Patent Application
20050246835
The present invention relates to a crib including a tilting device and a rotating device for respectively tilting and rotating the bed frame such that the baby can be arranged in a specific pose for avoiding from throwing up.
A conventional baby bed simply includes a headboard, a footboard, two rails and a bed frame which connected between the headboard and the footboard. The two rails prevent the baby from dropping from the crib. A pad or a mattress is put on the bed frame which is arranged horizontally and the baby lies on the pad with a pillow for supporting the baby's head. Applicant's former invention for supporting baby's head is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,263,526 which discloses a head forming cot. However, the former invention only provide an ideal support to the head, after the baby had milk, the parents usually pet the back of the baby and try to release the air in the stomach. The purpose of petting is to reduce the possibility of throwing up of the milk. Nevertheless, because the milk is liquid and the baby cannot sit or stand so that the liquid food tends to flow back through the esophagus and this sometimes is dangerous for the baby. A lot of air enters the stomach during having milk so that the pressure in the stomach is increased and the baby's cardiac sphincter is not strong enough to prevent the flowing of the milk from the stomach. Therefore, the baby is suffered by the throwing of milk when the baby lies horizontally in the crib. Ideally, if the head of the baby is arranged to be slightly higher than the stomach, and because the stomach is located at the left side of the baby's body, so that if the left side of the baby lies slightly higher than the right side of the baby, the food in the stomach easily enters the duodenum which is located at the right side of the baby.
The present invention intends to provide an adjustable crib which includes a tilting device for raising the head end of the bed frame and a rotating device which rotates the left side of bed frame to be higher than the right side.
The present invention relates to an adjustable crib that comprises a base and a bed frame connected to the base. A tilting device is connected to the base so as to raise an end of the bed frame. A rotating device is connected to the base and rotates the bed frame. So as to prevents the baby from throwing up after having milk.
The present invention will become more obvious from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings which show, for purposes of illustration only, a preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention.
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A tilting device 30 includes a titling mechanism 31 and is connected to an end of the base 10 and able to pitch the bed frame 20, i.e. able to raise the front end of the bed frame 20. The tilting device 30 maybe has many embodiments for raising the bed frame 20, and may be manual or automatic. In an embodiment of the present invention for an automatic way, the tilting mechanism 31 includes an electric motor 32 which is fixed to the base 10 and drives first and second pushing rods 33, 330 to extend relative to the base 10 so as to raise an end of the bed frame 20. The first and second pushing rods 33, 330 are located at two sides of the end of the bed frame 20 and are respectively and movably guided by first and second rails 35, 350 which ensure the first and second pushing rods 33, 330 to extend smoothly. The first and second pushing rods 35, 350 have first and second racks 36, 360 respectively connected thereto. A first passive gear 37 and a second passive gear 370 are respectively connected to the base 10 and engaged with the first and second racks 36, 360. A shaft 38 is connected between the first and second passive gears 37, 370. The electric motor 32 has an output shaft 320 and an active gear 34 is connected to the output shaft 320. The active gear 34 is engaged with the first passive gear 37 so that the electric motor 32 drives first passive gear 37 directly and the second passive gear 370 indirectly via the shaft 38. The first and second passive gears 37, 370 are rotated so as to move the first and second racks 36, 360 which extend the first and second pushing rods 33330 so that an end of the bed frame 20 can be raised as shown in
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The electric motor 42 is connected to a control device 60 which includes a motor driving control unit 61, a signal input device 63 having a signal input unit 62, and a signal processing unit 64. A further embodiment of the present invention for a remote controlling way, the signal input device 63 includes a signal emitting device 66 such as a remote controller and a signal receiving device 65 which receives signals sent from the signal emitting device 66 and passes the signals to the signal input unit 62 of the signal input device 63.
While we have shown and described the embodiment in accordance with the present invention, it should be clear to those skilled in the art that further embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
