排泄物掃除機の開発

抄録

Because of dementia, patients cannot control excrement activities, and it could cause stress for caregivers in cleaning excrement through gloves or towel paper. Therefore, in this research, we develop a cleaning machine that can clean excrement directly adhering to the floor easily. As the first step of this research, a mechanism can clean the floor with a highly viscous substance is necessary. Authors propose an excrement cleaning machine with 3 cleaning parts, brush or paper towel for dropping dirt directly, a device for spreading liquid, and a device for vacuuming dirt. In this report, we investigated cleaning performance of the proposed prototype of the excrement cleaning machine by different combinations each cleaning parts.