JP5939875B2 - Toilet for private room - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a private room toilet installed in a hospital room used by a single patient in a hospital or the like.

  Conventionally, in facilities such as hospitals, shared toilets used by patients in multiple hospital rooms have been installed at various locations within the facility. In this case, there is a problem that the distance traveled when the patient in the hospital room goes to the toilet by himself / herself, or when the patient in the hospital room goes to the bathroom with the help of a healthcare worker such as a nurse. In addition, since toilets were used by multiple patients, there was also concern about infectious diseases.

  In order to solve these problems, a technique of installing a simple toilet in a hospital room used by a single patient is known (for example, Patent Document 1). According to the technique described in Patent Document 1, a box-type simple toilet used by critically ill patients and the like is installed beside a bed. Moreover, you may make it install not only the technique of patent document 1 but a normal toilet in a private room. In either case, the toilet is covered with an opaque wall or an opaque door to prevent odors and sounds inside the toilet from leaking to the outside or to prevent the patient in the bed from seeing the toilet. Yes. However, in the above-mentioned publicly known document, there is a problem that when a patient falls down in the toilet, the medical staff cannot notice the abnormality of the patient even when looking into the hospital room.

  By the way, a nurse call system for a patient in a hospital room to call a medical worker is known. In this nurse call system, a nurse call cordless handset installed in the vicinity of a patient (for example, in the vicinity of a bed, etc.) and a nurse call master set installed in a staff room where medical staff are resident are connected by wire or wireless. doing. In the nurse call system configured as described above, when the patient operates the call operation unit provided in the nurse call slave unit, the notification unit provided in the nurse call master unit operates, and the patient selects the medical staff. Can be called. The medical staff can respond by off-hooking the handset provided in the nurse call parent machine, and can talk with the patient.

In addition to this, a portable terminal carried by a medical worker (for example, PHS (Personal
A nurse call system provided with a handy phone system) and a PBX (Private Branch Exchange) is also provided. When a call is made by the nurse call slave, the mobile terminal rings and vibrates to notify. The medical staff can respond by operating the mobile terminal and can make a call with the patient.

  In a hospital where such a nurse call system is installed, when a patient in a hospital room wants to go to the toilet installed in the hospital room, the patient operates the call operation unit of the nurse call handset, It is preferable to call the medical staff and move to the toilet with the assistance of the medical staff. However, among patients, there is a patient who hesitates to call a medical worker and moves to the toilet by himself without operating the call operation unit of the nurse call slave. For this reason, there is a concern that a patient who has moved on his own will be in a dangerous state.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-43089

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. When a patient uses a toilet installed in a private room where one patient is hospitalized, the patient uses the toilet. That the patient is not using the toilet, the patient does not feel the presence of the toilet, and when the patient is using the toilet, the healthcare worker looks into the private room. The purpose is to make it possible to grasp the situation of the toilet.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, in the present invention, a toilet is installed near a bed in a private room, a door for a patient to enter and exit the toilet is attached to the toilet, and a button provided near the bed is operated. The door is opened, and a call is made to call a medical worker, and the door is closed by detecting that the patient has entered the toilet. In addition, it is possible to transition between a first state in which at least a part of the wall and door of the toilet can be seen from the outside and a second state in which it cannot be seen from the outside, and the patient operates the button or the patient enters the toilet. The first state is set until it is detected that the patient has gone out of the toilet from any state where entry is detected.

  According to the present invention configured as described above, since a notification for calling a medical worker is performed by operating a button that the patient must operate to open the toilet door, the patient in the private room uses the toilet. Can be surely notified to health care professionals. In addition, the wall surface of the toilet and at least a part of the door are configured to be able to transition between a first state that can be visually recognized from the outside and a second state that cannot be visually recognized from the outside. From the state of detecting whether the patient has entered the toilet to the first state that is visible from the outside until the patient is detected to have gone out of the toilet, the patient uses the toilet. When doing so, the health care worker can look into the private room and grasp the situation of the toilet. On the other hand, since it becomes the 2nd state which cannot be visually recognized from the outside during other than that, when the patient is not using the toilet, it can be made not to make a patient feel presence of a toilet.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the toilet for private rooms by this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of an external appearance of the toilet for private rooms by this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of an external appearance of the shutter part of the toilet for private rooms by this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the external appearance modification of the shutter part of the toilet for private rooms by this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a toilet 1 for a private room according to the present embodiment. Moreover, FIG. 2 is a figure which shows the example of an external appearance of the toilet 1 for private rooms by this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the toilet 1 for private rooms by this embodiment is installed in the vicinity of the bed in the sick room used by one patient. Here, the hospital room is separated from the corridor by a door.

  The toilet 1 for a private room includes a control unit 2, a button 3, a detection unit 4, a shutter unit 5, and an interface 6. Moreover, the toilet 1 for private rooms is installed in the space formed by the wall surface W and the door D, and the toilet bowl and the washstand are installed in the space. The door D is a sliding door and is moved to an open state or a closed state by a motor or the like.

  The control part 2 is for controlling each component of the toilet 1 for private rooms so that it may mention later, and is comprised by CPU (Central Processing Unit). The button 3 is used when the patient operates the private room toilet 1. Here, the button 3 is provided in the vicinity of the bed so that the patient can operate it at hand. When the button 3 is operated, the button 3 generates a call signal and outputs it to the control unit 2.

  The detection unit 4 is for detecting a person entering and leaving the space formed by the wall surface W and the door D, and is configured by a human sensor or the like installed on the ceiling of the toilet 1 for the private room. When the detection unit 4 detects that a person has entered the space, the detection unit 4 generates a detection signal and outputs the detection signal to the control unit 2 to detect that the person has come out of the space (in other words, a person is detected in the space). And a leaving signal is generated and output to the control unit 2.

  The shutter unit 5 is formed on at least a part of the wall surface W, and changes between a first state in which the inside of the private room toilet 1 is visible and a second state in which the inside of the private room toilet 1 is invisible. . Here, in a normal state, the shutter unit 5 is in the second state. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the shutter unit 5 is configured by a blind that is driven by a motor or the like. The blind is configured by arranging a plurality of plate-like members 5a in the vertical direction, and the inside of the private room toilet 1 can be visually recognized by moving the plurality of plate-like members 5a so as to be perpendicular to the wall surface W. The first state is assumed (see FIG. 3A). On the other hand, by moving the plurality of plate-like members 5a so as to be parallel to the wall surface W, the inside of the private room toilet 1 is set in a second state invisible (see FIG. 3B).

  In the present embodiment, the plurality of plate-like members 5a are arranged in the vertical direction, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a plurality of plate-like members 5a may be arranged in the horizontal direction. Moreover, in this embodiment, although the blind comprised by the some plate-shaped member 5a is used as the shutter part 5, it is not limited to this. For example, the shutter unit may be configured by a liquid crystal sheet or the like that changes between a transparent state and an opaque state by an electrical signal.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, the shutter unit 5 ′ according to this modification is in a transparent state when an electric signal is input, and is in a first state in which the inside of the private room toilet 1 can be visually recognized (FIG. 4). (A)). On the other hand, when another electric signal is input, the state becomes opaque, and a second state in which the inside of the private room toilet 1 is invisible is entered (FIG. 4B).

  The interface 6 is for connecting the toilet 1 for a private room to a nurse call parent device (not shown), and outputs a call signal generated by the button 3 to the nurse call parent device. Here, the nurse call master unit that has input the call signal notifies that the patient is using the private room toilet 1. As a notification method, there are a method of outputting sound from a speaker, lighting / flashing a lamp, and displaying on a display.

  When the button 3 is operated by the patient who is on the bed, the button 3 generates a call signal and outputs it to the control unit 2. The control unit 2 having received the call signal opens the door D and outputs the input call signal to the interface 6. The interface 6 outputs the call signal input from the control unit 2 to the nurse call parent device. The nurse call parent device that has received the call signal notifies the patient that the toilet 1 for the private room is being used. Here, when there are a plurality of private room toilets 1 managed by the nurse call parent machine, it is necessary to add identification information for identifying each private room toilet 1 to the call signal.

  Further, when the detection unit 4 detects that the patient has entered the space in the private room toilet 1 when the door D is in the open state by the control unit 2 to which the calling signal is input, the detection unit 4 A detection signal is generated and output to the control unit 2. The control unit 2 having input the detection signal closes the door D. Thus, the button 3 is operated, the door D is opened, and the control unit 2 performs the first control until the patient enters the space in the toilet 1 for the private room and the door D is closed. .

  On the other hand, when the button 3 is operated by the patient who is on the bed, the control unit 2 controls the shutter unit 5 to make the inside of the private room toilet 1 invisible (see FIG. 3B). ) To the first state (see FIG. 3A) in which the inside of the private room toilet 1 is visible. Then, the medical worker who opened the hospital room door can visually recognize the inside of the private room toilet 1 through the wall surface W. In this state, when the detection unit 4 detects that the patient has left the space in the private room toilet 1, the detection unit 4 generates an exit signal and outputs it to the control unit 2. The control unit 2 that has input the exit signal controls the shutter unit 5 to change the inside of the private room toilet 1 to the second state (see FIG. 3B) that is not visible again.

  In the present embodiment, the control unit 2 controls the shutter unit 5 to change to the first state at the timing when the button 3 is operated. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the shutter unit 5 may be controlled to change to the first state at the timing when the detection unit 4 detects that the patient has entered the space in the private room toilet 1.

  As described above in detail, according to the present embodiment, the door 3 is opened by operating the button 3 provided in the vicinity of the bed, and the patient is notified to call the medical staff. The door D is closed by detecting that it has entered the inside by the detection unit 4. In addition, the shutter 5 provided on the wall surface W of the toilet 1 for the private room can be switched between a first state that can be visually recognized from the outside and a second state that cannot be visually recognized from the outside. The shutter unit 5 is set to the first state until the detection unit 4 detects that the patient has exited the private room toilet 1.

  Thereby, since the notification which calls a medical worker by operation of the button 3 which a patient must operate in order to open the door D of the toilet 1 for private rooms is performed, the patient in a private room uses the toilet 1 for private rooms. Can be surely notified to health care professionals. Further, the shutter unit 5 provided on the wall surface W of the toilet 1 for the private room is configured to be able to transition between a first state that is visible from the outside and a second state that is not visible from the outside. Since the shutter unit 5 is in a first state that can be visually recognized from the outside after the operation until it is detected that the patient has gone out of the private room toilet 1, the patient uses the private room toilet 1. When the medical worker is looking into the private room, the situation of the toilet 1 for the private room can be grasped. On the other hand, since the shutter unit 5 is in a second state that cannot be seen from the outside during the other periods, the patient does not feel the presence of the private room toilet 1 when the patient is not using the private room toilet 1. Can be.

  In addition, in embodiment mentioned above, although the shutter part 5 is provided in the wall surface W of the toilet 1 for private rooms, it is not limited to this. For example, you may make it provide the shutter part 5 in the door D of the toilet 1 for private rooms. Here, it is preferable to provide the shutter portion 5 at a position where the private room toilet 1 can be confirmed when the medical worker opens the hospital room door and looks into the hospital room.

  Moreover, in embodiment mentioned above, although the patient operates the button 3 when using the toilet 1 for private rooms, it is not limited to this. For example, a sensor such as a mat sensor that detects that a patient has stood in front of the door D of the toilet 1 for the private room may be used instead of the button 3.

  In the embodiment described above, a human sensor is used as the detection unit 4, but is not limited to this. For example, a mat sensor that detects a load around the toilet bowl may be used as the detection unit 4.

  In addition, the said embodiment is only what showed the example in implementation in implementing this invention, and, as a result, the technical scope of this invention should not be interpreted limitedly. In other words, the present invention can be implemented in various forms without departing from the spirit or main features thereof.

1 Toilet for single room 2 Control unit 3 Button 4 Detection unit 5, 5 'Shutter unit 5a Plate member 6 Interface W Wall surface D Door

Claims (1)

A toilet for a private room installed near a bed in a sickroom used by one patient,
A wall surface forming a space for the private room toilet;
A door that opens and closes to allow the patient to enter and exit the space;
A shutter portion that is provided on at least a part of the wall surface and the door and changes between a first state visible from the outside and a second state invisible from the outside;
A button the patient is operated upon using the private toilet, generating a call signal,
A detection unit for detecting the entrance and exit of the patient;
An interface for outputting a call signal generated by the button to a nurse call parent for notifying that the patient is using the toilet ;
When the call signal is generated by the button, the door is opened, and the door is closed when the detection unit detects that the patient has entered the space in this state. The patient exits the space from either the first control or the timing at which the call signal is generated by the button or the timing at which the detection unit detects that the patient has entered the space. Until the detection unit detects that, the control unit to perform the second control to bring the shutter unit into the first state,
A toilet for a private room characterized by comprising

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