Incubator assembly

摘要

An improved incubator assembly includes a number of movable walls and a circulation system having a fluid guide apparatus adjacent each movable wall. The fluid guide apparatuses generate a first jet of air in a direction generally parallel with a wall in the closed position and a second jet of air in a direction oblique to the wall in the closed position. Whenever one of the movable walls is moved from its closed position to its open position, the jet of air that had been flowing parallel with such wall continues to flow and forms an air curtain.

主权项

1. An incubator assembly comprising:
a patient support platform; a canopy situated to surround at least a portion of the patient support platform, the canopy comprising a wall apparatus and a roof, the wall apparatus extending between the patient support platform and the roof, the canopy having an interior between the patient support platform and the roof; the wall apparatus comprising a plurality of walls, at least one wall within the plurality of walls being movable between a closed position extending between the roof and a region peripheral to the patient support platform and an open position wherein the at least one wall is displaced from at least one of the roof and the region peripheral to the patient support platform, the at least one wall including a channel formed internally within the wall and configured to conduct fluid, wherein the channel has an outlet adjacent the roof; and a circulation system structured to circulate fluid within the interior of the canopy and through the interior channel of the wall, the circulation system comprising a fluid pump and a number of fluid guide apparatuses extending adjacent to at least a portion of the patient support platform, at least some of the fluid guide apparatuses comprising:
a first opening structured to direct a first jet of fluid toward the roof both:
(a) through the interior channel in the at least one wall, and(b) within the canopy along an interior surface of the at least one wall in a direction generally parallel with the at least one wall in the closed position, anda second opening structured to direct a second jet of fluid in a direction oblique to the at least one wall in the closed position, whereinthe roof forms therein a number of elongated openings that comprise a first elongated opening extending generally centrally along the roof and a lateral elongated opening extending substantially parallel with the first elongated opening and being situated between the first elongated opening and the at least first wall, the number of elongated openings being structured to receive fluid therethrough for transmission in a direction toward the fluid pump.