Large granular food feeder for people with impaired upper limbs and working method thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses a large granular food feeder for people with impaired upper limbs and a using method thereof. The feeder mainly comprises a cylindrical shell, a cup body, a rubber thumbwheel, a driving device and a reciprocating device for twisting the cup back and forth; the thumbwheel is driven to rotate by the driving device; when the thumbwheel rotates, food leaked out from the bottom of the cup body is sent to a housing conveying nozzle; eating is completed by the disabled coming close to the feeder or by the old / the disabled assisting manipulators. According to the invention, by means of the old / the disabled assisting manipulators, the problem of eating large granular food for people with impaired upper limbs can be effectively assisted; the complexity of operation instruction of the old / the disabled assisting manipulators can be reduced; requirement of functions for the old / the disabled assisting manipulators is reduced; inconvenience of picking up food using spoons, chopsticks or forks with the old / the disabled assisting manipulators can be avoided and the awkward situation of leakage of food during feeding process can be avoided. Chances of self-help feeding are provided for people with impaired upper limbs.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the application field of helping the elderly and the disabled, in particular to a large-granular food feeder suitable for upper limb disabled persons and a working method thereof. Background technique [0002] At present, there are some research results on the manipulators for helping the elderly and the disabled in the catering category, and most of them use human-machine interactive control methods with partial intelligent perception (such as speech recognition, image recognition, object positioning, etc.). However, the current manipulators for helping the elderly and the disabled mostly use some conventional eating tools, such as spoons, chopsticks or forks, which bring a lot of inconvenience to the eating work. First, there are many types and shapes of food and beverage items that need to be operated. Different, the operation methods required in the feeding process of the beneficiaries will vary widely. It is difficult to a...

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Problems solved by technology

However, the current manipulators for helping the elderly and the disabled use more conventional eating tools, such as spoons, chopsticks or forks, etc., which brings a lot of inconvenience to the eating work. Different, the operation methods required in the process of feeding the recipients will vary greatly, and it is difficult to accurately pick up and feed various forms of food with conventional tools; second, food is easily spilled during transportation; Constantly sending out various instructions to pick up different types of catering food and feed it to the recipient population, the operation is very complicated and difficult

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