Patent ID: 7174586
Filing Date: 2007-02-13
Classification: A61G,H02P

Abstract:
1. An operation control apparatus for an electric bed which has a bottom drive member for lifting up and down at least one of a back bottom and a knee bottom tiltably attached to a frame and a frame drive member for lifting up and down said frame and which operates said bottoms and frame of said bed by driving said bottom drive member or said frame drive member in response to a signal from a remote control switch or a fixed switch, said operation control apparatus comprising: a memory device which stores operation start points and operation end points of said bottom drive member and said frame drive member, a drive start point of each bottom and a drive end point of each bottom or a drive time of each bottom, a type of a lift-up or lift-down operation of each bottom, a drive start point and a drive end point of said frame, and a type of a lift-up or lift-down operation of said frame, or a type of an operated button of said remote control switch or said fixed switch; and an output unit which outputs memory contents of said memory device in response to an external request signal, wherein said memory device stores data whose amount is equal to or less than a capacity of said memory device, starting from latest data, in a memory section.