Patent ID: 6848133

Claim:
A care bed, comprising: a bed main body provided with an opening for elevating a bedpan, a bedpan assembled downward of the bed main body and supported in a freely elevating manner with respect to the bed main body, a bedpan elevating device that is moved between a lifted position in which the bedpan is lifted through the opening of the bed main body to above the bed surface and a descended position in which it is stored downward of the bed main body, and an excrement collecting device for sucking and collecting excrements from the bedpan, wherein the bed main body is provided with a split mattress that covers the opening in normal conditions and that is pushed upward through lifting force of the bedpan when lifting the bedpan, wherein the split mattress is arranged in that it forms a flat mattress surface together with its peripheral mattress portion in normal conditions, in that it is raised in a suspended manner with respect to the peripheral mattress portion when lifting the bedpan and is maintained in this condition as long as the bedpan is in use, and in that it is descended together with the bedpan when descending the bedpan and assumes a form of a lid covering the opening of the bed main body after the bedpan has passed through, wherein the bedpan is supported in a freely elevating manner with respect to the bed main body while the bedpan is also supported to be freely sliding in a direction that is in line with the bed surface when in the lifted position, and wherein the bed is further provided with a bedpan sliding device for sliding the bedpan in the lifted position in a direction that is in line with the bed surface, and wherein a push up member such as a stay for pushing the split mattress up at the time of lifting the bedpan is provided to be relatively approaching to and separating from the bedpan in a direction that is in line with the bed surface, and wherein the bedpan is allowed to move to the pubic region side of a care-receiving person when the bedpan is in the lifted position with the push up member being in a halted condition while raising the split mattress.