Newborn infant therapy apparatus

• US 5,006,105 A
• Filed: 08/17/1990
• Issued: 04/09/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Timothy L. Sherard
• Original Assignee: Timothy L. Sherard
• Inventors: Sherard, Timothy L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Howell, Kyle L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NASSER, ROBERT L
• Application Number:
  US07/568,906
• Time in Patent Office: 235 Days
• Field of Search: 600/21, 600/22, 128/205.26, 128/202.12, 128/877, 128/362, 128/371, 128/373, 128/374, 128/375, 128/395, 128/396
• US Class Current: 600/22
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 11/00 Baby-incubators; Couveuses

Abstract

An apparatus setting forth a therapy apparatus for newborn infants, including a cabinet member mounting life monitoring equipment and storage compartments therewithin, including a planar top surface mounting a chamber, with the chamber including transparent side panels and an extensible and contractable cover housing to permit ease of access to the infant, with the housing including slot members hingedly mounted together and securable within opposed lateral tracks, with the tracks further including photo-therapy illumination members extending longitudinally of the slats, and further including a support cushion positionable upon a floor of the cavity.

Claims

1. A newborn infant therapy apparatus comprising,

a support cabinet housing, including a front vertical wall, the front vertical wall including a cardio-respirator monitor device, and a pulse-oximeter mounted through the front wall, and a first and second shelf mounted within the housing, and an oxygen tank mounted the front wall adjacent the pulse oximeter, and a plurality of aligned supply draws mounted to the front wall, and the housing including a planar left support shelf, the planar left support shelf including an intravenous support post and hook fixedly and orthogonally mounted to the left support shelf, and a right support shelf coplanar with the left support shelf extending longitudinally of and beyond the housing and fixed thereto, and a support chamber floor mounted between the left and right support shelves coplanar therewith, including a chamber housing overlying the chamber floor, wherein the chamber housing includes a left and right support arch fixedly mounted orthogonally overlying the support chamber floor, with the left and right support arch arranged parallel relative to one another, and each arch including a support track coextensive with the arch and formed to a bottom surface thereof, and an aligned parallel series of elongate therapy bulb members, each bulb member longitudinally aligned relative to the chamber housing and each bulb including a bulb socket mounted at each end of each respective bulb to define a bulb socket pair, each bulb socket pair rotatably mounting a support wheel, with each support wheel rotatably mounted within a respective track of each respective left and right support arch.

2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1 including a transparent extensible and contractable flexible cover overlying the bulbs.

3. An apparatus as set forth in claim 2 with each respective left and right support arch including a transparent end wall.

4. An apparatus as set forth in claim 3 including a thermal massage support cushion, the thermal massage support cushion positioned within the chamber housing, and the thermal side support cushion including a surrounding cushion perimeter overlying a central planar cushion support.

5. An apparatus as set forth in claim 4 wherein the support cushion further includes a polymeric cover layer overlying the cushion perimeter and the cushion support.

6. An apparatus as set forth in claim 5 wherein the central cushion support includes a bottom cavity, and a thermal massage unit defined by an external configuration complementary to that of the bottom cavity.

7. An apparatus as set forth in claim 6 including control means to effect heat and massage control of the massage unit.