Mobile hospital system

• US 6,179,358 B1
• Filed: 11/02/1998
• Issued: 01/30/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hirayama Setsubi Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Hirayama Setsubi Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Hirota, Nobuhiko, Hirayama, Kensuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Pape, Joseph D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATEL, KIRAN B
• Application Number:
  US09/184,048
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• Field of Search: 296/24.1, 52/361
• US Class Current: 296/24.38
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/001 Vehicles provided with medical equipment to perform operations or examinations
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/14 the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work lifting devices for movable platforms or cabins for workmen B66F11/04
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/08 Hospitals, infirmaries, or the like; Schools; Prisons

Abstract

A mobile hospital system can be moved by tractors, helicopters, railway locomotives and/or sea vessels and provide comprehensive diagnoses and medical treatments to casualties and patients. A plurality of container wagons functionally operate as part of a hospital and are moved appropriately to set up a comprehensive hospital system by connecting the plurality of container wagons on site, some of the container wagons being supplied with water, power and fuel oil from a water supply wagon, a power generation wagon and an oil supply wagon, respectively. With such an arrangement, a comprehensive hospital system can be set up by connecting the plurality of container wagons on site in a region hit by a natural disaster or a harsh military dispute so that it can provide relevant medical services to a large number of patients including causalities.

Claims

1. A mobile hospital system comprising a plurality of container wagons adapted to functionally operate as part of hospital and be moved appropriately by transportation means so as to be able to set up a comprehensive hospital by connecting said plurality of container wagons on site,

some of said container wagons being provided with a water supply means for supplying water from a water supply wagon, a power generation means for supplying fuel oils to said power generation means and a wagon mounted incinerator for burning the wastes produced from said container wagons.

2. A mobile hospital system according to claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of container wagons has a connecting opening at least on one of its four lateral sides so that any adjacently located two of said container wagons may be held in communication with each other by way of their respective connecting openings.

3. A mobile hospital system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of container wagons include at least a consulting room for treatments by a doctor, a surgical operation room for surgical operations and a medical instrument room equipped with various medical instruments.

4. A mobile hospital system according to claim 3, wherein said surgical operation room is provided with an air cleaning apparatus for keeping said surgical operation room as clean room.

5. A mobile hospital system according to claim 4, wherein said surgical operation room has an air duct arranged above the ceiling of the room and the ceiling has a plurality of air blow-in holes held in communication with said air duct, said air cleaning apparatus being adapted to draw air from a lower portion of the surgerical operation room and blow in clean air to said air duct.

6. A mobile hospital system according to claim 3, wherein said plurality of container wagons further include a ward, a canteen, a staff room and staff bed room.

7. A mobile hospital system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said container wagons is airtightly sealed and isolated from ambient air.

8. A mobile hospital system according to claim 1, further comprising a water purifying apparatus for purifying natural water into a quality level of suitable for drinking water.

9. A mobile hospital system according to claim 1, wherein the transportation means comprises rails aid sequentially in an intended area of operation for railroads and said container wagons are moved to the set up said hospital system.

10. A mobile hospital system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of container wagons is provided with drive means.