EP2377503B1 - Procédé de production d'un matelas à air avec des passages d'air multiples - Google Patents

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EP2377503B1
EP2377503B1 EP20100159980 EP10159980A EP2377503B1 EP 2377503 B1 EP2377503 B1 EP 2377503B1 EP 20100159980 EP20100159980 EP 20100159980 EP 10159980 A EP10159980 A EP 10159980A EP 2377503 B1 EP2377503 B1 EP 2377503B1
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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
    • A61G7/00—Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
    • A61G7/05—Parts, details or accessories of beds
    • A61G7/057—Arrangements for preventing bed-sores or for supporting patients with burns, e.g. mattresses specially adapted therefor
    • A61G7/05769—Arrangements for preventing bed-sores or for supporting patients with burns, e.g. mattresses specially adapted therefor with inflatable chambers
    • A61G7/05776—Arrangements for preventing bed-sores or for supporting patients with burns, e.g. mattresses specially adapted therefor with inflatable chambers with at least two groups of alternately inflated chambers

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  • the present invention relates to a process for manufacturing an air mattresses with multiple air passages.
  • Such air mattress can be specialized in having bladders capable of mutually inflating and deflating so as to bring the patient an alternate pressure relief without temporary contacts with the bed and decrease the occurrence of bedsore.
  • EP 1 151 698 disclose a process for making an air mattresses having passage bodies with cavities opening in transverse bladders.
  • this air mattress has a complex structure, particularly includes longitudinal outer bladders and a complicated way of welding the passage bodies to a median sheet, an upper sheet and to the outer longitudinal sheet forming the adjacent outer bladder.
  • a primary object of the present invention is to provide a multiple air passages applied to air mattress which applies a series of unique air passages in the air mattress.
  • the subject air passages are particularly embedded in the mattress during the producing process. Accordingly, the present invention keeps the subject air mattress from a complicate pipe distribution and adapts to a mass production for economically reducing manufacturing costs. Furthermore, the air mattress without the exposure of the inlet pipes would facilitate a neat appearance and prevent the pipes from dropping off.
  • a multiple air passages applied to air mattress in accordance with the present invention comprises a plurality of parallel and transverse bladders.
  • the bladders are longitudinally compressed to define air passages and form cavities between the air passages and some specific bladders so as to communicate the air passages with an interior of the specific bladders for feeding air.
  • the air passages could respectively proceed an effect of air-crossing transmission and a designated distribution.
  • the present invention preferably disposes two air passages and defines cavities between odd bladders of the air mattress and a first air passage, so that the first air passage supplies air to the odd bladders without pumping the even ones air.
  • the present invention also defines cavities between even bladders and a second air passage, so that the second air passage merely supplies air to the even bladders but omits inflating the odd ones.
  • the present invention conduces to a manufacture without pipe distribution, a neat appearance, lower costs, and a mass production.
  • the air mattress includes a first body superimposed on a second body by compressing borders thereof, and the first and second bodies are formed into a plurality of lateral bladders by dividing or supplementing a joint unit.
  • the air passage as mentioned above is defined by the bladders longitudinally compressing the passage body, namely the passage body is squashed at an interior border of the second body so as to form the air passage therebetween.
  • a quantity of the air passages could be varied in pursuant to the module or function of the air mattress.
  • the air mattress has an arrangement of alternate odd and even bladders or of two changeable sets of bladders, two air passages are accordingly set.
  • two air passages are accordingly set.
  • three air passages are accordingly arranged.
  • the quantity of the air passages preferably equals to the quantity of the action zones.
  • the compression of the borders of the first and the second bodies mainly adopts a high-frequency compression welding.
  • Other sections of the air mattress required to be squashed can also be furnished by the high-frequency compression welding.
  • the bladders are longitudinally proceeded by the high-frequency compression welding to dispose the passage body, and the air passage is further defined via disposing a release paper between the bladders and the passage body in advance.
  • the release paper has a smaller surface area and a narrower width than the passage body. Therefore, a perimeter of the passage bodies is subjected to a squash unlike an interior thereof subjected to a non-squash condition for promoting a circulation of the air passage after proceeding the compression.
  • either the air passages or any one of the bladders disposes an inlet and an inlet pipe connected thereto.
  • the inlet pipe joints to an air pump.
  • Each air passage should at least communicate with the inlet.
  • a supporting portion is permissibly disposed in the air passage to keep the normality in the air circulation and prevent from unexpectedly blocking the cavities.
  • the air mattress further includes a head bladder able to keep inflating for supporting the human head while lying in bed.
  • the air mattress has a one-way valve disposed in the air passage.
  • the one-way valve serves to avoid the countercurrent of the air after passing and has a supporting portion in appropriate length disposed inside the air passage.
  • the supporting portion assists the air in entering by a single direction.
  • the supporting portion is not arranged at the end of the one-way valve, so that the barometric pressure at the outer end thereof can be blocked by using a blocking unit to automatically shut the air passage off.
  • a CPR deflation valve could be disposed at an edge of the head bladder. The operation of the emergent deflation valve would immediately deflate the interior of the air mattress so that medical personnel are allowed giving the patient a first aid and CPR.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 present one preferred embodiment of a multiple air passages applied to air mattress of the present invention.
  • the air mattress includes a first body 1 superimposed on a second body 2 by compressing borders 31 thereof; wherein, the air mattress is divided into a plurality of first bladders 41 and second bladders 42.
  • the mattress is configured by two alternating bladders, and the first bladders 41 and the second bladders 42 are incessantly spaced.
  • the joints of the adjacent first bladders 41 and the second bladders 42 are interrupted without communication by score lines 32.
  • a plurality of head bladders 44 are disposed among the air mattress.
  • a first passage body 51 is longitudinally compressed.
  • the first passage body 51 includes one or above first cavity 511 correspondingly located with respect to each of the first bladders 41.
  • a release paper (not shown in the figures)
  • merely the perimeter of the first passage body 51 is squashed when compressing the first passage body 51 to the second body 2, with the result that the interior of the first passage body 51 is not squashed.
  • a first air passage 61 is preferably defined between the first passage body 51 and the second body 2.
  • the first air passage 61 cooperates with every first cavity 511 so that the interior of every first bladder 41 substantially communicates with the first air passage 61.
  • any one of the first bladders 41 defines a first inlet 412 that further equips with a first inlet pipe 91.
  • a second passage body 52 is longitudinally compressed.
  • the second passage body 52 includes one or above second cavity 521 correspondingly located with respect to each of the second bladders 42.
  • the method in connection with the compression of the second passage body 52 to the second body 2 is identical to the aforementioned.
  • a second air passage 62 is preferably defined between the second passage body 52 and the second body 2.
  • the second air passage 62 cooperates with every second cavity 521 so that the interior of every second bladder 42 substantially communicates with the second air passage 62.
  • any one of the second bladders 42 defines a second inlet 422 that further equips with a second inlet pipe 92.
  • the above first inlet pipe 91 and the second inlet pipe 92 provide the front sides thereof attached to an air pump (not shown) for controlling the inflation and deflation.
  • Fig. 3 presents that the present invention fills all the first bladders 41 with air but fails to inflate the second bladders 42 for sending the air from the first inlet pipe 91.
  • the air travels through the first inlet 412, enters into the first bladder 41 at the edge, and diffuses the first air passage 61 through the first cavities 511 so as to fill the first bladders 41 with air.
  • the present invention does not pump the air to the second inlet pipe 92, with the result that the second bladders 42 are not inflated.
  • Fig. 4 presents that the present invention fills all the second bladders 42 with air but fails to inflate the first bladders 41 for sending the air from the second inlet pipe 92.
  • the air travels through the second inlet 422, enters into the second bladder 42 at the edge, and diffuses the second air passage 62 through the second cavities 521 so as to fill the second bladders 42 with air.
  • the present invention does not send the air to the first inlet pipe 91, therefore the first bladders 41 are not inflated.
  • the present invention fills both the first bladders 41 and the second bladders 42 with air for sending the air from the first inlet pipe 91 and the second inlet pipe 92, respectively.
  • the air is permissively circulated among the first air passage 61 and the second air passage 62 through the first cavities 511 and the second cavities 521, so as to inflate both the first bladders 41 and the second bladders 42.
  • the present invention can inversely furnish the air mattress with the deflation according to the aforementioned path of the air circulation.
  • the present invention also applies the embedded first air passage 61 and the second air passage 62 that cooperates with the first cavities 511 and the second cavities 521 to input the air to the required first bladders 41 or the second bladders 42.
  • Such integral air passages adapted to the air mattress not only facilitates a designated transmission but also possesses an air-crossing property, which is not believed to be disclosed by the conventional inventions.
  • FIG. 6 shows a further preferred embodiment of the present invention adapted to another air mattress.
  • the air mattress includes first bladders 41, second bladders 42 and third bladders 43.
  • Concerning to the alternating mattress with three series of bladders, the manufacture merely needs to replenish a third inlet pipe 93, third cavities 531, and a third air passage 63 for satisfying requirements of respectively inflating the three bladders.
  • FIG. 7 shows a further preferred embodiment of the present invention adapted to another air mattress with multiple zones.
  • the air mattress includes an A action zone 71, a B action zone 72, a C action zone 73, and a D action zone 74.
  • the A action zone 71 proceeds the inflation upon the aid of an A air passage 711 and A cavities 712.
  • the B action zone 72 proceeds the inflation upon the aid of a B air passage 721 and B cavities 722.
  • the C action zone 73 proceeds the inflation upon the aid of a C air passage 731 and C cavities 732.
  • the D action zone 74 proceeds the inflation upon the aid of a D air passage 741 and D cavities 742.
  • a one-way valve 54 is disposed at a joint where the second air passage 62 meets the head bladder 44 and the second bladder 42.
  • the one-way valve 54 only permits the air to pass by a single direction and behaves an anti-reflux of the air after the air passes.
  • the one-way valve 54 has a supporting portion 542 in appropriate length disposed inside the second air passage 62. Preferably, the end of the supporting portion 542 does not extend to the end of the one-way valve 62 for cooperating with a blocking unit 541. As plainly shown in Fig.
  • the supporting portion 542 assists the air in smoothly entering the head bladder 44 by one-way direction. Further referring to Fig. 9 , in view of the end of the one-way valve 54 lacks the structure of the supporting portion 542, the barometric pressure in the head bladder 44 renders the blocking unit 541 able to automatically shut the second air passage 62 off when the head bladder 44 is not inflated in the second air passage 62.
  • the air passages in the present invention can entirely dispose a supporting portion 542 in the interior thereof for satisfying users' demands, thereby expanding the air passages to maintain the normality in the air transmission and avoiding the specialized cavities to be unexpectedly closed.
  • the air mattress of the present invention has a joint unit 8 disposed between the first body 1 and the second body 2.

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  1. Un procédé de fabrication d'un matelas pneumatique avec de multiples passages d'air, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend les étapes suivantes :
    - l'utilisation d'un premier corps (1) sur un second corps (2) ;
    - l'agencement d'éléments de passage (51, 52) ayant des cavités (511, 521, 531) sur ledit second corps (2), tout en disposant un papier antiadhésif ayant une surface plus petite et une largeur plus réduite que lesdits éléments de passage (51, 52) ;
    - la superposition dudit premier corps (1) sur ledit second corps (2) ;
    - la compression des bords (31) desdits premier et deuxième corps (1, 2), et la division ou l'ajout d'une unité de jonction (8) de manière à former lesdits premier et deuxième corps (1, 2) en une pluralité de boudins transversaux (41 , 42, 43), lesdits boudins (41, 42, 43) étant séparés, selon des intervalles, par une pluralité de lignes de séparation (32), et la soumission d'un périmètre desdits éléments de passage (51, 52) à un écrasement tandis qu'un intérieur de ces éléments est soumis à une condition de non-écrasement après compression ; lesdits boudins (41, 42, 43) étant comprimés longitudinalement pour définir des passages d'air (61, 62, 63), lesdites cavités (511, 521, 531) étant formées entre lesdits passages d'air (61 , 62, 63) et certains desdits boudins spécifiques (41, 42, 43) pour faire communiquer lesdits passages d'air (61, 62, 63) avec un intérieur desdits boudins spécifiques (41, 42, 43).
  2. Le procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite compression adopte un soudage à compression à haute fréquence.
  3. Le procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'un nombre desdits passages d'air (61, 62, 63) dudit matelas à air est identique à une quantité de groupes alternés desdits boudins (41, 42, 43).
  4. Le procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que lesdits boudins (41, 42, 43) sont formés en une pluralité de zones actives (71, 72, 73, 74) et un nombre desdits passages d'air (61, 62, 63) est égal à un nombre desdites zones actives (71, 72, 73, 74).
  5. Le procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que lesdits passages d'air (61, 62, 63) ou un quelconque desdits boudins communicants (41, 42, 43) disposent d'une entrée (412, 422) et d'un tuyau d'entrée (91, 92, 93, 94) qui lui est relié ; ledit tuyau d'entrée (91, 92, 93, 94) est relié à une pompe à air.
  6. Le procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend l'étape consistant à agencer un boudin de tête (44) et une valve anti-retour (54) dans ledit matelas à air, disposée en un emplacement où ledit boudin de tête (44) rencontre lesdits boudins (41, 42, 43) dans lesdits passages d'air (61, 62, 63).
  7. Le procédé selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que ladite valve anti-retour (54) est agencée de manière à inclure une partie de support (542) et une unité de blocage (541), ladite partie de support (542) est partiellement disposée entre lesdits passages d'air (61, 62, 63) ; une extrémité distale de ladite partie de support (542) ne s'étend pas dans la cavité du boudin de tête (44), ladite unité de blocage (541) est disposée au niveau d'un bord de ladite valve anti-retour (54).
  8. Le procédé selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce qu'une valve de dégonflage CPR est disposée sur un bord dudit boudin de tête (44).
  9. Le procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend les étapes consistant en :
    - la disposition de deux passages d'air ;
    - la définition de cavités entre des boudins impairs du matelas à air et un premier passage d'air, de sorte que le premier passage d'air fournit de l'air aux boudins impairs sans pomper l'air des boudins pairs ;
    - la définition de cavités entre les boudins pairs du matelas à air et un deuxième passage d'air, de sorte que le second passage d'air fournit de l'air simplement aux boudins pairs mais omet de gonfler les boudins impairs.
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