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http://dx.doi.org/10.21288/resko.2017.11.1.29

Design and Evaluation of a Low-floor Care-bed for Elderly People  

Bae, Ju-Hwan (근로복지공단 재활공학연구소)
Moon, Inhyuk (동의대학교로봇자동화전공)
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Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology / v.11, no.1, 2017 , pp. 29-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
It was hard for a conventional care-bed to be realized to a low-floor position due to a complex actuation mechanism installed under the mattress support platform. In this paper a mechanism design to set a low-floor position as well as to adjust back- and leg-rest angles was proposed. A dual motor was applied to the back- and leg-rest mechanism of which design parameters were determined by an optimal method. An elevation mechanism was also designed to enlarge a limited stroke range up to two times of its original stroke using a pulley mechanism. An evaluation test was performed by five healthy subjects ($24.4{\pm}0.5yrs.$) when going up from a floor position to a preset best position which was set to the 240mm height for a prototype low-floor bed and to the 600mm height for a conventional bed. As a result, the moving distance was 38% lower than the conventional bed when the subject used the low-floor bed. It showed that the low-floor care-bed reduced physical burdens and was effective to assist activities of daily living of the elderly people.
Keywords
Low-floor; care-bed; mechanism design; assist; elderly people;
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