JPH0632644B2 - Patient carrier - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a patient transporting machine which is easy for a caregiver to perform and is easy on the caregiver when a patient lying on a bed is moved to a desired place.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the problems to be solved by the invention
When moving a patient sleeping in bed to the desired location,
Two caregivers took the patient's upper body and lower body separately and moved the patient to a transport vehicle, or the entire body of the patient, and moved them to the desired location. It was a laborious task for both the caregiver and the caregiver.

The present invention has a technical object to provide a patient transporter which solves this problem.

[0004]

The gist of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

An extendable and retractable support body 2 is erected on a movable machine base 1, and a bed body 3 on which a patient is placed is provided on one side of the support body 2. The bed body 3 is placed on the upper body of the patient. Upper body placing part 4 to be placed and lower body placing part 5 to which the lower body of the patient is placed
And the upper half body placing part 4 are formed by a back placing part 6 and a back side buttocks placing part 7, and the back placing part 6 and the back side buttocks placing part 7 can be bent. The lower body placing section 5 is formed by the leg side buttocks placing section 8 and the leg placing section 9, and the leg side buttocks placing section 8 and the leg placing section 9 are provided to be bendable, and the back side buttocks placing section 5 is provided. Notch portions 7 ′ and 8 ′ are respectively formed in substantially the center of the contact end surfaces of the placing portion 7 and the leg side buttocks placing portion 8 to form end faces of the back side buttocks placing portion 7 and the leg side buttocks placing portion 8 respectively. Is provided so that an opening window portion 10 is formed substantially in the center when and are contacted with each other, and the upper half body placing portion 4 and the lower half body placing portion 5 are provided rotatably around the supporting body 2 in the same horizontal plane. It is a thing.

[0006]

Operation: The upper body placing portion 4 and the lower body placing portion 5 are opened and rotated so that the upper body placing portion 4 and the lower body placing portion 5 face each other, and in this state, the machine bed 1 is recumbent by the patient. Move to the center of the bed 51 (see Fig. 3). In this state, the upper half-body placing section 4 and the lower half-body placing section 5 are positioned at a right angle to the bed side.

The support 2 of the machine base 1 is expanded and contracted so that the height of the bed 3 is slightly higher than the height of the bed 51 of the patient.
Raise the upper body of the sleeping patient, rotate the upper body placing section 4 to position the upper body placing section 4 on the bed 51 of the patient (see FIG. 4), and return the patient to the original state. Placing the upper half of the patient on the upper half placing part 4, then lifting the lower half of the patient, and rotating the lower half placing part 5 to place the lower half on the lower half placing part 5 as described above. The patient is placed on the bed 3 from the patient's bed (see FIG. 5),
Therefore, the patient can be transported to a desired place by moving the machine base 1.

Further, the upper half body placing portion 4 is formed by a back placing portion 6 and a back side hip placing portion 7, and the back placing portion 6 and the back hip placing portion 7 are provided so as to be bendable. Therefore, the patient's burden can be reduced by raising the backrest part 6 when placing the patient on the upper body placement part 4, and the lower body placement part 5 can be replaced by the leg side hip placement part 8 and the leg placement part. And the leg side buttocks mounting portion 8 and the leg mounting portion 9
Since and are provided so as to be bendable, the burden on the patient is similarly reduced.

Further, since an opening window portion 10 is formed substantially at the center of the contact portion between the back side buttocks placing portion 7 and the leg side buttocks placing portion 8,
The patient's buttocks are located on this opening window portion 10, and therefore the patient's buttocks are prevented from being caught by the contact between the back side buttocks placing portion and the leg side buttocks placing portion 8.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention.
A support rod 12 is erected on the machine base 1 with casters 11, and the support rod 12 is
A support cylinder 13 is fitted to the support cylinder 12, and an electric power cylinder 14 for raising and lowering the shaft which is moved up and down by a ball screw operation by a battery power source is attached to the upper portion of the support cylinder 13. It is fixed to the top of the support rod 12.

A support casing 15 is attached to the front side of the support cylinder 13, and support shafts 16 and 17 are vertically installed at the left and right ends of the support casing 15.
・ Support plates 18 ・ 19 that project the lower part of 17 obliquely forward from the support cylinder 13.
The support cylinders 20 and 21 that are horizontally rotatable but cannot move up and down are loosely fitted to the support shafts 16 and 17.

A bed body 3 comprising an upper half-body placing section 4 and a lower half-body placing section 5 is provided on the front side of the support cylinder 13, and support rods 22 and 23 are provided on one side of the upper half-body placing section 4 and the lower half-body placing section 5. Stand up, weld the upper part of the support rods 22 and 23 to the lower part of the support cylinders 20 and 21,
Locking pieces 52 and 53 are fixed to the support cylinders 20 and 21. .

An electric power cylinder 24 for a battery-operated upper body placing portion for rotating the upper body placing portion 4 is attached below the supporting casing 15, and a base 25 thereof is pivotally attached to a lower portion of the supporting casing 15.
The tip of a shaft portion (26) that expands and contracts by a ball screw provided in the electric power cylinder (24) for the upper half body placing portion is pivotally attached to the locking piece (52) on the upper portion of the support cylinder (20).

A battery-powered lower body placing electric power cylinder 27 for rotating the lower body placing portion 5 is provided below the upper body placing electric power cylinder 24, and a base portion 28 thereof is provided.
Is supported by a bearing 29 that is erected from the support plate 18, and a tip end of a shaft portion 30 that expands and contracts by a ball screw provided in the lower body placing electric power cylinder 27 rotates the lower body placing portion 5 with a support cylinder 21. It is pivotally attached to the locking piece 53 attached to the.

The machine base 1 supported by four casters 11 which can easily turn in the traveling direction is pushed onto the floor to move the machine base 1
Is moved to the center of the side of the bed 51 where the patient is lying down, and the upper body placing section 4 and the lower body placing section 5 are positioned on the side of the bed 51 at substantially right angles.

When the up-and-down electric power cylinder 14 is driven, the support cylinder 13 attached to the up-and-down electric power cylinder 14 moves up and down by the screw operation using the outer diameter portion of the support rod 12 as a guide. The support casing 15, the support shafts 16 and 17, the support cylinders 20 and 21, and the support rods 22 and 23 attached to the
The upper and lower body rests 4 and 5 attached to the support rods 22 and 23 ascend and descend using the as a guide. Therefore, the height of the bed body 3 can be freely adjusted by operating the lifting / lowering electric power cylinder 14.

When the upper body resting electric power cylinder 24 is operated in a contracting direction, the shaft portion 26 of the upper body resting electric power cylinder 24 pivotally attached to the locking piece 52 of the support cylinder 20.
2, the locking piece 52 rotates clockwise around the support shaft 16 as a support shaft as shown in FIG. 2, so that the support rod 22 welded to the lower portion of the support cylinder 20 pivotally attached to the support shaft 16 is also supported. Support shaft as well
It rotates about 16 as a fulcrum, and as a result, the upper body rest 4 is shown in FIG.
It will be installed at the position indicated by the chain line.

On the contrary, the electric power cylinder 24 for the upper body placing part
2 is extended, the upper body placing part 4 is rotated counterclockwise from the position indicated by the chain line in FIG. 2 and installed at the position shown in FIG.

Also, an electric power cylinder for the lower body placing portion
When the lever 27 is operated in the contracting direction, the shaft portion 30 of the lower body resting electric power cylinder 27 contracts, and the locking piece 53 rotates counterclockwise in FIG. Therefore, the support rod 23 welded to the lower portion of the support cylinder 21 pivotally attached to the support shaft 17 also rotates around the support shaft 17 as a support shaft, and as a result, the lower body rest portion 5 is indicated by the chain line in FIG. It is installed at the position (when the lower body placing electric power 27 is extended, the description is omitted because it is similar to the above).

A vertical rod is provided on the upper surface of the support casing 15 on the upper body placement portion 4 side.
31 is provided upright, an upper locking piece 32 is attached to the head thereof, and the upper locking plate 32 and the lower locking plate on one side of the back placing portion 6 of the upper half body placing portion 4
A bending electric cylinder 33 in which a shaft is projected and retracted by a ball screw operation by a battery power supply is laid between 37, and a base portion 34 and an upper locking plate 32 of the bending electric cylinder 33 are moved forward and backward.
Connected by a short link chain (so-called chain) 35 having a structure of 2 to 3 links that can be freely rotated in the left and right directions, and the tip of the shaft portion 36 of the bending electric cylinder 33 is connected to the lower locking plate 37 of the backrest portion 6.
Pivot to.

When the tip end of the shaft portion 36 of the bending electric cylinder 33 is operated in a contracting direction, the tip end of the backrest portion 6 forms a continuous portion of the backrest portion 6 and the backside buttocks portion 7. Since the bent portion 38 is pivoted upward, the patient can be placed on the bed 3 with the upper body upright.

Further, the lower half body placing portion 5 is formed by the leg side hip placing portion 8 and the leg placing portion 9, and is provided in the connecting portion between the leg placing portion 9 and the leg side buttopping portion 8. A bending shaft 39 having a hinge-like joint is provided, and the leg mounting portion 9 is provided so as to be vertically bendable with respect to the leg side buttocks mounting portion 8 with the bending shaft 39 serving as a support shaft, and one side of the bending shaft 39 is provided. A fixed vertical rod 40 is erected upright, and a semicircular pawl wheel 41 having the bending shaft 39 as the center of rotation is fixed to one side of the leg mounting portion 9.

A fulcrum 42 is provided at an appropriate position on the fixed vertical rod 40, and the base of the ratchet handle 43 is pivotally attached to this fulcrum. It is attached to the meshed state. Therefore,
The leg rest 9 is capable of rotating in a stepwise manner with a click only around the bent portion 39 as a support shaft, but the pawl portion 44 interferes with the ratchet teeth 54 of the pawl wheel 41 and prevents reverse rotation. Due to the existence of the so-called ratchet mechanism, the leg rest 9 does not rotate downward.

When the ratchet handle 43 is gripped, the pawl portion 44
Since the engagement between the tip of the leg and the ratchet portion of the ratchet wheel 41 is released, the tip of the leg rest 9 can be rotated downward. Therefore, when the ratchet handle 43 is grasped to adjust the leg placing portion 9 to a desired angle and the hand is released from the ratchet handle 43, the ratchet mechanism causes the pawl portion 44 to mesh with the ratchet teeth of the ratchet wheel 41. It becomes a "stop", and the bending angle of the leg rest 9 is maintained.

When the leg rest 9 is returned to its original position, the ratchet teeth 54 and the pawl 44 of the ratchet wheel 41 are intermittently rotated by rotating the tip of the leg rest 9 upward. Upon operation, the ratchet teeth are rotated while meshing with the teeth of the ratchet teeth. Therefore, if the rotation of the leg rest 9 is stopped at an appropriate angle, the leg rest 9 is held at that position.

Reference numeral 45 in the figure denotes a back spring.

Further, an electromagnet 46 and the like are attached to the facing abutting portions of the upper half body placing portion 4 and the lower half body placing portion 5, and the two are strengthened by being locked by an operation switch.

Further, the locking rod 57 is hung between the locking members 55 and 56 and the locking rod 57 is attached to the bed body 3 so that the upper half body placing part 4 and the lower half body placing part 5 are The rotation is blocked, and the bed body 3 is fixed as one body.

Further, an L-shaped gripping rod 58 which traverses the bed 3 connected to the locking rod 57 is set to a height within the reach of a reclining patient, and the tip of the lateral rod portion is set. By removably providing the support casing 15 to the upper body placing part 4 and the lower body placing part 5 as an integrated body, while the patient is lying down, reach out and grasp the grip bar. Some actions can be performed.

Further, the cutouts 7 ', 8'on the abutting end surfaces of the back side buttocks placing portion 7 and the leg side buttocks placing portion 8 are windows 10 for preventing the patient's buttocks from being caught.

The electric power cylinders of this embodiment are
Although a cylinder driven by an optimum battery power source is used for this type of patient carrier, a cylinder using another power source such as a commercial power source, oil, or a pneumatic pressure source may be used.

Reference numeral 48 is a battery box, 49 is a switchboard, and 50 is an operation box (including lock / unlock of the electromagnet 46).

[0033]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, when a patient sleeping on a bed is moved to a desired place, two caregivers take the upper body and the lower body of the patient as in the conventional case. The patient can be moved to a desired place without burdening the patient or the caregiver without separately holding and moving the patient to a carrier or moving the patient's entire body. It will provide an excellent patient carrier.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a usage state of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a partly cutaway main part showing a mechanism for rotating about a support body of an upper half body placing part and a lower half body placing part according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a usage state of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a usage state of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a usage state of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Machine stand 2 Support body 3 Bed body 4 Upper half body placing part 5 Lower half body placing part 6 Back placing part 7 Dorsal buttocks placing part 7'Notch part 8 Leg side buttocks placing part 8'Notch part 9 Leg placing part Part 10 Opening window

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An extendable and retractable support member is erected on a movable machine base, and a bed member on which a patient is placed is provided on one side of the support member.
This bed body is provided so as to be separable into an upper body placing part on which the upper half of the patient is placed and a lower half placing part on which the lower half of the patient is placed, and the upper half placing part is placed on the back placing part and the back side mounting. The back rest portion and the back side buttocks portion are provided so as to be bendable, and the lower body rest portion is formed by the leg side buttocks portion and the leg rest portion. The placing portion and the leg placing portion are provided so as to be bendable, and the notch portions are formed substantially at the center of the contact end surfaces of the back side buttocks placing portion and the leg side buttocks placing portion, respectively. When the end face and the end face of the leg-side buttocks placing part are brought into contact with each other, an opening window is formed in substantially the center, and the upper half body placing part and the lower half body placing part are centered on the fulcrum in the same horizontal plane. A patient carrier characterized in that it is rotatably installed on the.