Infant's chamber pot having health checking function

• US 6,684,418 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2002
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Keun Seob Choi
• Original Assignee: Keun Seob Choi
• Inventors: Choi, Keun Seob
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US10/296,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20030131408A1
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 431/4, 466/1, 490/2, 448/3, 600/300
• US Class Current: 4/483
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 11/06 Chamber-pots bed pans or other sanitary devices for bed-ridden persons A61G9/00; Throw-away urinals for non-bedridden persons; Chamber-pots for children, also with signalling means, e.g. with a music box, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0038 Devices for taking faeces samples; Faecal examination devices anal receptacles A61F5/451
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 4/902 Toilet training

Abstract

Disclosed are an infant'"'"'s chamber pot having a health checking function and an operating method thereof. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot comprises a power source section; a temperature sensor installed on a bottom surface inside the chamber pot to measure a temperature of stool; a controller electrically connected to the temperature sensor, operated by a voltage supplied from the power source section and having a memory part in which melody signal data and warning signal data are stored, the controller selectively outputting the melody signal data or the warning signal data depending upon the stool temperature sensed by the temperature sensor, by comparing the stool temperature with a normal threshold temperature; and a speaker electrically connected to an output terminal of the controller, the speaker converting the signal data outputted from the controller into an audible signal and then, outputting the audible signal.

Claims

1. An infant'"'"'s chamber pot comprising:

a power source section;

a temperature sensor installed on a bottom surface inside the chamber pot to measure a temperature of stool;

a controller electrically connected to the temperature sensor, operated by a voltage supplied from the power source section and having a memory part in which melody signal data and warning signal data are stored, the controller selectively outputting the melody signal data or the warning signal data depending upon the stool temperature sensed by the temperature sensor, by comparing the stool temperature with a normal threshold temperature; and

a speaker electrically connected to an output terminal of the controller, the speaker converting the signal data outputted from the controller into an audible signal and then, outputting the audible signal.

2. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured in a manner such that the controller stores an ambient temperature sensed by the temperature sensor inside the chamber pot, and, when the stool temperature is sensed by the temperature sensor, the controller corrects the stool temperature in response to a most recently stored ambient temperature.

3. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot as claimed in claim 2, wherein a display section for displaying a temperature which is obtained by correcting the stool temperature by virtue of the controller, is installed on an outer surface of the chamber pot and electrically connected to the controller.

4. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot as claimed in claim 2, wherein the warning signal data which are stored in the memory part of the controller, are divided into first warning signal data and second warning signal data, and wherein the controller is configured in a manner such that the controller selectively outputs the melody signal data, the first warning signal data or the second warning signal data depending upon the stool temperature sensed by the temperature sensor, by comparing the stool temperature with the normal threshold temperature and a critical threshold temperature.

5. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot as claimed in claim 1, wherein an operating switch is electrically connected between and to the controller and the power source section.

6. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot as claimed in claim 5, wherein the operating switch comprises a contact sensor which is installed on an upper surface of the chamber pot so that the contact sensor is turned on when the infant sits on the chamber pot.

7. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot as claimed in claim 1, wherein a display section for displaying a temperature which is obtained by correcting the stool temperature by virtue of the controller, is installed on an outer surface of the chamber pot and electrically connected to the controller.

8. The infant'"'"'s chamber pot as claimed in claim 1, wherein the warning signal data which are stored in the memory part of the controller, are divided into first warning signal data and second warning signal data, and wherein the controller is configured in a manner such that the controller selectively outputs the melody signal data, the first warning signal data or the second warning signal data depending upon the stool temperature sensed by the temperature sensor, by comparing the stool temperature with the normal threshold temperature and a critical threshold temperature.

9. A method for operating an infant'"'"'s chamber pot having a health checking function, comprising:

an ambient temperature storing step of storing an ambient temperature sensed by a temperature sensor;

a stool temperature receiving step of receiving a stool temperature sensed by the temperature sensor;

a stool temperature correcting step of correcting the stool temperature received in the stool temperature receiving step, depending upon a most recently stored ambient temperature stored in the ambient temperature storing step;

a stool temperature comparing step of comparing the stool temperature corrected in the stool temperature correcting step, with a normal threshold temperature;

a normal signal outputting step of judging the corrected stool temperature to be normal when it is determined in the stool temperature comparing step that the corrected stool temperature is no greater than the normal threshold temperature, and then outputting a normal signal which indicates a normal health condition; and

a warning signal outputting step of judging the corrected stool temperature to be abnormal when it is determined in the stool temperature comparing step that the corrected stool temperature is greater than the normal threshold temperature, and then outputting a warning signal which indicates an abnormal health condition.