Chair for treatment of hearing-impaired patient

Abstract

The present invention provides a chair for the treatment of a hearing-impaired patient, the chair comprising a chair main body on which a hearing-impaired patient can sit during treatment and provided with a backrest part, and a voice control part that comprises: a support member fixed to the backrest part and formed in a curved shape so as to surround the circumference of the head of a hearing-impaired patient when the patient is seated on the chair main body; voice-transmission speakers provided at the ends of the inner surface of the support member and for transmitting the voice of a practitioner to the patient; and a plurality of noise-blocking speakers installed on the outer surface of the support member at regular intervals along the circumferential direction thereof and for blocking external noise from being transmitted to the patient, and thus when a hearing-impaired patient undertakes treatment it is possible to communicate with the hearing-impaired patient in a hospital outpatient treatment environment which a plurality of patients attend, the voice of a doctor providing treatment can be transmitted without anything being worn on the body, and the situation where a loud voice travels to the outside of a treatment room when voice information is transmitted to a hearing-impaired patient is prevented, thus sensitive information of the patient can be protected.

Description

Chair for treating hearing impaired patients

[0001] The present invention relates to a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient, and more particularly, to a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient that enables communication with a hearing-impaired patient in an outpatient treatment environment of a hospital where many patients visit, while transmitting the doctor's voice without being worn on the body, and protects the patient's sensitive information by preventing loud sounds from being transmitted outside the treatment room while transmitting voice information to the hearing-impaired patient.

[0002] Hearing loss is a condition in which hearing is impaired or lost due to various causes. The ear is comprised of the outer ear (from the auricle to the eardrum), the middle ear (from the eardrum to the entrance of the cochlea), and the inner ear (inside the cochlea). Problems in any of these areas can result in hearing loss.

[0003] Hearing loss is divided into hearing loss due to disorders of the outer and middle ear (conductive hearing loss) and hearing loss due to disorders of the inner ear and auditory nerve system (sensorineural hearing loss). Hearing loss due to disorders of the outer and middle ear can be recovered when the disorders are treated, but hearing loss due to disorders of the inner ear and auditory nerve system often does not recover even when the disorders are treated, causing great inconvenience to patients.

[0004] In addition, when these hearing-impaired patients visit the hospital and receive treatment, it is difficult to communicate with the medical staff, which causes inconvenience. To solve this problem, hearing-impaired patients have been wearing separate headphones to communicate with the medical staff and receive treatment while maintaining a conversation with the medical staff through these headphones.

[0005] Therefore, in conventional cases, hearing-impaired patients have to sit on an examination chair and wear headphones, which can cause pain in the ears. In addition, since the conversation takes place while wearing headphones in the patient's ears, the patient has to speak in a louder voice than usual, which can lead to the leakage of personal and sensitive information of the hearing-impaired patient to other patients or medical staff nearby.

[0006] The purpose of the present invention, which has been devised in consideration of the above points, is to provide a chair for treating hearing-impaired patients, which enables communication with hearing-impaired patients in an outpatient treatment environment of a hospital where many patients visit, while transmitting the doctor's voice without being worn on the body, and protects the patient's sensitive information by preventing loud sounds from being transmitted outside the treatment room while transmitting voice information to the hearing-impaired patient.

[0007] In order to achieve the above object of the present invention, a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient is characterized by including a chair body having a backrest for allowing a hearing-impaired patient to sit during treatment; a support member fixed to the backrest and formed in a curved shape to wrap around the head of a hearing-impaired patient when the hearing-impaired patient sits on the chair body; a voice control unit including a voice transmission speaker provided on an end of an inner plate surface of the support member for transmitting the voice of a doctor to the patient; and a plurality of voice blocking speakers installed on an outer plate surface of the support member at a predetermined interval along the circumferential direction of the support member to block external voices from being transmitted to the patient.

[0008] Here, the voice control unit may be installed to be movable along the height direction of the backrest unit so that the height can be adjusted.

[0009] In addition, the support member may be provided with a length adjustment part that allows the length of the support member to be adjusted so that the speaker for voice transmission can be placed in an area close to the ear of a hearing-impaired patient.

[0010] In addition, the length adjustment part may be composed of a plurality of sliding pieces that are installed so as to be able to slide and move relative to each other so that the support member can be deployed and overlapped to a certain length.

[0011] In addition, a microphone is installed on the doctor's desk in the examination room where the doctor is located, and the microphone is connected to an amplifier to amplify the voice signal and then transmit the voice through the voice transmission speaker in a wired or wireless manner.

[0012] And, the voice signal, which has undergone a reverse sound wave through the condenser, is transmitted to the voice-blocking speaker side, so that the sound pressure difference between the inner and outer spaces of the support member is maintained, thereby enabling the voice of the doctor to be clearly transmitted to the hearing-impaired patient side.

[0013] As described above, the chair for treating hearing-impaired patients according to the present invention enables communication with hearing-impaired patients in an outpatient treatment environment of a hospital where many patients visit, while transmitting the doctor's voice without being worn on the body, and has the effect of protecting the patient's sensitive information by preventing loud sounds from being transmitted outside the treatment room while transmitting voice information to the hearing-impaired patient.

[0014] Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the structure of a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0015] Figure 2 is a diagram showing a state in which a hearing-impaired patient is seated on a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient and is prepared for treatment according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0016] FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a structure in which a voice control unit of a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient according to another embodiment of the present invention is placed around the head of a hearing-impaired patient.

[0017] FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the structure of a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0018] Hereinafter, a chair for treating a hearing impaired patient according to one embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the attached drawings.

[0019] FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating the structure of a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient according to one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a hearing-impaired patient is seated on a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient and is prepared for treatment according to one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a plan view illustrating a structure in which a voice control unit of a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient is arranged around the head of a hearing-impaired patient according to another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a perspective view illustrating the structure of a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0020] As shown in these drawings, a chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a chair body (100) having a backrest (110) for allowing a hearing-impaired patient to sit during treatment; a support member (210) formed in a curved shape to wrap around the head of a hearing-impaired patient when the hearing-impaired patient sits on the chair body (100) by being fixed to the backrest (110); a voice transmission speaker (220) provided at an end of an inner plate surface of the support member (210) for transmitting the doctor's voice to the patient; and a voice blocking speaker (230) installed in multiple numbers on an outer plate surface of the support member (210) at a predetermined interval along the circumferential direction of the support member (210) to block external voices from being transmitted to the patient.

[0021] The chair body (100) is provided with a seat (120) on which a hearing-impaired patient can sit so that the hearing-impaired patient can be examined by a therapist while seated during examination. A backrest (110) is installed at a certain height on the back of the seat (120) to support the back of a hearing-impaired patient seated on the seat (120).

[0022] In addition, a plurality of wheel members (130) are installed at a plurality of locations on the lower surface of the chair body (100) to enable the chair body (100) to be easily moved.

[0023] The voice control unit (200) is installed in the backrest (110) and wraps around the head of a hearing-impaired patient while the patient is seated on the chair body (100), thereby blocking external noise while allowing conversation with the practitioner, thereby facilitating treatment.

[0024] In addition, it is preferable that the voice control unit (200) be installed so as to be movable along the height direction of the backrest unit (110) so as to be height-adjustable, so that the height at which the voice control unit (200) is placed can be adjusted to an appropriate height according to the sitting height of the hearing-impaired patient, so that the voice transmission speaker (220) described later can be placed in an area close to the ears of the hearing-impaired patient.

[0025] As described above, the voice control unit is composed of a support member (210) that is fixed to the backrest member (110) and formed in a curved shape to wrap around the head of a hearing-impaired patient when the patient sits on the chair body (100), a voice transmission speaker (220) that is provided on the inner side of the support member (210) to transmit the doctor's voice to the patient, and a plurality of voice blocking speakers (230) that are installed on the outer side of the support member (210) at a predetermined interval along the circumference of the support member (210) to block external voices from being transmitted to the patient.

[0026] The support member (210) is formed with a curved plate surface to have a semicircular cross-section, and is positioned to surround the back and sides of the head of a hearing-impaired patient when the patient sits on the chair body (100).

[0027] In order to install the voice control unit (200) so that it can move along the height direction of the backrest unit (110), it is effective to install one side of the central region of the support member (210) so that it can slide and move on the backrest unit (110).

[0028] Speakers (220) for voice transmission are provided on both sides of the inner end of the support member (210) and are positioned close to the ears of the hearing-impaired patient when the patient sits on the chair body (100) to accurately transmit the voice of the therapist to the hearing-impaired patient, thereby enabling conversation.

[0029] To this end, it is preferable that a microphone be installed on the doctor's desk in the examination room where the doctor is located, and that the microphone be connected to an amplifier to amplify the voice signal and then transmit the voice through the voice transmission speaker (220) in a wired or wireless manner.

[0030] In addition, it is more effective to transmit the doctor's voice transmitted through the microphone through a condenser so that sound waves are reversed, and to transmit the reversed sound signal to the voice blocking speaker (230) so that the sound pressure difference between the inner and outer spaces of the support member (210) is maintained, thereby enabling the doctor's voice to be clearly transmitted to the hearing-impaired patient.

[0031] In addition, it is preferable that the support member (210) be provided with a length adjustment part (240) that allows the length of the support member (210) to be adjusted so that the speaker (220) for voice transmission can be placed in an area close to the ear of a hearing-impaired patient.

[0032] This is to adjust the height of the support member (210) to be the same as the sitting height of the hearing-impaired patient while the hearing-impaired patient is seated on the chair body (100), and to adjust the speaker (220) for voice transmission provided at the end of the support member (210) to be positioned closer to the ear of the hearing-impaired patient according to the head size of the hearing-impaired patient.

[0033] This length adjustment part (240) is configured to be composed of a plurality of sliding pieces (241) that are installed so as to be able to slide and move relative to each other so that the support member (210) can be deployed and overlapped to a certain length.

[0034] Since the length adjustment part (240) is composed of a plurality of sliding pieces (241), the overall length of the support member (210) formed to be curved is adjusted in an antenna manner, thereby allowing the voice transmission speaker (220) installed at both inner ends of the support member (210) to be positioned closer to the ears of a hearing-impaired patient.

[0035] The voice-blocking speaker (230) is installed in multiple numbers at a set interval on the outer surface opposite to the inner surface of the support member (210) where the voice-transmitting speaker (220) is installed, so that the voice signal whose sound wave is reversed through the condenser is transmitted to the voice-blocking speaker (230) side, thereby maintaining the sound pressure difference between the inner and outer spaces of the support member (210), thereby ensuring that the voice of the doctor is clearly transmitted to the hearing-impaired patient, and preventing the voice transmitted to the voice-transmitting speaker (120) from leaking to the outside.

[0036] The process of treating a hearing-impaired patient using a hearing-impaired patient treatment chair according to the present invention having such a configuration is described as follows.

[0037] First, in order to treat a hearing-impaired patient, when the hearing-impaired patient sits on the seat (120) of the chair body (100), the therapist adjusts the height of the voice control unit (200) that is slidably installed on the backrest (110) to match the sitting height of the hearing-impaired patient, so that the voice transmission speakers (220) provided on both sides of the inner end of the support member (210) are positioned in an area close to the ears of the hearing-impaired patient.

[0038] And, the sliding piece (241), which is the length adjustment part (240), is pushed or pulled so that it overlaps or unfolds, so that the sound transmission speaker (220) provided on both sides of the inner end of the support member (210) is placed in an area close to the ears of the hearing-impaired patient.

[0039] In this state, the treatment is conducted by transmitting the voice to the voice transmission speaker (220) through the microphone installed on the doctor's desk.

[0040] At this time, the doctor's voice is amplified as a voice signal by a separate amplifier and output to the voice transmission speaker (220), so that clear voice transmission is possible, and at the same time, the doctor's voice passes through the condenser so that sound waves are reversed, and the voice signal with the reversed sound waves is transmitted to the voice blocking speaker (230) side, so that the sound pressure difference between the inner and outer spaces of the support member (210) is maintained, so that the doctor's voice can be transmitted more clearly to the hearing-impaired patient.

[0041] A chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient according to one embodiment of the present invention having the configuration described above enables communication with a hearing-impaired patient in an outpatient treatment environment of a hospital where many patients visit, while transmitting the doctor's voice without being worn on the body, and protects the patient's sensitive information by preventing loud sounds from being transmitted outside the treatment room while transmitting voice information to the hearing-impaired patient.

[0042] The above is only a description of some of the preferred embodiments that can be implemented by the present invention, and as is well known, the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the above embodiments, and the technical idea of ​​the present invention described above and the technical idea that shares its basis are all included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A chair body (100) equipped with a backrest (110) so that a hearing-impaired patient can sit during treatment; A voice control unit (200) comprising a support member (210) formed in a curved shape to wrap around the head of a hearing-impaired patient when the patient sits on the chair body (100) by being fixed to the backrest member (110), a voice transmission speaker (220) provided on an inner side surface end of the support member (210) to transmit the voice of a doctor to the patient, and a voice blocking speaker (230) installed in multiple numbers on an outer side surface of the support member (210) at a predetermined interval along the circumference direction of the support member (210) to block external voices from being transmitted to the patient; A chair for treating hearing impaired patients, characterized by including:

2. In paragraph 1, A chair for treating hearing-impaired patients, characterized in that the voice control unit (200) is installed so as to be movable along the height direction of the backrest unit (110) so as to enable height adjustment.

3. In paragraph 1, A chair for treating a hearing-impaired patient, characterized in that the support member (210) is provided with a length adjustment part (240) that allows the length of the support member (210) to be adjusted so that the speaker (220) for voice transmission can be placed in an area close to the ear of the hearing-impaired patient.

4. In paragraph 3, A chair for treating a hearing impaired patient, characterized in that the length adjustment part (240) is composed of a plurality of sliding pieces (241) that are installed so as to be able to slide and move relative to each other so that the support member (210) can be deployed and overlapped to a certain length.

5. In any one of paragraphs 1 to 4, A chair for treating hearing-impaired patients, characterized in that a microphone is provided on the doctor's desk in the examination room where the doctor is located, the microphone is connected to an amplifier to amplify a voice signal, and then the voice is transmitted through the voice transmission speaker (220) in a wired or wireless manner.

6. In paragraph 5, A chair for treating hearing-impaired patients, characterized in that a voice signal, in which sound waves are reversed after passing through a condenser, is transmitted to a voice-blocking speaker (230) to maintain a sound pressure difference between the inner and outer spaces of the support member (210), thereby allowing the voice of the practitioner to be clearly transmitted to the hearing-impaired patient.

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