GB2343371A - Safety control of powered furniture - Google Patents
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- GB2343371A GB2343371A GB9823914A GB9823914A GB2343371A GB 2343371 A GB2343371 A GB 2343371A GB 9823914 A GB9823914 A GB 9823914A GB 9823914 A GB9823914 A GB 9823914A GB 2343371 A GB2343371 A GB 2343371A
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C20/00—Head -, foot -, or like rests for beds, sofas or the like
- A47C20/04—Head -, foot -, or like rests for beds, sofas or the like with adjustable inclination
- A47C20/041—Head -, foot -, or like rests for beds, sofas or the like with adjustable inclination by electric motors
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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
- A61G7/002—Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons having adjustable mattress frame
- A61G7/018—Control or drive mechanisms
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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
- A61G2203/00—General characteristics of devices
- A61G2203/70—General characteristics of devices with special adaptations, e.g. for safety or comfort
- A61G2203/72—General characteristics of devices with special adaptations, e.g. for safety or comfort for collision prevention
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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
- A61G5/00—Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
- A61G5/10—Parts, details or accessories
Abstract
Powered furniture, eg a chair or bed, movable by power between configurations, has a safety mechanism which detects the presence of a foreign object in the path of movement and acts on the power control to reverse and/or stop the movement. The furniture item may be mounted on a plinth or base around which is fixed an elongate flexible detector switch 1 having internal contacts (8,9 Fig 2) which meet under pressure. Electronic circuitry 2 detects contact being made and causes the movement to stop, preferably after a reversal of movement. The switch may also be mounted on the moving furniture part.
Description
Control of Powered Furniture
The present invention relates to the control of powered furniture.
Chairs, beds and other furniture are available which include mechanisms and power units that enable the occupant to be moved. These devices are particularly useful for people with physical disabilities and typically have the power to lift as much as 250kg. The same power is typically available when the mechanism is lowered or closed. It is normal that when the mechanism is in its raised position, access can be gained to the workings of the mechanism. This access is not necessarily required, but is inherent in the design of such mechanisms. It is possible that a person, small child, animal or equipment such as a power cord may have moved into a position where injury or damage may occur if the mechanism is subsequently lowered.
Improved furniture has now been devised.
According to a first aspect, the invention provides furniture comprising:
i) a furniture piece movable between a first
configuration and a second configuration;
ii) motive means for moving the furniture between
the first and second configurations ;
iii) control means controlling the operation of the
motive means ; and, iv) a detector arrangement for detecting the
presence of foreign bodies in the vicinity of
the furniture piece, the detector arrangement
being connected to the control means and
arranged to modify the output of the motive
means where a foreign body is detected.
The detector arrangement is preferably arranged to detect the presence of foreign bodies positioned between the furniture piece and the floor or wall of a building, or more preferably, the furniture piece and a plinth or base of the furniture piece, relative to which the furniture piece is moveable.
The furniture therefore preferably comprises a base mount or plinth for supporting the movable furniture piece, and relative to which the furniture piece is movable, preferably by tilting.
Desirably, the detector arrangement is positioned on a portion of the arrangement which remains substantially stationary whilst the furniture piece moves between the first and second configurations.
The detector arrangement preferably comprises a an elongate flexible detector, desirably extending about the base mount or plinth or the base or plinth contacting portion of the furniture piece.
The detector arrangement comprises electrical contacts normally biassed away from one another but capable of being brought into contact by an applied operating force which is substantially in the range 5N or less.
The detector arrangement preferably comprises an elongate housing resiliently compressible in a direction transverse to its longitudinal direction, which housing preferably carries an elongate electrical contact. The contact is preferably received in a receiving formation of the housing which receiving formation is preferably arranged to releasably retain the contact, desirably in releasable gripping engagement. A second contact desirably runs adjacent the first contact in the housing desirably received in a channel provided in a base portion of the housing.
In one embodiment at least one of the contacts may comprise an electrically conductive wire wound about an elongate flexible former. It is believed that a detector arrangement as herein defined is novel and inventive per se.
Desirably, the control means is arranged to modify the output of the motive means in response to change in the contact status of the detector arrangement. The motive means is preferably caused to cease operation or reverse in operation in response to output from the detector arrangement corresponding to the contacts touching.
Desirably, the motive means is caused to reverse in operation before ceasing operation, in such circumstances.
The motive means is preferably arranged to operate the furniture piece to tilt between the first and second configuration.
In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides a tilting chair or bed arrangement comprising:
i) a tilting bed or chair movable between a first
configuration and a second configuration tilted
relative to the first configuration;
ii) a base mount or plinth for the chair or bed;
iii) motive means for tilting the bed or chair from
the first to the second configuration;
iv) control means controlling the operation of the
motive means; and, v) a detector arrangement for detecting the
presence of foreign bodies between the base
mount or plinth and the bed or chair, the
detector arrangement being connected to the
control means and arranged to modify the output
of the motive means where a foreign body is
detected, the detector means comprising an
elongate detector element extending about the
base of the bed or chair, or (more preferably)
the base mount or plinth and having elongate
portions extending in substantially mutually
perpendicular directions.
The chair or bed is preferably connected to the base mount or plinth at a tilt axis connection. Desirably, the motive means is arranged to extend and retract a pivotal arm connected to the bed or chair and the base mount or plinth.
The invention will now be further described in a specific embodiment, by way of example only, and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 is a schematic representation of an
arrangement for controlling the operation of
furniture according to the invention;
Figure 2 is a schematic sectional view of a detector
arrangement comprising furniture according to the
invention;
Figure 3 is a schematic perspective view of the
construction of a flexible continuous conductor shown
in figure 2 ;
Figure 4 is a schematic perspective view of a support
frame for powered tilting furniture according to the
invention; and,
Figure 5 is a view corresponding to figure 4, showing
a detector arrangement according to the invention in
position.
Referring to the drawings, as shown in Figure 1, an elongate flexible detector 1 is connected to an electronic circuit 2, which can be interfaced as required to the control unit of the powered furniture 3. The electronic circuit comprises a monitor section 10 and a latch 11.
The detector 1 comprises two continuous metal contacts 8 and 9, supported in a rigid non-conducting base 7 and a flexible non-conducting cover 6 as shown in Figure 2. The cover 6 has sufficient flexibility to allow the contacts 8 and 9 to touch when pressure is applied and sufficient recovery strength to separate the contacts 8 and 9 when the pressure is removed. To ensure that the upper contact 8 has sufficient flexibility in all dimensions it may be made of a thin metal material, or as shown in Figure 5 it may be constructed as a wire 13 wound onto a nonconducting flexible, non-stretch former 12.
Under normal circumstances, when it is safe for the furniture to be operated (for example tilted to a lowered position from a raised position), the output of the latch 11 in the electronic circuit 2 will be in a reset state.
The monitor 10 in the electronic circuit 2 detects if the contacts 8 and 9 in the detector device break along their length or if they come into contact. If either event happens, the monitor 10 will set the output of the latch 11.
The changed output state of the latch 11 can be used by the machine's control unit 3 to initiate the most desirable action, for example to stop or reverse the machine's power unit 5.
The latch 11 will remain with a changed output state until the contacts 8 and 9 separate and the latch 11 subsequently receives a separate reset signal.
As an example, for the case of a lifting chair, which is used to help the chair's occupant to stand from a sitting position, the chair's mechanism will be opened by its power unit 5 as shown in Figure 4. The detector 1 is fitted to a base mount frame 14 to extend around three sides of the frame enclosing the opening area of the mechanism 4 as shown in Figure 5, so that any body of sufficient weight entering the opening in the machine will press the contacts 8 and 9 in the detector device together. Alternatively, if an object with insufficient weight, such as a power cord enters the mechanism, the contacts 8 and 9 in the detector device 1 will come together as the mechanism 4 closes on it. The amount of movement allowed in the detector device will ensure that damage is not caused to the obstructing object before the mechanisms'movement is stopped or reversed.
Claims (24)
- Claims: 1. Furniture comprising:i) a furniture piece movable between a first configuration and a second configuration;ii) motive means for moving the furniture between the first and second configurations;iii) control means controlling the operation of the motive means; and,iv) a detector arrangement for detecting the presence of foreign bodies in the vicinity of the furniture piece, the detector arrangement being connected to the control means and arranged to modify the output of the motive means where a foreign body is detected.
- 2. Furniture according to claim 1, wherein the detector arrangement is arranged to detect the presence of foreign bodies positioned between the furniture piece and the floor or wall of a building.
- 3. Furniture according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the detector arrangement is arranged to detect the presence of foreign bodies positioned between furniture piece and a plinth or base of the furniture piece, relative to which the furniture piece is moveable.
- 4. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the furniture further comprises a base mount or plinth for supporting the movable furniture piece, and relative to which the furniture piece is movable.
- 5. Furniture according to claim 4, wherein the furniture piece is movable relative to the plinth or base by tilting.
- 6. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the detector arrangement is positioned on a portion of the arrangement which remains substantially stationary whilst the furniture piece moves between the first and second configurations.
- 7. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the detector arrangement comprises a an elongate flexible detector.
- 8. Furniture according to claim 7, wherein the furniture further comprises a base mount or plinth for supporting the movable furniture piece, and relative to which the furniture piece is movable, the elongate flexible detector extending about the base mount or plinth.
- 9. Furniture according to claim 7, wherein the furniture further comprises a base mount or plinth for supporting the movable furniture piece, and relative to which the furniture piece is movable, the elongate flexible detector extending about the base or plinth contacting portion of the furniture piece.
- 10. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the detector arrangement comprises electrical contacts normally biassed away from one another but capable of being brought into contact by an applied operating force which is substantially in the range 5N or less.
- 11. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the detector arrangement includes an elongate housing resiliently compressible in a direction transverse to its longitudinal direction, which housing carries an elongate electrical contact.
- 12. Furniture according to claim 11, wherein the contact is received in a receiving formation of the housing which receiving formation is arranged to releasably retain the contact.
- 13. Furniture according to claim 12, wherein the contact is retained in releasable gripping engagement by the receiving formation.
- 14. Furniture according to any of claims 11 to 13, wherein a second contact extends adjacent the first contact in the housing.
- 15. Furniture according to claim 14, wherein the second contact is received in a channel provided in a base portion of the housing.
- 16. Furniture according to any of claims 11 to 15, wherein at least one of the contacts comprises an electrically conductive wire wound about an elongate flexible former.
- 17. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the detector arrangement comprises electrical contacts, the control means being arranged to modify the output of the motive means in response to change in the contact status of the detector arrangement.
- 18. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the motive means is caused to cease operation or reverse in operation in response to output from the detector arrangement.
- 19. Furniture according to claim 18, wherein, the motive means is caused to reverse in operation before ceasing operation.
- 20. Furniture according to any preceding claim, wherein the motive means is arranged to operate the furniture piece to tilt between the first and second configuration.
- 21. Furniture according to any preceding claim, comprising a tilting chair or bed arrangement comprising:i) a tilting bed or chair movable between a first configuration and a second configuration tilted relative to the first configuration;ii) a base mount or plinth for the chair or bed;iii) motive means for tilting the bed or chair from the first to the second configuration;iv) control means controlling the operation of the motive means; and,v) a detector arrangement for detecting the presence of foreign bodies between the base mount or plinth and the bed or chair, the detector arrangement being connected to the control means and arranged to modify the output of the motive means where a foreign body is detected, the detector means comprising an elongate detector element extending about the base of the bed or chair, or (more preferably) the base mount or plinth and having elongate portions extending in substantially mutually perpendicular directions.
- 22. Furniture according to claim 21, wherein the chair or bed is connected to the base mount or plinth at a tilt axis connection.
- 23. Furniture according to claim 22, wherein, the motive means is arranged to extend and retract a pivotal arm connected to the bed or chair and the base mount or plinth.
- 24. Furniture substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Priority Applications (10)
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GB9823914A GB2343371B (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1998-11-03 | Control of powered furniture |
PCT/GB1999/003614 WO2000025636A1 (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1999-11-02 | Control of powered furniture |
CA002349362A CA2349362A1 (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1999-11-02 | Control of powered furniture |
NZ511298A NZ511298A (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1999-11-02 | Detection of obstacle to closing in powered furniture |
AU10558/00A AU1055800A (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1999-11-02 | Control of powered furniture |
GB0027732A GB2351656B (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1999-11-02 | A detector arrangement |
EP99954119A EP1126771A1 (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1999-11-02 | Control of powered furniture |
NZ527911A NZ527911A (en) | 1998-11-03 | 2001-04-24 | Control of powered furniture |
ZA200103427A ZA200103427B (en) | 1998-11-03 | 2001-04-26 | Control of powered furniture. |
NO20012164A NO20012164L (en) | 1998-11-03 | 2001-05-02 | Control of motor-driven furniture |
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GB9823914A Expired - Fee Related GB2343371B (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1998-11-03 | Control of powered furniture |
GB0027732A Expired - Fee Related GB2351656B (en) | 1998-11-03 | 1999-11-02 | A detector arrangement |
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