JPH07284512A - Weight adjusting device for medical treatment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform living action and rehabilitation by one's own efforts by constituting this device of an air compressor, a low voltage air regulator for weight level setting and an air cylinder, etc., to enable weight to be adjusted and to reduce burden on the physical strength of a principal. CONSTITUTION:The air compressor 1 is connected to the pressurized room 6 of the air cylinder 8 with a pressurized tube 2. Also, one low voltage air regulator 3 for weight level setting and one low voltage air regulator 4 for internal pressure adjustment are arranged in the midst of the pressurizing tube 2. Moreover, the air cylinder 8 is separated to the pressurized room 6 connected to the pressurized tube 2 and an outside air room 7 opened to the outside air by a freely slidable gate valve 5, and it is installed solidly on a ceiling, etc. A rod 14 pierces through the air cylinder 8 airtightly formed integrally with the gate valve 5 on a pressurized room 6 side that is a direction to pressurize the pressurized room 6, and a suspending tool 9 is provided by suspending on the tip of the rod by a string 16. The suspending tool 9 can be loaded on the hand, the foot, the head, the bust and the waist.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention allows the user to adjust his / her body weight to reduce the physical load on the person himself / herself so that he / she can perform life activities (moving to a wheelchair, bathing, toilet, etc.) and rehabilitation (function recovery training) by himself. In addition, the present invention relates to a medical weight adjusting device for reducing the burden on a nurse and efficiently and reasonably recovering the decreased muscle strength, exercise capacity, and visceral function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As one of the criteria for judging a decrease in physical strength of a person, whether he can jump, can bend (squat), can walk, can move from a bed to a wheelchair, etc. You can do it, you can move your limbs while lying down, or you can not move your limbs.

[0003] Conventionally, when the physical strength is lowered, there is no choice but to have a nurse support the weight or to support the body by putting weight on a hand pickpocket or the like. To get up, the nurse should hang on to a shelf or to wake up, and the nurse should move to the wheelchair by himself or herself, to get up, hold with a hand pickpocket, etc. If you can walk with, you will be able to do flexion and extension exercises by grasping with a hand pickle. If you can jump, you don't need to worry about the deterioration of physical strength.

[0004]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The physical burden on a nurse who cares for a person whose physical strength has decreased is very large. Waking up, raising, supporting, holding and moving a sleeping person is a heavy labor and often physical injury. Even for the person who receives the nursing, the effect that the muscular strength, the motor ability, and the visceral function are likely to recover by the nursing by the nurse cannot be expected so much. Although there is data that even if the person is bedridden, the nurse can move to stimulate the body to recover, but it is difficult to carry it out considering the burden on the nurse.
In addition, there is also the aspect of feeling mentally burdened by having to get people to assist in activities such as getting up, moving, taking baths, taking toilets, and doing rehabilitation.

In rehabilitation (function recovery training), the most important condition for recovery is to move the body by oneself. Independent spirit, nervous system, muscular movement, flexion and extension of joints, painful sensations, etc. are combined to exert a great effect by foot-back. However, in order to move a limb, get up from the bed, move to a wheelchair, grab a hand on a hand-pile, walk, bend, and jump, it is necessary to have a force commensurate with the stage. And most of that force is against gravity. The force against gravity is the force to support the body weight, and the force required for this plus movement is equal to the force required to exercise. Here, the problem is that the physical strength is low and the person is barely able to perform some exercise, and the case where he / she has a force necessary for the movement even though he / she cannot perform some exercise. In the case of a person who can perform some kind of exercise, the rehabilitation exercise is very painful and the effect is slow to appear, and during that time, if the physical strength etc. declines, the exercise cannot be performed, and it will only get worse. It can be said that this is a result of the rehabilitation having imposed a load more than suitable for recovery. If the person has a force necessary for the movement even if he / she cannot perform some kind of exercise, he / she does not move because he / she cannot exercise because he / she has a certain level of physical strength.

[0006] When both humans and animals cannot walk, their functions such as physical strength deteriorate immediately. In particular, it is remarkable in visceral function, and rhythmical vertical movement and moderate impact promote activation of visceral function. Bending and stretching and jumping cultivate physical strength and increase instantaneous power, but also have the effect of strongly stimulating internal organs. Walking is good training for functional recovery, but the amount of walking tends to decrease as the function such as physical strength decreases. To walk, you need a force commensurate with it. And most of that force is against gravity. The force against gravity is the force to support the weight, and the force necessary for this plus walking motion is equal to the force necessary for walking motion. The problem here is when the physical strength is low and the person is able to walk, and when the person cannot walk, but has a force required for walking. In the case of the last minute walking movement, the rehabilitation exercise of walking by grasping with a hand-pull is very painful and the effect does not appear slowly. become. This can be said to be the result that the exercise training imposes a load more than is suitable for recovery. Even if you can not walk, if you have the force required for walking, you have a certain amount of physical strength, but you can not walk because you can not move, so your walking ability will continue to decline. become.

Conventionally, the recovery effect of rehabilitation, achievement results, etc. are subjective evaluations of the nurse and the person himself, not objective data. For this reason, it was extremely difficult to motivate the person himself and proceed with rehabilitation rationally.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to an air compressor, a pressurizing tube having one side connected to the air compressor, and one or more required number of adjustable weight level disposed in the middle of the pressurizing tube. A low-pressure air regulator, an adjustable low-pressure air regulator for adjusting internal pressure located in the middle of the pressurizing pipe, and a pressurizing chamber to which the other end of the pressurizing pipe is connected by a slidable sluice valve and the outside air opened to the outside air. It consists of an air cylinder that is divided into chambers and a suspending device that hangs down in a direction that pressurizes the pressurizing chamber in conjunction with a sluice valve that is installed inside the firmly installed air cylinder. The present invention relates to a medical treatment weight adjusting device.

The present invention relates to an air compressor, an openable and closable pressurizing pipe, one of which is connected to the air compressor, and at least one required number of low pressure air regulators for adjusting the body weight level, which are arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe. And an adjustable low-pressure air regulator for adjusting the internal pressure arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe, a pressurizing chamber to which the other end of the pressurizing pipe is connected by a slidable and brakeable sluice valve, and the outside air opened to the outside air. It is composed of an air cylinder divided into chambers and a suspending device provided in a hanging manner in a direction that pressurizes the pressurizing chamber in conjunction with a sluice valve installed in the air cylinder firmly installed. The present invention relates to a weight adjusting device for medical treatment, characterized in that the output signals of various sensors such as an electronic scale for detecting the amount of movement of an electronic scale and an electronic scale for detecting the weight applied to a hanging device are processed by a computer. That.

[0010]

Operation The operation method and operation of the medical weight adjusting device constructed as described above are as follows.

First, a desired portion of the body is attached to the hanging tool 9 by a method according to the purpose of use of the weight adjusting device. The figure shows the waist, but this is only an example.If the purpose of limb movement is to lift the hands and feet, if the purpose of getting up is to lift the upper body, and if the purpose of movement or walking is to lift the waist or upper body. Attach to 9.

When the air compressor 1 is started and air is supplied to the pressurizing pipe 2, the internal pressures of the pressurizing pipe 2 and the pressurizing chamber 6 rise,
A force acts to slide the sluice valve 5 provided in the air cylinder 8 toward the outside air chamber 7 and pull up the suspending tool 9.
The force applied to the gate valve 5 is the area of the gate valve 5 on the pressurizing chamber 6 side (the inner diameter area of the air cylinder 8) × atmospheric pressure. The type of the air cylinder 8 and the presence / absence of the rod 10 are not particularly limited, but it is assumed that the combination of the air compressor 1 and the air cylinder 8 can generate a force equal to or more than the total weight.

The low-pressure air regulator 3 for setting the body weight level and the low-pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure, which are arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe 2, keep the internal pressures of the pressurizing pipe 2 and the pressurizing chamber 6 constant at a set level to supply air. By releasing it, it works to release the pressure applied more than that. The level of the set level of internal pressure can be adjusted up and down with the knob. When one or more required low-pressure air regulators 3 for setting body weight level and one low-pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting internal pressure are arranged in the pressurizing pipe 2, it is preferential to set the lowest level among the low-pressure air regulators. The internal pressure and the force applied to the sluice valve 5 are kept constant and stabilized.

Low pressure air regulator 3 for setting body weight level
The setting level of is adjusted to a level at which the weight (entire weight or a part) placed on the suspension 9 is balanced with the force of the sluice valve 5 or a level slightly lower than that and fixed. The low-pressure air regulator 3 for setting the body weight level acts as a kind of safety valve, and the low-pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure adjusts the internal pressure up and down. In this way, as shown in FIG. 4, even if the air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure is mistakenly operated to a high pressure level, the low-pressure air regulator 3 for setting the weight level releases the pressure, so that the internal pressure is Can only reach a level that balances with. Since the internal pressure does not become higher than the body weight setting level, there is no danger of the body being lifted and suspended in the air. This weight setting is adjusted and set according to the purpose of use, such as hands, feet, upper body, and whole body. still,
Due to the relationship between the air supply capacity of the air compressor 1, the set level of the internal pressure, and the maximum air release capacity of the low-pressure air regulator 3 for setting the weight level, one low-pressure air regulator 3 for setting the weight level cannot release the pressure to the weight setting level. In this case, a required number of low-pressure air regulators 3 for setting the body weight level are arranged in the pressurizing pipe 2 to maintain the internal pressure at the set level.

As a concrete example, when the low pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure is adjusted to be lower than the body weight, as shown in FIG. 1, air is discharged from the low pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure in order to release excess pressure. It If the weight of this person is 50 kg, the low-pressure air regulator 3 for setting the weight level is set to 50 kg, and the low-pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure is used to adjust the body weight to 0-50 kg.
Adjust how much kg is to be applied to the sluice valve 5 within the range.
In the case of this person, if the weight that can be relatively easily supported by himself is 20 kg, the gate valve 5 is made to bear the weight of 30 kg by adjusting the internal pressure adjusting low-pressure air regulator 4 to the equivalent of 30 kg. The weight that the person must support can be reduced to 20 kg. This makes it possible for a person, no matter how weak he / she is, to keep his / her limbs raised, sitting with his / her upper body upright, or standing on his / her own body within his or her own range. .

From the above-mentioned state, when the limbs are lowered, the upper half of the body is laid down, or the waist is squashed and the patient is squashed, FIG.
As shown in, the sluice valve 5 moves to the pressurizing chamber 6 side in conjunction with the suspending tool 9, and the extra pressure generated therewith is released from the internal pressure setting low-pressure air regulator 4 to release the internal pressure. Is kept constant. In the previous example in which the low pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure is adjusted to 30 kg, the sluice valve 5 bears the weight of 30 kg, and the weight of 50 k
With his weight reduced to 20 kg, which he must support, he can bend down and crouch comfortably. Due to this action, no matter how weak the person is, he or she can lower the raised limbs, lie the upper body on the bed, and lower the body while supporting the body.

When the limbs are raised or the upper half of the body is raised or stood up from the above-mentioned state, the sluice valve 5 moves to the outside air chamber 7 side in conjunction with the suspension 9, as shown in FIG. The low pressure air regulator 4 for setting the internal pressure compensates the reduced pressure resulting from the above by squeezing or stopping the released air, and the internal pressure is maintained in a constant state. In the previous example in which the low pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure is adjusted to 30 kg, the sluice valve 5 bears the weight of 30 kg, and the weight of the person who weighs 50 kg must be reduced to 20 kg. You can stretch your body and stand up easily. By this action, no matter how weak the person may be, he / she can raise his / her limbs, raise the upper body, and / or raise his / her body by himself.

Since jumps and squats (flexion / extension movements) are a combination of the above-mentioned movements, the low-pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure is appropriately adjusted so that the sluice valve 5 bears most of the weight, and the person must support the weight. By greatly reducing, it becomes possible to control the range of one's own power, no matter how weak the person is.

Since walking movements, movements, daily activities such as bathing and toilets and rehabilitation are lateral movements in addition to the combination of the above-mentioned movements, the air cylinder 8 etc. should be firmly attached to a table with cars, rails or a flexible arm. If it is installed and moved, no matter how weak the person is, he or she can do it within his or her own range, and the mental burden on the nurse is lightened.

In the bedridden state, when the physical strength is so low that it cannot operate even if the weight is reduced, the low pressure air regulator 4 for adjusting the internal pressure is adjusted so that the sluice valve 5 bears all or most of the weight. As a result, the nurse can move the body easily with a small force. You can easily lift the body as well as lift it. When the nurse moves the body and gives stimulation, the muscle strength, nerves,
It becomes easy for functions such as internal organs to recover. Nurses are freed from a great physical burden.

Since the weight can be adjusted according to the physical strength of the person by the above-mentioned action, the recovery of the physical strength is accelerated by the load suitable for the recovery, the exercise can be performed only by the force necessary for the movement, and the body is moved. By doing so, it becomes possible to activate the visceral function.

When it has a function of braking the sluice valve 5 and opening / closing the pressurizing pipe 2, this is appropriately used. It is safer to stop the sluice valve 5 while taking a bath or toilet. In the drawing, the solenoid valve 13 is closed and the braking brake 15 is locked.

Electronic scale 10 for detecting the amount of movement of the hanger
By processing the output signals of various sensors such as the electronic scale 11 for detecting the weight applied to the hanger and the computer 12, various controls and data management can be performed by the program. It is possible to store the weight of the person and the data so far in the computer 12 and process the output signals of the electronic scale 10, the electronic scale 11 and the like to evaluate the recovery effect of rehabilitation and achievement results. With this objective data, rehabilitation can be promoted reasonably, and self-evaluation and self-management can provide mental independence. Further, the computer 12 can automatically present the rehabilitation menu and the effort goal. When an abnormal movement or danger is detected from the output signals of various sensors such as the electronic scale 10 and the electronic scale 11, the computer 12 automatically outputs a signal for closing the pressurizing pipe 2 and braking the sluice valve 5, You can prevent accidents before they happen. The solenoid valve 1 will be described with reference to the drawings.
3 is closed and the braking brake 15 is locked. Since the sluice valve 5 can be braked and the pressurizing pipe 2 can be opened and closed, the sluice valve 5 is appropriately controlled, and for safety, the sluice valve 5 is stopped during a bath or a toilet.

[0024]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, but it goes without saying that it should not be limited to this.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 is an air compressor. Reference numeral 2 in the drawing denotes a pressurizing pipe, one of which is connected to the air compressor 1 and the other of which is connected to the pressurizing chamber 6 of the air cylinder 8. Reference numeral 3 in the figure is one low-pressure air regulator for setting the body weight level, which is arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe 2, and the internal structure thereof is publicly known, so that it is simplified. Reference numeral 4 in the drawing denotes one low pressure air regulator for adjusting the internal pressure, which is arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe 2, and has the same structure as the weight level setting air regulator 3. Reference numeral 8 in the drawing is an air cylinder that is firmly installed on the ceiling or the like, which is divided into a pressurizing chamber 6 connected to the pressurizing pipe 2 by a slidable sluice valve 5 and an external air chamber 7 open to the outside air. Reference numeral 14 in the figure denotes a rod which is integrally formed with the sluice valve 5 on the side of the pressurizing chamber 6 in the direction of pressurizing the pressurizing chamber 6 and which hermetically penetrates the air cylinder 8. Reference numeral 9 in the figure denotes a suspending tool provided by being suspended by a string 16 connected to the tip of the rod 14. The suspending tool 9 of the present embodiment has a structure that can be worn by holding hands, legs, head, upper body and waist.

Reference numeral 10 in the drawings other than FIG. 6 is a slide type electronic scale whose tip is integrally formed with the rod 14 in order to detect the amount of movement of the suspending tool 9 in conjunction with the sluice valve 5.
Reference numeral 11 in the figure is an electronic scale for detecting the weight of the hanging tool 9. Reference numeral 13 in the figure denotes an electromagnetic valve which is arranged in the pressurizing pipe 2 for opening and closing. In the figure, reference numeral 15 is a braking brake that uses the air pressure of the air compressor 1 to brake the sluice valve 5. As shown in FIG. 5, reference numeral 12 in the figure indicates the closing of the solenoid valve 13 and the braking brake 15 when a dangerous numerical value is detected by processing output signals and other data from various sensors such as the electronic scale 10 and the electronic scale 11. It is a computer that controls to apply. The computer 12 processes the weight of the person, the electronic scale 11, the electronic scale 10, and other data and signals, and can display the recovery effect of rehabilitation, achievement results, etc. on a screen or voice. Numbers, graphs,
If displayed in a table, etc., functional recovery such as physical fitness is obvious. The computer 12 can automatically present a rehabilitation menu and an effort goal. Depending on the degree of achievement of the goal, it is also possible to display voices such as "Yoku, Dekimashita." And "Mouskosides.

In FIG. 6, a slide movable part 17 is provided at the tip of the rod 14, and two fixed pulleys 18 and a movable part 17 are provided.
It is a stroke-saving device in which the ends are fixed by hanging a string 16 provided by hanging the suspending tool 9 on the two pulleys 18 attached to the.
When installing the weight adjustment device for medical treatment in a general small room,
The length of the air cylinder 8 and the rod 14 and the like becomes an obstacle. If a stroke-saving device is used, this problem can be solved by doubling the movement amount of the string 16 even if the rod 14 has a short stroke. If there are four pulleys 18, the number will be four times. Reference numeral 10 in FIG. 6 is a rotary electronic scale for detecting the amount of movement of the hanging tool 9.

FIG. 7 shows a simplest embodiment of a weight adjusting device for medical treatment. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is an air compressor, and reference numeral 2 is one of which is connected to the air compressor 1 and the other is connected to a pressurizing chamber of an air cylinder 8. Pressurizing pipe connected to 6, 3 in the figure is one low-pressure air regulator for setting the body weight in the middle of the pressurizing pipe 2, 4 in the figure is for adjusting one internal pressure in the middle of the pressurizing pipe 2 Low-pressure air regulator, 8 in the figure is a pressurizing chamber 6 connected to the pressurizing pipe 2 by means of a freely movable sluice valve 5.
And an air cylinder firmly installed on the ceiling or the like, which is divided into an open air chamber 7 that is open to the open air, and 14 in the figure is an integral part of the sluice valve 5 on the pressurizing chamber 6 side, which is the direction of pressurizing the pressurizing chamber 6. A rod formed airtightly through the air cylinder 8 and a suspending member 9 hung in the drawing by a string 16 connected to the tip of the rod 14. The suspending tool 9 of the present embodiment has a structure that can be worn by holding hands, legs, head, upper body and waist.

[0029]

As described above, the medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention adjusts the body weight to reduce the physical load of the person, and thus, the living activity (moving to the wheelchair,
To enable bathing, toilets, etc.) and rehabilitation (function recovery training), to lighten the burden on the nurse, and to efficiently and reasonably restore diminished muscle strength, exercise capacity, and visceral function. You can

Further, according to the weight adjusting device for medical treatment according to the present invention, which has a pressurizing pipe which can be opened and closed and a sluice valve which can be braked, and which processes the output signals of various sensors such as an electronic scale and an electronic scale by computer, rehabilitation is possible. It is also possible to objectively evaluate the recovery effect and achievement results of the, and detect abnormalities and dangers to automatically close the pressurizing pipe and brake the sluice valve to prevent an accident.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of a medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a stroke-saving device.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view of a medical weight adjusting device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Air Compressor 2 Pressurizing Pipe 3 Low Pressure Air Regulator for Weight Level Setting 4 Low Pressure Air Regulator for Inner Pressure Adjustment 5 Gate Valve 6 Pressurizing Chamber 7 Outside Air Chamber 8 Air Cylinder 9 Lifting Tool 10 Electronic Scale 11 Electronic Scale 12 Computer

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An air compressor (1) and a pressurizing pipe (2), one of which is connected to the air compressor (1),
One or more required low-pressure air regulators (3) for adjusting the weight level, which are arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe (2),
A pressurizing chamber in which an adjustable low-pressure air regulator (4) for adjusting internal pressure is provided in the middle of the pressurizing pipe (2) and the other end of the pressurizing pipe (2) is connected by a slidable sluice valve (5). (6) and an air cylinder (8), which is divided into an outside air chamber (7) opened to the outside, and a sluice valve (5) installed inside the air cylinder (8) that is firmly installed in conjunction with each other. A weight adjusting device for medical treatment, comprising a suspending tool (9) provided so as to hang down in a direction of pressurizing the pressure chamber (6). 2. An air compressor (1), an openable and closable pressurizing pipe (2) having one side connected to the air compressor (1), and one or more required number of the pressurizing pipes (2) arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe (2). Adjustable low-pressure air regulator (3) for setting body weight level, adjustable low-pressure air regulator (4) for adjusting internal pressure arranged in the middle of the pressurizing pipe (2), and slidable and brakeable sluice valve (5) ), An air cylinder (8) separated into a pressurizing chamber (6) to which the other end of the pressurizing pipe (2) is connected and an external air chamber (7) opened to the external air, and an air cylinder firmly installed. The suspension valve (5) provided inside (8) is interlocked with the sluice valve (5) to suspend the pressurizing chamber (6) in the direction of pressurizing the pressurizing chamber (6). Detects the amount of movement applied to the electronic scale (10) and lifting equipment (9) A weight adjusting device for medical treatment, characterized in that output signals of various sensors such as an electronic scale (11) are processed by a computer (12).