INFANT SIMULATOR

• US 20130224711A1
• Filed: 03/06/2013
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Realityworks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Realityworks, Inc.
• Inventors: Jurmain, Richard N., Jurmain, Mary M., Johnson, Charles F., Pelkus, Adrian
• Application Number:
  US13/786,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20130224711A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/267
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2200/00 Computerized interactive toys, e.g. dolls
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/001 simulating physiological processes, e.g. heartbeat, breathing or fever with fluid ingestion or emission A63H3/24
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/24 Drinking dolls; Dolls producing tears; Wetting dolls
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/28 Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/281 for pregnancy, birth or obstetrics G09B23/286 takes precedence

Abstract

An infant simulator comprising a mannequin having a temperature sensor effective for sensing the environmental temperatures to which the mannequin is exposed, and a means effective for recording the sensed temperature.

Claims

1. An infant simulator, comprising:

(a) a mannequin having a temperature sensor effective for sensing the environmental temperatures to which the mannequin is exposed; and

(b) a means effective for recording the sensed temperature.

2. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the infant simulator has an approximate shape and weight of an infant.

3. The infant simulator of claim 1 further comprising an energy source retained within the mannequin for supplying the energy requirements of the infant simulator, and a means for indicating that the energy source has been accessed.

4. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the temperature sensor is a thermister.

5. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the temperature sensor is retained within the mannequin and access to the temperature sensor is restricted.

6. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the temperature recording means is effective for recording at least the first instance in which the sensed temperature falls outside a defined acceptable temperature range.

7. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the temperature recording means is effective for recording the value of the highest and lowest temperatures sensed during an assignment period.

8. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the temperature recording means is effective for recording the value of at least the outermost temperature sensed during each instance in which the sensed temperature falls outside a defined acceptable temperature range.

9. The infant simulator of claim 8 wherein the acceptable temperature range has a minimum temperature of between about 10 to 15°

C. and a maximum temperature of between about 35 to 40°

C.

10. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the recording means is effective for continuously recording the value of the sensed temperature throughout a thermal exposure period.

11. The infant simulator of claim 1 wherein the temperature recording means is effective for continually recording the environmental temperature to which the mannequin is exposed for the duration of an assignment period.

12. The infant simulator of claim 1 further comprising a means for generating a perceptible thermal exposure signal when the sensed temperature falls above or below a defined acceptable temperature range, wherein the acceptable temperature range has a minimum temperature of between about 10 to 15°

C. and a maximum temperature of between about 35 to 40°

C.