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Portable Bathing System for Bedridden People

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Innovations in Mechatronics Engineering (icieng 2021)

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A portable bathing system for bedridden people was designed to help facilitate the bath and to reduce the lack of privacy of such patients. This system comprises a cylindric stainless steel reservoir with an insulation of polyurethane foam, a rectangular low-density polyethylene board and a galvanized steel transport system. This system allows the reproduction of a conventional shower bath at a constant temperature, improving the bedridden hygiene, self-esteem and quality of life, while reducing the physical effort made by the caregiver. The modeling of the three components and the analysis of the transport system was done with Inventor® Software, obtaining for the transport system a maximum stress of 0.011 MPa and a maximum displacement of 3.438 × 10–6 mm, for an applied load of 200 kg. Since the displacement was relatively small, the system can withstand the load.

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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDP/04077/2020.

The authors are grateful for the contribution of Dr. Isabel Rocha, Director of Santa Casa da Misericordia in Braga, Portugal.

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    M. Leonor Castro-Ribeiro, A. A. Vilaça, Mariana A. Pires & Ana Olival

  2. METRICs Research Center, University of Minho, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Karolina Bezerra & Cândida Vilarinho

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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  2. Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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  3. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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Castro-Ribeiro, M.L., Vilaça, A.A., Pires, M.A., Bezerra, K., Vilarinho, C., Olival, A. (2022). Portable Bathing System for Bedridden People. In: Machado, J., Soares, F., Trojanowska, J., Yildirim, S. (eds) Innovations in Mechatronics Engineering. icieng 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79168-1_36

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