Bottom for bed apparatus

• US 9,635,949 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2014
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paramount Bed Company Limited (Paramount Bed Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Paramount Bed Company Limited (Paramount Bed Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Nomura, Katsuyoshi, Shimada, Tatsuya, Hirai, Eita, Kageyama, Dan, Kubota, Shinnosuke, Nakano, Yuji, Yanagihara, Takeshi, Matsumoto, Takaki
• Primary Examiner(s): CONLEY, FREDRICK C
• Application Number:
  US14/782,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20160029807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• Field of Search: 5613-618, 5188, 5191
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/025 Direct mattress support frames, Cross-bars
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/04 Extensible bedsteads, e.g. with adjustment of length, width, height for children's beds A47D7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/04 with adjustable inclination A47C20/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/015 divided into different adjustable sections, e.g. for Gatch position

Abstract

To provide a bottom for a bed apparatus that can make the user feel comfortable when lying on the bed apparatus. The bottom for a bed apparatus, which is height adjustable and is mounted on the top of a bed apparatus, comprising a plurality of parts each formed of a resin plate having a thickness, including a back bottom, a hip bottom, a knee bottom and a foot bottom. Of the parts, essential parts are joined by connecting parts, and the connecting parts are formed of the same material with, to be thinner than, and integrally with, the essential parts, and, depressed portions are formed on the top surface of the bottom around the center in the width direction of the bottom, and a plurality of passage holes are perforated in the depressed portions from the top surface to the undersurface of the bottom.

Claims

1. A bottom for a bed apparatus, which is height adjustable and is mounted on the top of a bed apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of parts each formed of a resin plate having a thickness, including a back bottom, a hip bottom, a knee bottom and a foot bottom, wherein

at least two parts among the plurality of parts are joined by connecting parts, and the connecting parts are formed of the same material with, to be thinner than, and integrally with, the resin plates forming the at least two parts, and,

depressed portions are formed on the top surface of the bottom, the depressed portions are formed in the central part of the bottom with respect to the width direction, and a plurality of passage holes are formed from the top surface to the undersurface of the bottom in the depressed portions, and wherein

a flexing part is extended from the hip bottom, overlapping the back bottom, and flexibly joined to the back bottom so as to slide along the back bottom when a back-raising operation is carried out.

2. The bottom for a bed apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the depressed portions are formed in dimensions corresponding to the width of the user body, leaving surrounding areas in the head side, the foot side, and both sides in the width direction, of the entire bottom.

3. The bottom for a bed apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the depressed portions of the bottom are formed so that the depressed portion of the hip bottom is the deepest, and the depressed portion of the knee bottom is the second deepest.

4. A bottom for a bed apparatus, which is height adjustable and is mounted on the top of a bed apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of parts each formed of a resin plate having a thickness, including a back bottom and a hip bottom,

wherein

a flexing part is extended from the hip bottom, overlapping the back bottom, and flexibly joined to the back bottom so as to slide along the back bottom when a back-raising operation is carried out.

5. The bottom for a bed apparatus according to claim 4, wherein depressed portions are formed on the top surface of the bottom,

the depressed portions are formed in the central part of the bottom with respect to the width direction, and

a plurality of passage holes are formed from the top surface to the undersurface of the bottom in the depressed portions.

6. The bottom for a bed apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the depressed portions are formed in dimensions corresponding to the width of the user body, leaving surrounding areas in the head side, the foot side, and both sides in the width direction, of the entire bottom.

7. The bottom for a bed apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the depressed portions of the bottom are formed so that the depressed portion of the hip bottom is deeper than the depressed portion of the knee bottom.