Patent ID: 7241145

Claim:
A birth simulator with the following features: a womb torso of flexible material, a child model of flexible material, which is arranged in the womb torso, wherein natural shape and size ratios and haptics are preferably maintained, the child model is connected to a controllable drive via a coupling device in order to move the child model in the womb torso or expel it from the womb torso through a birth canal, and a programmable control device for controlling the drive, which comprises a computer is provided, is hereby characterized in that a sensor arrangement is provided for detecting forces and movements exerted onto the womb torso or the child model by an examining individual using the hands or medical instruments, wherein sensors of the sensor arrangement are fixed on the coupling device and/or the controllable drive and the control device comprises an admittance control or an impedance control for controlling the drive elements, wherein the control device is configured so that measured signals supplied by the sensor arrangement are sent to the computer, in which a simulation program is stored, which, when an exercising individual exerts external forces onto the child model, co-operates with the admittance control or the impedance control of the control device to cause the controllable drive to move the child model so that its movements correspond to the natural movement behavior of a child in its mother's womb during a certain examination or a certain phase of birth.