JPH07308356A - Bathing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a bathing apparatus which is made hygienic, facilitates attending work such as running work or the like of a wheel chair and lessen amount of hot water to be used in a bathtub. CONSTITUTION:In this bathing apparatus, a person to be bathed sitting in a wheel chair 1 is shifted all with a chair part 11 at an upper part of the wheel chair to be located at a specified position inside a door opening/closing type bathtub 2 with a door 31 opened and, after the closing of the door, the door opening/closing type bathtub is filled with hot water to make the person to be bathed ready to take a bath. The wheel chair is made up of a running truck 10 with lower casters at a lower part thereof and a chair part 11 at an upper part thereof being separable from the running truck 10. The door opening/closing type bathtub is provided with left and right rails 36 extending deep from an opening thereof so as to be almost the same in width dimensions as the left and right rails 12 of the running truck of the wheel chair and also almost the same in the height position.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bathing apparatus combining a wheelchair and a door opening / closing bathtub, which is mainly capable of bathing a physically handicapped person or an elderly person in a sitting position.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An ordinary bathtub is in the shape of a box with its upper part open, and a bather must enter the bathtub by straddling a side wall, which makes it difficult for a physically handicapped person to take a bath. Therefore, the following bathing apparatus combining a wheelchair and a door opening / closing bathtub has been developed so that people with physical disabilities can easily take a bath.

That is, a bather is placed on a wheelchair and is run on a slope that is arranged so as to connect to the opening of a door openable bathtub whose door is opened. Intrude to a predetermined position inside. After that, close the door to close the opening of the main body of the openable bathtub in a watertight state,
A bathing device has been developed which fills the inside of the bathtub body with hot water so that a bather on a wheelchair can be placed in a sitting position in a bathing state (Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 4-61531, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-31531).
-See 193175).

[0004]

However, the above-mentioned conventional bathing device has the following problems. Since the wheelchair with the bather is run on the slope that is arranged so as to connect to the opening of the door opening and closing bathtub, the casters of the wheelchair enter the bathtub,
The casters may bring dirt on the floor of the corridor and bathroom into the bathtub, which is a sanitary problem. You must push the wheelchair with the bather on it while climbing the slope that connects to the door-opening bathtub, and the casters on the bottom of the wheelchair can change direction and the casters themselves are often wet. Therefore, it is difficult to move the wheelchair straight, and the assistance work is very troublesome. The bather takes a sitting posture on the wheelchair to take a bath, but the height of the caster of the wheelchair is required between the back of the foot of the bather and the bottom of the bathtub, and that much bathtub is required. As the water depth of the bath increases, the amount of hot water used in the bathtub increases.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances. In addition to allowing a bather to take a bath in a sitting posture, it is hygienic and assists work such as running a wheelchair. It is an object of the present invention to provide a bathing device that is easy and can reduce the amount of hot water used in a bath.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, in the invention according to claim 1, the bather placed on the wheelchair is transferred together with the chair part on the upper part of the wheelchair, and the door is opened and closed. After locating it at a predetermined position inside the formula bathtub and closing the door,
A bathing apparatus for putting the bather in a bathing state by filling the inside of the door-opening / closing bathtub with hot water, wherein the wheelchair includes a lower traveling carriage with casters and an upper chair portion of a traveling carriage. Rollers provided at the bottom of the chair run on the left and right rails provided at the upper part so that they can be separated from each other, and the door opening / closing bathtub has left and right rails extending inward from the opening of the door opening / closing bathtub. The rails are provided so as to have substantially the same width dimension and substantially the same height position as the left and right rails of the traveling carriage of the wheelchair.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the wheelchair is provided with a guided portion, and the door opening / closing bathtub is provided with a guiding portion corresponding to the guided portion. When the two are abutted against each other, the left and right rails on the door opening and closing bathtub side and the left and right rails on the wheelchair side are positioned on the same line so as to be continuous with each other.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a first lock mechanism is provided between the traveling carriage and the chair portion of the wheelchair for holding the two in a wheelchair state.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the guided portion and the guide portion are abutted between the traveling carriage of the wheelchair and the door opening / closing bath, so that the rail on the door opening / closing bath and the wheelchair. It is characterized in that a second lock mechanism is provided for holding the state in which the side rails are positioned on the same line so as to be continuous with each other.

[0010]

When the bathing apparatus of the present invention is used to bathe a bather, first, the bather is placed on a wheelchair, and each of the upper chair portions of the wheelchair is provided with a door opening / closing bathtub in which the door is opened in advance. Transfer inside and invade. Specifically, the wheelchair is positioned with respect to the door open / close bathtub so that the left and right rails on the upper part of the wheelchair traveling carriage are on the same axis as the left and right rails on the door open / close bathtub side. Then, move the chair with the bather still on it, and transfer from the rail on the wheelchair side to the rail on the openable door tub side. Next, the bather can be put into a bathing state by closing the door of the openable-closed bathtub and filling the inside of the openable-closed bathtub with hot water.

In this case, the traveling carriage with casters at the lower part of the wheelchair is sanitary because it is left outside the door opening / closing bathtub and does not enter the bathtub body. In addition, the wheelchair only needs to run on the floor of the bathroom, and the chair part of the wheelchair uses the lower roller to move from the rail on the wheelchair side that is arranged so as to be on the same axis line to the door openable bathtub side. Since it is sufficient to transfer to the rail, there is no need for a wheelchair or the like to go up the slope, and the assistance work for transferring the bather to the bathtub becomes easy.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a side sectional view of the bathing apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front sectional view of the bathing apparatus, and FIG. 3 is a plan sectional view of the bathing apparatus.

As shown in these figures, the bathing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a wheelchair 1 on which a bather is placed, and a wheelchair 1 which is placed at a predetermined inward position with the bather on the bathtub. By satisfying the above condition, the open / close door-type bathtub 2 makes the bather enter the bathing state.

First, the wheelchair 1 will be described with reference to FIG.
As also shown, the wheelchair 1 includes a traveling carriage 10 having casters 10a on the lower side and a chair portion 11 on the upper side. Left and right rails 12, 12 are attached to the upper part of the traveling carriage 10 in parallel with each other. The chair portion 11 has a plurality of left and right rollers 13, which run on the rails 12, 12 at the bottom.
A chair part frame 14 having ... And the chair part frame 1
4, a footrest 15, a seat 16,
And a backrest portion 17.

The footrest 15 is shown by a solid line and 2 in FIG.
As shown by the dashed lines, the footrest tilting mechanism (not shown) interposed between the seat 16 and the seat 16 selectively sets the lower position or the upper position. Further, in the state of the upper position, the height of the footrest 15 is set above the upper surface of the bottom portion 33 of the door opening / closing bathtub 2.

Reference numeral 20 is a first lock mechanism. This first
The lock mechanism 20 of the traveling carriage 10 and the chair portion 11,
The wheelchair 1 is fixed at a position where it is formed. Specifically, the rod 21 is inserted so as to vertically penetrate the chair portion 11.
Is provided, the rod 21 is always urged downward by a spring, and the lower end thereof is inserted into the engaging hole 10b provided on the upper surface of the traveling carriage 10 to be in a locked state. To release the locked state, the handle 24 supported by the bracket provided on the chair 11 is operated to
It suffices to lift the rod 21 pin-connected to the tip of the above.

26 is a handrail extending from the backrest portion 2
Reference numeral 7 is a guide member arranged inside the rollers 13, 13. Further, in FIG. 2, reference numeral 28 is a floating stop member provided on both left and right sides of the chair 11. Floating prevention member 28
Is engaged with a locked portion 29 provided on the traveling carriage 10, and, for example, when a bather sitting on the chair 11 leans his body in the left-right direction and a moment in the left-right direction is applied to the chair 11. However, it prevents the chair portion 11 from rising from the traveling carriage 10.

The door opening / closing bathtub 2 is a door opening / closing bathtub body 3 whose front surface (the left side in FIG. 1 is the front surface) is opened.
It consists of 0 and a door 31. Door 31 is a door opening / closing type bathtub body 3
It is hinge-coupled to 0, and locking means (not shown) for holding the door 31 in a closed state is provided between the door opening and closing bathtub body 30.

The door opening / closing bathtub body 30 is adjusted so that the bottom 33 is in a substantially horizontal state by height adjusting means formed by screwing a bolt to a nut fixed to a bathtub body frame (not shown). Is installed on the floor surface of. Protruding portions 34a and 35a are provided below the left and right inner wall portions 34 and 35 of the door opening / closing bathtub body 30 (see FIGS. 2 and 3). The projecting portions 34a and 35a are large in the back side and are small in the opening side in the front, with a stepped portion provided in the substantially center as a boundary. Left and right rails 36, 36 are provided on the upper surfaces of the overhang portions 34a, 35a, and the door opening / closing bath 30
Is provided so as to extend inward from the opening. The left and right rails 36, 36 are arranged so as to have substantially the same width dimension as the left and right rails 12 of the traveling carriage 10 of the wheelchair 1 and at substantially the same height position.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, guides 40, 40 are disposed on the front surface of the door opening / closing bath body 30. The guide portion 40 is formed by forming an arcuate concave portion on the front surface of a flat plate 41 provided on the front surface of the door opening / closing bathtub body 30, and is integrally formed with the support portion of the caster 10a of the wheelchair 1. The wheelchair 1 is mounted on the door opening / closing bathtub body 30 so that the formed disk-shaped guided portion 42 is engaged so that the door opening / closing bathtub side rails 36, 36 and the wheelchair side rails 12, 12 are continuous with each other. It is to be positioned with respect to. The flat plate 41 is fixedly provided at a position that does not hinder the opening and closing of the door 31.

Reference numeral 43 is a second lock mechanism provided between the traveling carriage 10 of the wheelchair 1 and the door opening / closing bathtub body 30. The second locking mechanism is the flat plate 41.
A lock hole 44 formed substantially in the center in the left-right direction, and a rod that is swingably provided on the traveling carriage 10 and is biased by a biasing member (not shown) so that its tip is inserted into the lock hole 44. 45, and the left and right rails 36 on the side of the door opening / closing bathtub 2 and the left and right rails 12 on the side of the wheelchair 1 are the same so as to be continuous with each other when in a locked state in which the tip of the rod 45 is inserted into the lock hole 44. It maintains the state of being positioned on the line. In order to release the second lock mechanism 43 from the locked state, an assistant or the like depresses a foot portion (not shown) interlocked with the rod 45 to rotate the rod 45 against the biasing member. The rod 45 may be moved and the tip of the rod 45 may be pulled out from the lock hole 44. Reference numeral 47 is a seal member provided on the inner surface of the door 31 on the side of the door opening / closing bath.

The door opening / closing bathtub 2 has a tank 60 for storing hot water in the door opening / closing bathtub 2 and a hot water supply / discharging means 61 for putting hot water in and out of the door opening / closing bathtub 2 and the tank 60. It is attached. Explaining the hot water supply / drainage means 61, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the hot water supply / drainage port 62 of the tank 60 is shown.
Is connected to a three-way valve 64 via a pipe 63a, and pipes 63b and 63c extending from the three-way valve 64 are vertically divided. A pump 65 is interposed between the vertically divided pipes 63b and 63c via a pipe 63d extending in the vertical direction. further,
Another three-way valve 66 is connected to the pipes 63e and 63f provided on the extension of the pipes 63b and 63c, and the three-way valve 66 is connected via the pipe 63g to the door opening / closing bathtub body 30.
It is connected to the hot water supply / exhaust hot water outlet 67.

Therefore, the three-way valves 64, 66 are controlled by a control means (not shown), whereby when the hot water is returned from the door opening / closing bath body 30 to the tank 60, the hot water is, as indicated by the broken line in the figure, From the hot water supply / exhaust port 67 of the door opening / closing bathtub body 30 to the suction side of the pump 65 via the pipe 63g, the three-way valve 66, and the pipe 63f, and from the discharge side of the pump 65, the pipe 63b, the three-way valve 64, and the pipe 63a.
To the tank 60 via. On the contrary, when the hot water is supplied from the tank 60 to the main body 30 of the openable / closable door, hot water is supplied from the hot and cold water outlet 62 of the tank 60 through the pipe 63a, the three-way valve 64, and the pipe 63c as shown by the solid line in the figure. To the suction side of the pump 65, and from the discharge side of the pump 65 to the door opening / closing bathtub body 30 via the pipe 63e, the three-way valve 66, and the pipe 63g.

Next, the operation of the bathing device having the above structure will be described. When bathing a bather with the bathing apparatus described above, first, the bather is placed on the wheelchair 1 and the footrest 15 is pulled up to the upper position. Then
The door 31 of the door opening / closing bathtub 2 is opened, the wheelchair 1 is opposed to the opening of the door opening / closing bathtub 2, and in this state, the guided portion 42 on the wheelchair 1 side is the guided portion on the door opening / closing bathtub 2 side. The wheelchair 1 is accurately positioned with respect to the door opening / closing bathtub 2 so as to face 40. Thus, the guided portion 42 on the wheelchair 1 side
When the wheelchair is positioned so that it abuts the guided portion 40 on the side of the door open / close bathtub 2, at the same time, the left and right rails 12 on the side of the wheelchair 1 leave a slight gap, and the left and right rails on the side of the door open / close bathtub. It will be located on the same axis so as to be continuous with 36. Then, the second lock mechanism 43 fixes the wheelchair 1 to the door open / close bathtub 2 so as not to move.

In this state, the handle 24 is operated to release the lock by the first lock mechanism 20, and then the chair 11 is kept in a state in which the bather is placed, and the lower carriage 13 is used to move the chair 10. Transfer from the rail 12 to the rail 36 on the door opening / closing bathtub 2 side, and transfer to a predetermined position at the back of the rail 36. In this way, the door 31 is opened and the wheelchair 1 is opened in this way.
Needless to say, the hot water in the door open / close bathtub 2 is first transferred to the tank 60 in advance when the bather enters the door open / close bathtub 2 in advance.

Next, after removing the traveling carriage 10 left outside the door opening / closing bathtub 2 from the opening of the door opening / closing bathtub 2, the door 31 of the door opening / closing bathtub 2 is closed to remove the door opening / closing bathtub 2. Fill hot water inside. That is, by switching the three-way valves 64, 66 of the hot and cold water supply means 61 to appropriate positions based on a signal from a control unit (not shown) and operating the pump 65, the hot water stored in the tank 60 is opened and closed by a door open / close bathtub. It is supplied into the main body 30. As a result, the bather can be put in a bathing state in a sitting posture.

At the time of bathing, the traveling carriage 10 with casters at the bottom of the wheelchair 1 remains sanitary outside the door opening / closing bathtub 2 and does not enter the inside of the door opening / closing bathtub body 30, which is hygienic. In addition, the wheelchair 1 only needs to run on the floor of the bathroom, and the chair portion 11 of the wheelchair 1 uses the lower roller 13 so that the wheelchair side rail is arranged on the same axis. It is sufficient to transfer from 12 to the rail 36 on the door opening / closing bathtub side, and it is not necessary for the wheelchair or the like to climb the slope, and the assistance work for transferring the bather to the bathtub becomes easy. Next, when the bather takes a bath, each member of the bathing device may be operated in the opposite manner to the above.

In the above embodiment, when the chair portion 11 of the wheelchair 1 is transferred to a predetermined position in the door opening / closing bathtub body 30, a lock mechanism for holding the chair portion at that position is not provided. However, the lock mechanism may be provided if necessary.

[0029]

According to the first aspect of the invention, in the wheelchair, the lower traveling carriage with casters and the upper chair portion have the upper surface of the rail provided on the upper portion of the traveling carriage as the lower portion of the chair portion. Rollers provided are configured to be separable from each other by rolling, and a rail that extends inward from the opening of the door opening / closing bathtub has substantially the same width as the rail of the traveling carriage of the wheelchair. Moreover, since the heights are set to be almost the same, the traveling carriage with casters at the bottom of the wheelchair remains inside the bathtub main body while being left outside the openable bathtub when bathing a bather. The inside of the bathtub is sanitary because it does not enter, and when bathing a bather, it is sufficient to simply move the wheelchair on the floor of the bathroom, and the chair part will be on the same axis using the lower roller. Arranged as That since sufficient to transfer to the door openable tub side rails from the wheelchair of the rail, without the need for such a wheelchair or the like climb a slope, assistance operations for transferring the bather to tub is facilitated. In addition, since there is no traveling carriage below the chair when taking a bath, the amount of hot water used in the bath can be reduced accordingly.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the guided portion of the wheelchair is butted against the guiding portion of the door opening / closing bathtub, so that the rail on the wheelchair side is continuous with the rail on the door opening / closing bathtub side. Thus, the wheelchair can be easily positioned with respect to the door opening / closing bathtub.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the first lock mechanism is provided between the traveling carriage of the wheelchair and the chair portion so as to connect the two at a regular position. Therefore, the bather can be placed on the chair portion. It is possible to prevent inconvenience that the chair portion is inadvertently displaced from the traveling carriage when the vehicle is placed and the corridor or the like is transferred.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when the chair portion is transferred from the traveling trolley to the door opening / closing bathtub body side with the bather placed on the upper portion thereof, the door is opened / closed by the second lock mechanism. The traveling carriage can be prevented from inadvertently moving with respect to the main body of the type bathtub, and therefore, the work of transferring the chair portion from the traveling carriage to the side of the door opening / closing type bathtub body can be performed safely and promptly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of a bathing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front sectional view of the bathing apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a plan sectional view of the bathing apparatus.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing details of a wheelchair.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a relationship between a wheelchair and a door opening / closing bathtub body.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Wheelchair 2 Door opening / closing bathtub 10 Traveling carriage 11 Chair part 12 Rail 13 Roller 15 Footrest 20 First lock mechanism 27 Guide part 30 Door opening / closing bathtub body 31 Door 34a Inner wall overhang 35a Inner wall overhang 36 Rail 43 Second Locking Mechanism 61 Hot Water Supply / Drainage Means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A bather placed on a wheelchair is transferred together with a chair portion on the upper part of the wheelchair, the door is positioned at a predetermined position inside an openable door tub, the door is closed, and then the door is opened and closed. A bathing device that puts a bather in a bathing state by filling hot water in a bathtub, wherein the wheelchair includes a lower traveling carriage with casters and an upper chair portion provided on an upper portion of the traveling carriage. The rollers provided at the lower part of the chair section on the left and right rails are configured to be separable from each other by running, and the door opening / closing bath has left and right rails extending inward from the opening of the door opening / closing bath. A bathing device, which is provided so as to have substantially the same width dimension as the left and right rails of a traveling wheelchair of a wheelchair and to be at substantially the same height position. 2. The bathing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wheelchair is provided with a guided portion, and the door opening / closing bathtub is provided with a guiding portion corresponding to the guided portion. A bathing device characterized in that when the guide part is abutted, the left and right rails on the door opening and closing bathtub side and the left and right rails on the wheelchair side are positioned on the same line so as to be continuous with each other. 3. The bathing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a first lock mechanism is provided between the traveling carriage and the chair portion of the wheelchair for holding both in a wheelchair state. A characteristic bathing device. 4. The bathing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein between the traveling carriage of the wheelchair and the door opening / closing bathtub,
A second lock mechanism is provided which holds the state in which the guided portion and the guiding portion are butted against each other and the rails on the door opening / closing bathtub side and the rails on the wheelchair side are positioned on the same line so as to be continuous with each other. A bathing device characterized in that