JP3125563U - Anti-wrinkle system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure that a person with dementia can be noticed at a front door so that a deceased person does not go out without the knowledge of a family member or caregiver. A wrinkle prevention system that you don't have to worry about.
A wireless transmitter with a switch (compressed conductive rubber switch) designed to be attached to shoes or sandals worn by a wearer was devised, and a hole was made in the bottom of the footwear and attached. When you start walking with the sandals, the switch is activated, a radio signal is sent to the heel alarm, and a sound or a lamp is used to notify the householder or caregiver.
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Description

  With the transition to an aging society, the number of elderly people with dementia is rapidly increasing. If you have a patient with a manic symptom at your home or facility, you must always be worried about accidents or being unable to return home if you go out without your knowledge. It may be necessary to search for the support of others. To prevent this from happening, there is a need for a wrinkle prevention system that can reliably detect that you are going out at the entrance.

Technical background

  Conventionally, as a wandering detection sensor, the person himself / herself has a wireless transmitter, and a receiver is installed at home or facility. A type (A) in which the receiver detects that it has become weak, and a method (B) in which the transmitter continuously transmits and searches and tracks the signal (B) of these transmitters Common methods include pendants, amulets, etc. that can be worn around the neck, and there are also proposals for putting them in footwear designed to allow the transmitter to be installed. In addition, there is a system (C) for notifying by sound when crossing or stepping on any of these types, and each of these types has a problem and has the following inconvenience in practical use.

Both (A) and (B) cannot be relieved because it is always unknown whether the wearer is wearing the transmitter, and the transmitter must be always on. It is difficult to manage charging and replacement. (B) is for tracking the outgoing radio, but if it is late to notice, it may happen that the direction is not known at all. (C) is effective only for the place and time when the installed sensor is not operated by a third party. If the doorway is the same, the actual operation is very inconvenient and stress for the caregiver.

Problems that the device tries to solve

  Since the symptoms of dementia are not limited to hemorrhoids, it is not necessary that the householder or the person in charge pays attention only to hemorrhoids. Therefore, even if a third party forgets about this, there should be a method or system to ensure that only the deceased's outing is detected while still indoors, such as at the entrance, and to notify the householder and the person in charge. For example, the psychological burden on the householder and the person in charge seems to be very light. Providing such a detection system is an issue.

Means for solving the problem

  Except when the symptom is severe, if the symptom is mild, the deaf person does not go out barefoot, but it is very common to go out in his footwear. (Dementia seems to be relieved to be used to new things, things, and places. Therefore, there is an observation that the habit of wearing one's own footwear is strong.) The device of the present invention can be attached to the footwear that the wearer is always using. The device is switched on when weight is applied, and wireless transmission is performed. It is a system that notifies you that you are going out with a lamp.

A transmitter with a switch attached to footwear is required to be light and small and to be made of a material and a structure that can withstand repeated loads of an adult's weight in order to embed it in the sole of a shoe. For this purpose, a compression conductive rubber is used as a switch, and this is attached to the inside of the bottom of the heel of the person's footwear (see the figure). When the weight is applied to the bag, and this compressed conductive rubber switch is pressed and crushed, and electrically conductive, the transmitter starts transmission.

On the other hand, it is necessary for the switch of the compressed conductive rubber not to emit a signal simply by moving or touching footwear. Therefore, it is also a feature that the compression conductive rubber switch is crushed by 1 mm at a pressure of about 30 kg and is placed in a mounting position and shape so that it is conductive. This ensures that the transmitter switch will only start transmitting when a person is walking and walking. Furthermore, if a transmitter is equipped with a small microcomputer, the switch is turned on, and after transmission, the microcomputer timer is used, for example after 30 seconds, the transmission is automatically stopped. Even if the lithium battery is used as a power source, it will have a sufficient period of one year or more. The transmitter itself is also small, thin, and lightweight, so it can be stored in the shoe heel with the switch.

  The above switch structure devises a wrinkle prevention system in which pressure is applied to the footwear, the switch is turned on, and when wireless transmission is performed, the receiver can sound an alarm sound and turn on the lamp. In addition, when a telephone communication device is connected to the receiver, it can be seen in real time that a deaf person is going out to the mobile phone even when the user is out. For ordinary households, such a simple system can be used sufficiently and the psychological burden can be reduced.

On the other hand, in hospitals and facilities that accept dementia, it may be necessary to identify which patient of a plurality of appropriate persons is going out. In that case, an identification number is assigned to the transmitter attached to the footwear, and the identification number is placed on the transmitted radio wave and transmitted. The receiver recognizes the identification number, and can notify on the display board that the corresponding person name is about to go out.
This facility system can be applied in the same way even when there are a plurality of doorways and footwear is different in a general home.

Best mode for carrying out the invention

  A transmitter and a compression conductive rubber switch are installed on the sole of the foot of the footwear that the user wears everyday. The pressure to the compression conductive rubber switch is set to be about 30 kg. (It is appropriate that the switch is turned on with a pressure about half the weight of the deceased.) The pressure adjustment can be adjusted by the structure and material of the peripheral part of the attached sensor. The small transmitter should have a suitable peripheral structure that does not apply pressure when walking. When the switch is turned on, wireless transmission is started, and the receiver recognizes the identification number carried on the transmission radio wave. When it matches, a notification sound is emitted and the lamp is turned on.

Even if there is only one footwear, there is an advantage of sending the radio wave with an identification number. Because we chose weak radio waves as transmission radio waves to reduce power consumption, many other wireless devices use the same or very close frequency, which increases the possibility of interference and malfunctions. ing. Therefore, by providing a digital ID as an identification number to a carrier wave without identifying by frequency, it has a dual function that can prevent interference and malfunction, and can identify even a plurality of footwear.

  Examples using sandals are shown below. Here, it is not necessary to be a sandal. Rather, it may be a hole in which a wireless transmitter and a compression conductive rubber switch as shown below are embedded in footwear worn by the person everyday. For example, if the person bends forward in the way of walking, and if he / she walks on the foot, the position of the switch should be placed in the center or in front of it, and the place where the weight is applied to the switch after starting to walk should be selected.

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of footwear (sandals), and the mounting location is an example. The transmitter is mounted in a hole deeper than the thickness of the transmitter so that no pressure is applied when walking, and the compression conductive rubber switch is mounted in a hole whose depth is compressed by about 1 mm by walking, and the pressure is applied through the sole. Let them join. The sole was attached to the bottom of the sandal with a rubber adhesive so that water could not easily enter the transmitter space with the switch. The rubber switch used here is commercially available, and has a structure in which the cross section is approximately rectangular, the nets are above and below, and the compressed conductive rubber is sandwiched between them. The switch need only be fixed in the direction in which pressure is applied in the direction in which the two mesh lines approach, and can be mounted very easily. In this way, by combining this switch, the overall structure of the transmitter with a switch is greatly simplified, and a reliable operation is always guaranteed.
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the bottom showing a state where a transmitter or the like is attached to the bottom of the sandal. The transmitter is approximately 8.5mm thick, 34mm long and 24mm wide, including the battery holder, and the rubber switch is oval with a thickness of approximately 6mm and a width of approximately 8mm, and a cylindrical shape with a length of approximately 40mm. is there. Due to the structure of the rubber switch, it is mounted so that pressure is applied in the thickness direction.

FIG. 3 shows a system configuration diagram of the footwear and the heel alarm. In ordinary households, it is possible to install a receiver alarm within the reach of a weak radio with a radio distance of about 20m, but 20m is too short for large homes and facilities. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, it is also possible to place a wireless repeater near the shoe and transmit it to the heel alarm about 300 m away by specific low-power radio. In addition, with the above-described identification numbers corresponding to a plurality of shoes and transmitters, the heel alarm can also notify who is going out by using a lamp or a liquid crystal display.

Effect of device

As described above, when the switch-equipped radio transmitter attached to the footwear of the present invention “Claim 1” is attached to the user's normal footwear, the footwear immediately wears the footwear and walks, for example, a living room. An alarm sound or the like can be notified to a caregiver from a radio receiver installed at a remote location. As a result, while the niece is at the entrance, the caregiving family and the person in charge can know, and there is a reassuring effect that there is no need to have anxiety that "there is no time without knowing". In addition, since a person other than the person can go in and out of the entrance as usual without worrying about sensors, this wireless transmitter with a switch is said to be able to change the person's footwear into a kind of person identification sensor. There is an effect.
On the other hand, the switch is made of compressed conductive rubber, so it is easier to install in footwear compared to a mechanical switch, and even if you walk on it, it is only the compression and return movement of the rubber. The fact that it doesn't understand at all and has no effect on walking is an excellent effect.

  It is sectional drawing which opened the hole of 2 steps | paragraphs of depth in the collar part of the sandal, and attached the radio transmitter with a switch.   It is a top view of the state which peeled off the bottom part of the part of the bottom of the sandal which attached the wireless transmitter with a switch, and rolled up and can see a transmitter.   It is a system block diagram of a soot alarm when it can report only by weak radio.   It is a block diagram of a spear alarm system when the entrance or entrance / exit of a hospital or facility is far away from the room of a manager or person in charge and when there are a plurality of persons concerned.

Explanation of symbols

1. 1. Radio transmitter board 2. Battery holder 3. Button battery 4. Compression conductive rubber switch Conductor 6 Space 7. Sandals8. Sandal sole 9.徘徊 Alarm 10 10. Wireless repeater Multi-person identification 徘徊 alarm

Claims (3)

  Radio transmitter with switch attached to footwear   Wireless transmitter with switch using compressed conductive rubber as a switch   A system that informs a third party that a wireless transmitter has been switched on by walking and walking, and that the receiver has started moving the footwear with the wireless transmitter.

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