Infant incubator

USRE38453E1 · kind E1 · reissue

Assignee

• Hill-Rom Services, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Joseph J. Lessard · Horsham, US
• Robert M. McDonough · Hatfield, US
• Jan F. Wenstrup · Doylestown, US
• Peter Schumann · Untersiemau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 9, 2004
• Expiry date: Mar 23, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

An infant incubator in which the heater for heating the air circulated through the incubator and the speed of the fan which forces air across the heater to circulate through the incubator are controlled to increase the temperature of the heated air and delivery of the heated air to the space in which an infant has been placed for treatment when an access door of the incubator has been opened. The increase in temperature and delivery of the heated air is caused by a sensor which senses when the access door is opened.