PURPOSE: To enable the control of incidental facilities of a bed and various electrical appliances inside a room to be carried out while lying on the bed by interlocking a headboard equipped with a power ON/OFF device for the electrical appliances such as lighting equipment on the underside of the bed and various control devices with the elevating motion of the bed.
CONSTITUTION: When one is going to bed, if a bed 1 is lowered, the slide part 13 at the end of the bed 1 engages with the lever part 12 of a headboard controller 10, and if the bed is further lowered, a toggle-operating plate 16 integrally made up of a lever part 12 passes through the reversing point of a toggle mechanism 14, and the headboard controller 10 integrally made up of the lever part 12 of the headboard controller and the toggle-operating plate 16 turns making the shaft of a hinge 18 to take the horizontal position and is placed in the upper position of the bed 1. Thus, the headboard controller 10 can be operated in such a condition that one is lying on the bed to control various equipments such as lighting equipment, AV, air-conditioning equipment, security equipment.
KAWACHI TAKASHI
TANAKA TOMOJI
