PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce helpers labor of transferring a wheel chair with a bather into a movable bathtub.SOLUTION: The bathing apparatus is provided with a movable bathtub 14 which can swing around an axis 18 of rotation with respect to a fixed base. A slit 31 extending from one end of the movable bathtub 14 inward is arranged. A support rod 7 supporting a seat 8 of the wheel chair 3 is passed through the slit 31 and is transferred into the movable bathtub 14. A pair of openable/closable seal members are arranged on the slit 31. The support rod 7 is selectively held in a temporary holding position or in a normal holding position in the slit 31. When the support rod 7 of the wheel chair 3 goes into the temporary position in the movable bathtub 14, a limit switch 38 detects it. The movable bathtub 14 is swung from an entering and leaving position to a reference position by a driving cylinder 28. The wheel chair 3 is pushed from the temporary holding position to the normal holding position by a guide 40 arranged in the movable bathtub 14 and the support rod 7 is held by an engaging concave in a liquid-tight manner. The movable bathtub 14 is swung from the reference position to the bathing position integrally with the wheel chair.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】入浴者を載せた車椅子を可動浴槽内に移送する際に介助者の労力を軽減する。【解決手段】入浴装置は、固定台に対して回転軸18回りに回動可能な可動浴槽14を設けた。可動浴槽14の一端から内部に延びる切欠31を設け、車椅子の着座部8を支持する支持ロッド7を切欠31に通して可動浴槽14内に移動させる。切欠31には開閉可能な一対のシール部材を設け、支持ロッド7を切欠31内の仮保持位置と正規の保持位置に選択的に保持する。車椅子の支持ロッド7が可動浴槽14内の仮保持位置に進入するとリミットスイッチ38で検知し、駆動シリンダ28によって可動浴槽14を入出位置から基準位置に回動させ、可動浴槽14に設けたガイド部40で車椅子3を仮保持位置から正規の保持位置に押して嵌合凹部で支持ロッド7を液密に保持する。可動浴槽14を車椅子と一体に基準位置から入浴位置まで回動させる。【選択図】図3
