handle the bed。 For example, when the wheel chair is being placed in the middle storage space again, the bed will have to be reassembled。

[0009] In the nursing care bed proposed in the Japanese patent application No。 2001-218799 mentioned above, the provisions for adjusting the height of the bed and for moving the entire bed are not considered。 The reclining mechanism for the entire bed is not  provided。论文网

SUMMARY  OF  THE  INVENTION

[0010] A principal object of the present invention is to provide a nursing care bed equipped with the wheel chair facility, wherein when the nursed person is being moved from the bed onto the wheel chair or stretcher or from the wheel chair or stretcher onto the bed, this can be accom- plished by one nursing person alone, with as little effort as possible as well as easily and with  safety。

[0011] In order to attain the above object, the nursing care bed with the wheel chair facility according to the present invention comprises a bed frame including a head board, a first bed body and a second bed body, the first bed body and second bed body extending longitudinally of the bed frame and spaced away from each other and each of the first and second bed bodies having one end secured to the corre- sponding lateral side of the head board, and a wheel chair having casters mounted beneath the bed frame for moving the wheel chair into or out of the bed frame between the first and second bed bodies。

[0012]  The first bed body and second bed body each have a first bed mat portion and a second bed mat section on the upper side thereof, respectively, each of the first and second bed mat sections including a back bed mat part, a seat bed mat part, leg bed mat part and foot bed mat   part。

[0013] Each of the first bed body and second bed body further includes a bed reclining mechanism, respectively, which may be operated so that the respective back bed mat part, seat bed mat part, leg bed mat part and foot bed mat part included in each corresponding one of the first bed mat section and second bed mat section can be  folded。

[0014] The wheel chair bed body has a wheel chair mat section including a wheel chair mat part, wheel chair mat part, wheel chair leg mat part and wheel chair foot mat part, and further includes a wheel chair reclining mechanism and a wheel chair lifting mechanism。

[0015] The wheel chair reclining mechanism may be oper- ated so that the wheel chair mat part, wheel chair mat part, wheel chair leg mat part and wheel chair foot mat part included in the wheel  chair mat  section can be folded。

[0016] The wheel chair lifting mechanism may be oper- ated so that the wheel chair mat section can be moving up and down in the vertical direction, and may also be operated so that the wheel chair mat section can be moving up and down in the vertical direction when the wheel chair mat section is extended to be flat in the horizontal   direction。

[0017] In the nursing care bed with the wheel chair facility as described above, the respective back bed mat parts, seat bed mat parts, leg bed mat parts and foot bed mat parts included in the first bed mat section on the first bed body and in the second bed mat section on the second bed body, and the corresponding wheel chair mat part, wheel chair seat mat

part, wheel chair leg mat part and wheel chair foot mat part included in the wheel chair mat section on the wheel chair bed body have the same length as measured in the longitu- dinal direction。

[0018] When the wheel chair reclining mechanism is then operated so that the wheel chair bed body placed in the middle space between the first and second bed bodies can be made to be flat, the upper side of the first bed mat section on the first bed body, the upper side of the second bed mat section on the second bed body and the upper side of the wheel chair mat section on the flat wheel chair bed body will become flush with each other。 The upper side of the nursing care bed can be formed in this  way。