Title:
BATHROOM MONITOR, BATHROOM DRYER, BATHROOM HEATER, AND BATHROOM VENTILATION FAN
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2017162040
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that, when a bather loses consciousness in a bathroom, a bathroom monitor that causes a body motion detector for detecting movement of a human body, to detect abnormality and that notifies a family outside the bathroom thereof, determines abnormality when movement of the human body is not detected, and consequently, cannot discriminate a normal state where the bather sits in the bath and is relaxed in a still state, from an abnormal state where the bather loses consciousness and cannot move.SOLUTION: The bathroom monitor includes: position detecting means for acquiring position information of a detection object in a bathtub or in an upper space thereof; determination means for determining whether a bather in a bathroom is in a normal state or an abnormal state by an event from which zone out of a plurality of monitoring zones defined in the bathtub and the upper space thereof, the position information of the detection object is detected; and notification means that, when the determination means determines to be the abnormal state, notifies a person inside or outside the bathroom of the abnormality.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
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Inventors:
MOTOKI ICHIRO
NUMAKURA MAKOTO
MASUDA KENJI
NUMAKURA MAKOTO
MASUDA KENJI
Application Number:
JP2016043975A
Publication Date:
September 14, 2017
Filing Date:
March 08, 2016
Export Citation:
Assignee:
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
International Classes:
G08B21/08; A61H33/00; F24D15/00; F24H1/00; F26B9/02; G08B25/04
Domestic Patent References:
JP2008052626A | 2008-03-06 | |||
JP2002288759A | 2002-10-04 | |||
JP2004033319A | 2004-02-05 | |||
JP2011245111A | 2011-12-08 | |||
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Foreign References:
US20120050049A1 | 2012-03-01 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tadahiko Inaba
Kanako Murakami
Shigeaki Matsui
Kuratani Yasutaka
Kanako Murakami
Shigeaki Matsui
Kuratani Yasutaka