Patent ID: 8409072

Claim:
An infant care apparatus including: a mat to lay an infant thereon, and a heater capable of radiating heat rays toward an upper surface of said mat, wherein said heater includes a substantially rod-like heat generator, and a reflector including an upper reflecting plate portion covering the rod-like heat generator substantially from above; wherein the rod-like heat generator includes a center obliquely above a center of the upper surface of said mat; wherein the upper reflecting plate portion includes an inner surface that forms a reflecting surface extending substantially parallel to an axial direction of the rod-like heat generator, wherein the reflecting surface comprises: a rear end on a side opposite to the center of said mat when seen from the top; a front end opposite to the rear end; a center in a rear end-to-front end direction of the reflecting surface, wherein a distance along the reflecting surface from the center to the rear end is equal to a distance along the reflecting surface from the center to the front end; a first angle at which the rear end of the reflecting surface is bent downward in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction with respect to the center of the reflecting surface, wherein the first angle falls within a range of 60° to 95°; a second angle at which the front end of the reflecting surface is bent downward with respect to the center of the reflecting surface, wherein the second angle is smaller than the first angle and falls within a range of 24° to 36°; a third angle at which the rear end of the reflecting surface is bent downward with respect to the front end of the reflecting surface falls within a range of 85° to 130°; and a fourth angle obtained by subtracting the second angle from the first angle falls within a range of 36° to 58°; wherein said heater is arranged at a heat ray radiation position, said heat ray position being spaced apart from a heat-side end of said mat when seen from the top, wherein a distance from the center of the rod-like heat generator to the center of said mat, when seen from the top, falls within a range of 530 mm to 830 mm when said heater is at said heat ray radiation position.