Bed warmer with a body temperature sensor for stopping a higher preset temperature

• US 4,656,334 A
• Filed: 05/29/1985
• Issued: 04/07/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Endo, Shinichi, Kimata, Kunio, Ogita, Kunio, Shinoda, Hideho
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/738,970
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• Field of Search: 219/212, 219/505, 219/494, 219/497, 219/501, 219/504, 219/217
• US Class Current: 219/212
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 21/048 for heating
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/014 Heaters using resistive wires or cables not provided for in H05B3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/037 Heaters with zones of different power density
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/34 flexible, e.g. heating nets or webs

Abstract

In a bed warmer such as an electric blanket initially subject to a preparatory high temperature set value, the supply of power to a heater is controlled such that a warmer temperature is automatically recovered to a preset temperature value provided by a temperature setter from the preparatory high temperature set value when a bodily temperature detector detects that the user has goes to bed.

Claims

1. A bed warmer comprising:

a warmer body;

heater means provided on said warmer body;

first detector means for detecting a temperature of said warmer body;

setting means for setting a temperature value of said warmer body;

control means for controlling the supply of power to said heater means so that the temperature of said warmer body detected by said first detector means becomes the temperature value set by said setting means; and

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second detector means for detecting a temperature of a human body to indicate the presence of a human body in proximity to said second detector;

said control means including a high temperature holding means for setting said heater means to provide an initial high temperature when power is first supplied to the bed warmer, and release means for releasing the high temperature of said heater means set by said high temperature holding means when said second detector means detects the presence of a human body.

2. A bed warmer according to claim 1 wherein said control means comprises circuit means responsive to a turn-on of said control means to provide a preparatory high temperature setting.

3. A bed warmer according to claim 1 wherein said body temperature detector is mounted in a shoulder portion of said warmer body.

4. A bed warmer according to claim 2 wherein said body temperature detector is mounted in a shoulder portion of said warmer body.

6. A bed warmer according to claim 1 wherein said second detector means is provided on a shoulder portion of said warmer body.

7. A bed warmer according to claim 1 wherein said control means sets said heater means to provide a temperature for said bed warmer which corresponds to said temperature value set by said setting means, when said high temperature is released.

5. A bed warmer comprising:

a warmer body;

a heater means provided on said warmer body;

temperature preset means for providing a preset temperature value of said warmer body;

a body temperature detector for detecting a human body temperature and producing an output signal;

control means for controlling supply of power of said heater means such that a temperature of said warmer body equals the preset temperature value provided by said temperature preset means;

said control means being responsive to the body temperature detector output signal to control the supply of power to said heater means such that the temperature of said warmer body is automatically reduced from a preparatory high temperature set value to the preset temperature value, said control means comprising a variable resistor interlocked with said temperature preset means, a transistor operative to short-circuit said variable resistor, and a voltage comparator responsive to the body temperature detector output to on-off control said transistor.