Electric breast pump, control method for electric breast pump, and control program for electric breast pump

Abstract

Provided is an electric breast pump and the like that make it possible to pump breast milk at a suction pressure suitable for a user such as a mother. The electric breast pump (1) is provided with a breast arrangement section (12) in which a breast region of a subject including a breast and a nipple is arranged and a suction pressure-generating section (10, 50) that generates suction pressure within the breast arrangement section. The suction pressure-generating section generates a suction cycle comprising a plurality of different suction pressures. The suction cycle includes basic suction, increased suction in which the suction pressure is increased, and reduced suction in which the suction pressure is reduced. The amount by which the suction pressure is increased in the increased suctionand the amount by which the suction pressure is reduced in the reduced suction are the same amount of pressure, and these amounts are a pressure difference corresponding to a threshold at which the user senses the change in suction pressure. The basic suction, the increased suction, and the reduced suction are each repeated at the same suction pressure in succession multiple times in the suctioncycle.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an electric breast pump, a control method of the electric breast pump, and a control program of the electric breast pump, which are used by, for example, mothers to pump breast milk. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, a breast pump is used when a mother pumps breast milk for an infant and stores it in a feeding bottle or the like. [0003] There are so-called "manual breast pumps" and "electric breast pumps" as types of such breast pumps. [0004] A "manual breast pump" has an operating lever that is oscillated by an operator's operation, and a negative pressure space is generated in a breast pump main body by the oscillating operation of the operating lever. [0005] In addition, the breast milk is drawn in from the mother's breast and pumped using the negative pressure space. [0006] On the other hand, the "electric breast pump" does not have an operating lever for the operator to operate, but a pump is ...

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Problems solved by technology

[0007] Such "electric breast pumps" are mostly used for mothers who are busy raising children and want to pump as much breast milk as possible in the shortest possible time. Breast pump pressure and tendency to increase pumping time

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