JPH09580A - Medical care lift device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a medical care lift device having capability of transferring a handicapped person, an aged person or the like to any passenger car, and allowing an easy disassembly and assembly work. CONSTITUTION: A removable pillar 3 is erected at one side of each of the front and rear sections of a base frame 1 equipped with casters 2, and a fixed cylindrical shaft 25 is laid within the pillar 3. Also, a cylindrical arm 13 extended in such a state as crossing the upper end of a cylinder 11 coupled to the external surface of the shaft 25 is jointed via a gear case 12. This gear case 12 has a means for rotating a screw shaft 14 rotatable in the cylinder 11, and a means for rotating a shaft rotatable in the arm 13. Also, space between a screw cylinder 16 gearing with the shaft 14 and the shaft 25 is provided with an locking means A to support the downward load of the cylinder 16 and restricted for rotation, upon fitting of the cylinder 11 with the pillar 3 and the insertion of the shaft 14 in the shaft 25. On the other hand, the free end of the shaft 14 is fitted with a winder 21 rotatable as integral part thereof and capable of taking up a cord body 22 around the external surface thereof, and the winding body 22 is fitted with a holding seat 23 for a handicapped person.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a lift for nursing care, and more particularly, to moving a cared person such as a physically handicapped person or a bedridden elderly person between a floor, a bed, a wheelchair, a bathroom, a passenger car and the like. The present invention relates to a nursing care lift device used in.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is extremely hard for a caregiver to move a cared person such as a physically handicapped person or a bedridden elderly person from a bed to a wheelchair. Therefore, in order to reduce the burden on the caregiver, a caregiver can be hung on the tip of the lifting arm so that one caregiver can easily transfer the bed. Lifted from
Many lift devices are commercially available that can be moved to a wheelchair, toilet, etc. as they are and lowered. In recent years,
There is also a lift device in which a cared person's raising and lowering means and a lifting arm height adjusting means are separately provided so that they can be transferred to a passenger car.

[0003]

However, in the above-described conventional lift device, the height adjusting means of the lifting arm is constructed by inserting and removing the pin in order to enable disassembly and assembly, so that fine adjustment and care-giving are required. There is a drawback that the height cannot be adjusted while the person is being lifted, and the height cannot be adjusted depending on the type of vehicle. In addition, disassembling and assembling is difficult with a structure that uses expansion and contraction drive such as an actuator. Therefore, the present invention allows the height of the lifting arm to be adjusted as appropriate so that the cared person can be transferred to any vehicle model while being lifted, and can be disassembled and assembled at any time to load it on the trunk. The challenge is to make it a lift device.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is provided with casters 2 on one side of the front and rear of a base frame 1 which is rollable and movable, and which is a columnar pillar 3 which is detachable or foldable. Is provided upright, and a fixed cylinder shaft 25 for fixing the base side to the pillar 3 is provided in the pillar 3. On the other hand, the fixed cylinder shaft 25 is fitted into the pillar 3 and also fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the fixed cylinder shaft 25. On the upper end side of the cylinder 11, the cylinder 11
A cylindrical arm 13 extending in a crossing manner is connected via a gear case 12, and a means for rotating a rotatable screw shaft 14 which is appropriately supported in the cylindrical body 11 in the gear case 12 and the cylindrical arm 13 are provided. And a means for rotating a rotatable shaft 17 which is properly supported by the shaft, and a screw cylinder 16 which is screwed into the screw shaft 14. The screw cylinder 16 and the fixed cylinder shaft 25 are provided.
And the cylindrical body 11 is fitted to the support column 3 and the screw shaft 14
When the screw tube 16 is inserted into the fixed cylinder shaft 25, a locking means A for receiving the downward load of the screw cylinder 16 and restricting rotation is provided, while being received and rotated in the cylindrical arm 13. On the free end side of the shaft 17, there is provided a winding body 21 that rotates integrally with the shaft 17 and winds a cord-like body 22 around the outer periphery, and a holding sheet 23 for a physically handicapped person is attached to the cord-like body 22. A lifting device for nursing care characterized by being attached.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. Reference numeral 1 is a base frame, which is formed in a U-shape in a plan view by a pipe member. Casters 2, 2, ... Are rotatably attached to the four corners of the base frame 1 so that the base frame 1 can move freely on the floor surface.

Reference numeral 3 is a column made of a cylindrical member, which is erected on the base frame 1 through a column erection means 4. As shown in FIG. 3, the supporting column standing means 4 includes a C-shaped bracket 5 formed by axially cutting a part of a cylindrical body having an inner diameter slightly larger than that of the supporting column 3 in the base frame 1. Is vertically fixed to the bracket 5, and an upper outer peripheral portion of the bracket 5 is provided with a fastener 7 capable of appropriately reducing the inner diameter of the bracket 5 by operating a lever 6 to attach the support column 3 to the bracket 5.
4 and insert it upright with fasteners 7,
As described above, the two front and rear sides of the two plates 8a and 8b that are vertically stacked are connected to each other in a hinge-like manner so that they can be opened and closed.
Is fixed to the base frame 1 and the upper plate 8a is provided with the support 3
The pillar 3 is detachably or foldably erected by a method of fixing the lower ends of the two plates 8a and 8b and sandwiching the open / close sides of the two plates 8a and 8b with bolts 9a and nuts 9b with knobs to fix them. .

Reference numeral 10 denotes a hoisting arm that is mounted on the upper end of the column 3, and has a tubular body 11 fitted inside the upper end of the column 3, and a gear case 12 provided at the upper end of the tubular body 11. , The base is fixed to the gear case 12, and the cylindrical body 1
1 and a cylindrical arm 13 that extends in a crossed manner.

Inside the cylindrical body 11, there is provided a screw shaft 14 whose upper end is rotatably supported by a gear case 12 part. A crank-shaped handle 15 is connected to the upper end of the screw shaft 14, and the screw shaft 14 is integrally rotated by rotating the handle 15. Reference numeral 16 is a screw cylinder having a saw-toothed concavo-convex portion 16a on its lower surface, which is screwed to the screw shaft 14.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a shaft having both ends rotatably supported inside the cylindrical arm 13. An end of the shaft 17 on the gear case 12 side is projected into the gear case 12, a worm wheel gear 18 is attached to the end, and a worm gear 19 combined with the worm wheel gear 18 is provided in the gear case. Also 2
Reference numeral 0 denotes an operation handle for rotating the worm gear 19, and by rotating the operation handle 20, the shaft 17 is provided to rotate in an interlocking manner.
In addition, in this embodiment, each operation means is connected to the handles 15 and 2.
Although 0 is provided so as to be manually rotated, it may be configured to be electrically driven by connecting a motor capable of forward and reverse rotation operations.

Reference numeral 21 is a cylindrical winding body which is fixed to the end of the shaft 17 opposite to the gear case 12 and rotates integrally with the shaft 17. Then, one end of a cord-like body 22 made of a rope, a belt, a wire, or the like is fixed to the winding body 21, and the other end of the cord-like body 22 is wrapped around the care receiver and is suspended. A lifting holder 24 that can hook the end of the holding sheet 23 that is held is connected. That is,
When the shaft 17 is rotated, the winding body 21 rotates integrally,
The string-like body 22 is wrapped around the outer circumference of the winding body 21,
Alternatively, the care-receiver in the holding sheet 23 is provided so as to move up and down through the lifting holder 24 connected to the tip of the cord-like body 22 by being rotated in the reverse direction.

Reference numeral 25 denotes a cylindrical fixed cylindrical shaft having a diameter smaller than that of the cylindrical body 11 and into which the screw shaft 14 can be inserted, and a lower end portion thereof is fixed to a bracket 26 provided inside the pillar 3 in a vertical direction. Is standing upright. The fixed cylinder shaft 25 is provided at its upper end with an uneven portion 25a that meshes with the uneven portion 16a of the screw cylinder 16. That is, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, when the tubular body 11 is fitted to the support column 3, the fixed tubular shaft 25 is fitted inside the tubular body 11 and the screw shaft 14 is inserted into the fixed tubular shaft 25. Then, when the lower surface of the screw cylinder 16 comes into contact with the upper end of the fixed cylinder shaft 25, the screw cylinder 16 is received to hold the lifting arm 10 at that height, and further, the uneven portions 16a, 25a. Engage with each other to form locking means A for restricting rotation of the screw cylinder 16. Therefore, when the screw shaft 14 is rotated from the state shown in FIG. 7, the screw cylinder 16 is fixed by the locking means A, so that the cylinder body 11 slides downward or upward to increase the height of the lifting arm 10. It can be adjusted. Further, regardless of the position of the screw cylinder 16 on the screw shaft 14, the cylindrical body 11
The meshing of the concave and convex portions 16a and 16b can be disengaged only by pulling up, and the lifting arm 10 can be pulled out from the support column 3, and conversely, the cylindrical body 11 can be inserted into the support column 3 to be in use. The height adjustment range depends on the mutual relationship between the length of the screw shaft 14 and the length of the fixed cylindrical shaft 25. If it is desired to make the height larger than that of the embodiment, the lengths of the both may be increased. , Can be changed.

Reference numeral 27 is a rotation preventing means for the lifting arm 10. A bolt 27a with a knob is provided at the upper end of the support column 3 so as to move forward and backward in the radial direction of the support column 3, and the cylindrical body 11 fitted into the support column 3 is provided. The lifting arm 10 is fixed by pressing the outer wall with the tip of the bolt 27a.
Can be fixed at an appropriate rotation position. 28 is also
A pair of handle grips for operating the operation provided on both left and right sides of the support column 3 so that the direction can be easily changed when moving.

Next, the operation of the lift device having the above structure will be described. When a cared person such as a physically handicapped person or an elderly person on the bed is lifted by this lift device, the cared person is first wrapped on the holding sheet 23 on the bed. Then, after moving the lift device so that the lifting holder 24 is located above the care receiver, the end portion of the holding sheet 23 is hooked on the lifting holder 24. At this time, the operation handle 20 is operated to adjust the length of the string-like body 22,
The lifting holder 24 is set at a position where the holding sheet 23 can be easily hung. If the operation handle 20 is operated from this state and the string-like body 22 is wound around the winding body 21, the care-receiver can be lifted.

For example, when transferring to a wheelchair, the lift device is moved so that the cared person is located above the seating surface of the wheelchair in this lifted state, and then the operation handle 20 is operated to draw a cord. The body 22 may be unrolled from the winding body 21, the care-receiver may be lowered onto the seating surface of the wheelchair, and the holding sheet 23 may be removed. When transferring between floors, wheelchairs, beds, etc., if the tubular arm 13 is moved to a high position by operating the handle 15, the tubular arm can be lifted even when the cared person is lifted to the same height. Since 13 is moving away from the care receiver, there is no feeling of pressure. Further, if the suspension arm 10 is fixed by the rotation preventing means 27, the suspension arm 10 does not rotate naturally during movement, and can be stably moved.

Next, the transfer of a passenger car to the passenger seat will be described. First, the lift device that lifts the cared person is operated and brought closer from the passenger seat side. At this time, the cylindrical arm 13
The height is adjusted by the handle 15 so as to be positioned lower than the upper end of the door opening. Then, the operating handle 20 is operated to adjust the lifting height so that the cared person's buttocks are located higher than the seat upper surface of the passenger seat, and the cared person's top to buttocks enter the door opening space. After making it possible, move it to the passenger seat. From this state, the operation handle 20 is operated to lower the care receiver to the passenger seat, and the holding sheet 23 may be removed. In the case of hoisting from the passenger seat, the procedure reverse to the above may be performed, and the description thereof will be omitted.

When the lift device is disassembled for loading on the trunk of a passenger car, first, the rotation preventing means 27 is released and the lifting arm 10 is pulled up and removed.
The hoisting arm 10 only has the cylindrical body 11 fitted to the support column 3, and the screw cylinder 16 is fixed by the locking means A having a structure in which the uneven portion 16a meshes with the uneven portion 25a of the fixed cylinder shaft 25. Therefore, the screw cylinder 16 can be disassembled at any time regardless of the position of the screw shaft 14. Next, the pillar upright means 4 is released, and the pillar 3 is removed or folded, so that the pillar 3 can be easily loaded in the trunk. Also,
The assembling procedure may be exactly the reverse of the above disassembling procedure, and the pillar 3 is erected on the base frame 1 and the lifting arm 10 is inserted into the upper end of the pillar 3.

FIG. 9 shows a state in which this lift device is used for bathing assistance. This is to move the lift device that lifts the care recipient to the bathroom washroom and lift the lifting arm 10
Is rotated to the bathtub side, the handle 20 is operated to lower the care receiver into the bath to bathe the care receiver, but when the lifting arm 10 is rotated, the center of gravity of the load is outside the base frame 1. , The side of the base frame 1 opposite the column 3 floats up and falls. In order to prevent this, the fall prevention means 29 is attached when the lifting arm 10 is rotated. The fall prevention means 29 includes a support pipe 29a bent in an L-shape in a side view, and a horizontal pipe 29b having a base fixed to the upper end of the support pipe 29a and extending in the horizontal direction.
And the mounting portion 2 provided at the tip of the horizontal pipe 29b.
9c and. That is, the mounting portion 29c is attached to the pillar 3
When the load is attached to the outside of the base frame 1, the support pipe 29a is prevented from falling down.

After attaching the fall prevention means 29, the lifting arm 10 is rotated toward the bathtub to position the care receiver above the bathtub. At this time, since the support pipe 29a supports the support column 3, the lift device is safe without fear of falling. From this state, the care receiver can be easily bathed by gradually lowering it. To return the cared person to the washroom again, the operation exactly opposite to the above may be performed. Therefore, even one caregiver can easily assist in bathing.

Further, as shown in FIG. 10, if the columns 3 are erected on the sides of the bed, bathtub or the like, the lifting arm 10 can be replaced, and the column can be used in the same manner as a bed or a lift device for bathing. It is also economical because it can.

[0020]

As described above, in the nursing lift device according to the present invention, the height adjusting means for the lifting arm and the raising and lowering means for the cared person are separately provided, and the height adjusting means is appropriately provided. Since the screw shaft is adjustable so that the screw shaft can be moved forward and backward, and the screw cylinder that is screwed onto the screw shaft is fixed by the locking means, the lifting arm of the lifting arm can be changed due to the difference in the shape of the door opening when it is mounted on a passenger car. If you want to change the height, you can adjust the height even when the cared person is hoisted, and you can immediately disassemble and assemble regardless of the height of the lifting arm, making the lift extremely convenient and easy to use. It became a device.

[Brief description of drawings]

1] Overall side view

[Figure 2] Plan view

FIG. 3 is a front view showing an embodiment of a pillar standing means.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing another example of the pillar standing means.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing the structure of a lifting arm.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged sectional view showing a locking means.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged sectional view showing a locking means.

FIG. 8 is a side view showing a state of transferring to a passenger car.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of the action when bathing assistance

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram for changing the attachment of the lifting arm.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Base frame 2 Casters 3 Supports 11 Cylindrical body 12 Gear case 13 Cylindrical arm 14 Screw shaft 16 Screw cylinder 17 Shaft 21 Winding body 22 String-like body 23 Holding sheet 25 Fixed cylinder shaft A Locking means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A detachable or foldable cylindrical support column 3 is erected on one front and rear side of a base frame 1 equipped with casters 2 and capable of rolling movement, and the base side is provided in the support column 3. A fixed cylinder shaft 25 fixed to the support column 3 is provided, and on the other hand, on the upper end side of the cylinder body 11 that fits inside the support column 3 and also fits on the outer peripheral portion of the fixed cylinder shaft 25, this cylinder body 11 is provided.
A cylindrical arm 13 that extends in a crossed manner is connected via a gear case 12, and a means for rotating a rotatable screw shaft 14 that is appropriately supported in the cylindrical body 11 in the gear case 12 and the cylindrical arm 13 are provided. And a means for rotating a rotatable shaft 17 that is properly supported by the shaft, and a screw cylinder 16 that is screwed into the screw shaft 14, and the screw cylinder 16 and the fixed cylinder shaft 25.
And the cylindrical body 11 is fitted to the support column 3 and the screw shaft 14
When the screw tube 16 is inserted into the fixed cylinder shaft 25, a locking means A for receiving the downward load of the screw cylinder 16 and restricting rotation is provided, while being received and rotated in the cylindrical arm 13. On the free end side of the shaft 17, there is provided a winding body 21 that rotates integrally with the shaft 17 and winds a string-like body 22 around the outer circumference, and a holding sheet 23 for a physically handicapped person is provided on the string-like body 22. A lifting device for nursing care characterized by being attached.