pivotally mounted.
  • the lower leg of the connecting member 52 serves when retracting the wheelchair 20 against the side member 34 as a stop for the entrance depth, after reaching the wheelchair 20 in the Recess 28 is locked.
  • angled handles 60 or a handle bar 62 connecting the bends is provided, on which the wheelchair can be moved by a caregiver.
  • Figure 9 are upper angled extensions 46 of frame tubes 58 of the back frame 24 designed as handles 60 or by a horizontal Handlebar 62 connected together.
  • Hinges 57 with horizontal Axis connect the frame tubes 58 and the angled extensions 46, which can be folded back under spring force. The flexibility the hinge connections are made by means of the extensions 46 surrounding partially lifted up to the frame tube sleeves 59.
  • each handle 60 and the connectors 64 are on both sides of the back frame 24 armrests 64 around parallel to the frame tubes Axes 66 can be swiveled and locked in use.
  • the armrests 64 are bent in plan view, see above that they are outside of the seat in their pointing position of use and run parallel to it.
  • the armrests 64 are pivoted to the rear, whereby according to FIG 3 reach behind the outer side member 34.
  • each Gripping wheel 70 is at a suitable height, preferably on the seat frame stationary, via a chain or belt drive with the impeller 50 coupled shaft 72 can be plugged on and is retracted when the wheelchair is retracted removed the bed frame.
  • the gripping wheels 70 each sit on one Shaft 72 in a lever that can be swiveled to the side of the wheelchair frame 76 is mounted in or on which a chain or leading to the impeller 50 Belt drive or a suitable other transmission gear housed is.
  • the lever 76 which can be mounted directly on the impeller axis can, with gripping wheel 70 from the indicated rear rest position out into a selectable, easily accessible, forward-tilting position for the driver Position swung up and locking means locked.
  • the back frame 24 which is in its locked upper end position has a slight backward inclination from the lying flat position To be able to pull it up, according to FIG. 6, with a handle or a fixed one Provide eyelet 82 to which a drawstring can be attached.
  • a remote control device can be installed with a user-accessible handle, via a Bowden cable Linkage or cable 84 two spring-loaded locking pins 86 from openings pull out the connectors 52.
  • two spring-loaded locking pins 86 from openings pull out the connectors 52.
  • a drive rod 88 is pivotally mounted on the opposite of the area larger diameter of a disk 94 attached to the impeller.
  • a friction block 90 is attached.
  • the attachment of the in the direction of his arch path a certain length of friction block 90 on the drive rod 88 in any suitable way, e.g. by screwing, welding or in the manner of a pipe clamp comprising the drive rod, whereby the Friction block at any distance from the pivot rod of the drive rod can be fixed.
  • the drive rod is preferably in the area outside of the diameter of the impeller 50 in a slotted component, which, according to FIG. 8, consists of a lateral extension 102, which of the outside of a cover 98 attached to the seat frame 22.
  • the one Guide slot 100 contains, is shown curved in Figure 7, the guide the drive rod also from a slot of a straight extension part be taken over, the cover possibly without angled bend is attached to the outside of the seat frame.
  • the guide slot 100 in the approach 102 extends over one of the drive rod intended swivel arc length and has a width that the drive rod leaves enough lateral play so that they are approximately parallel to the wheel axis 92 can be pushed / pulled towards the center of the wheelchair thereby pressing the friction block 90 against the disk 94.
  • the according to figure 8 disk protruding laterally over the impeller can also be a larger one Have diameter or be part of the impeller.
  • the drive rod 88 is at the rear end of it Swivel range with the friction block 90 pressed against the disk 94 and this frictional engagement is maintained until the drive rod to the front End of her arch path is pivoted.
  • the drive rod automatically returns to the one shown in FIG. back to the impeller axis vertical position, as it is on the cover 98 supported spring means 96, which act on the friction block 90, accordingly is biased and the friction block automatically from the Disk 94 releases.
  • the friction block shown as an example with a U-shaped Cross section can be used as a spring means on the cover 98 or on the opposite Leg of the U-shaped friction block attached bent, Flat spring provided for the required lifting or return stroke be.
  • the drive rod 88 in which the drive rod 88 is pivotally mounted on the impeller axis as before and is additionally guided on its arch path at a distance from it, it carries a driver pawl 104 mounted on a horizontal axis, via which a ring gear arranged on the disk 94 fixed to the impeller 50 106 is operated in the manner of a ratchet mechanism.
  • the driver pawl can be swiveled around its axis in order to drive the Switch forward or reverse travel.
  • the drive rod through an open Slot end or by one at the end of the slot of the projection 102 arranged angled guide link through into a flat or flat inclined rest position can be moved. Additionally or alternatively the connecting rod above its guide, but still below the seat frame height be divided, with the removable section with the remaining Push rod end by plugging into each other and / or by spring catch or bayonet catch can be connected again.

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EP1147757A2 (fr) * 2000-04-17 2001-10-24 Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha Lit multifonctionnel
WO2003068125A2 (fr) * 2002-02-11 2003-08-21 Stryker Canada Lp Chaise roulante
CN108403355A (zh) * 2018-02-02 2018-08-17 湖州师范学院 一种轮椅床

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EP1147757A2 (fr) * 2000-04-17 2001-10-24 Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha Lit multifonctionnel
EP1147757A3 (fr) * 2000-04-17 2003-07-09 Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha Lit multifonctionnel
WO2003068125A2 (fr) * 2002-02-11 2003-08-21 Stryker Canada Lp Chaise roulante
WO2003068125A3 (fr) * 2002-02-11 2004-02-05 Stryker Canada Lp Chaise roulante
CN108403355A (zh) * 2018-02-02 2018-08-17 湖州师范学院 一种轮椅床

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