Thomas L Warner

US Patent:

6419623, Jul 16, 2002

Filed:

Feb 12, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/503063

Inventors:

Christopher A. Dykes - Odenton MD
Thomas W. Warner - Baltimore MD

Assignee:

Datex-Ohmeda, Inc - Madison WI

International Classification:

A61G 1100

US Classification:

600 22

Abstract:

An infant care apparatus is provided that includes a support for underlying the infant within the apparatus for providing care to that infant. The infant care apparatus includes a base, a generally rectangular infant platform supported on said base and has walls that extend upwardly from the base and covered with a hood to form an infant compartment for containing an infant in a controlled atmosphere. The hood is specially configured so as to have a lower edge that interfits over the walls in forming that infant compartment and has side panels that extend upwardly and inwardly from the sides of the hood and front and rear panels. The panels form an upper top surface that is also a flat, planar surface that preferably tapers outward toward the front panel and also is inclined downward at a slight angle toward the front panel. Each of the panels is a flat, planar panel that allows the caregiver good, undistorted visibility into the infant compartment to visually monitor the infant from at least the two longitudinal sides and the front of the apparatus.