Stabilizer for medical carts
AssigneeDigicuto
InventorsStefan Koubi, Galip Gurel, Karim Tourbah
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Abstract
The invention relates to a stabilization device for medical carts as well as to a movable itinerant robotic dental or medical treatment station. One of the objectives of this invention is to provide a stabilization device (100) for a medical cart (200). For this, the inventors propose an easily-actuated mechanical structure and which can be removably mounted or permanently fixed to a floor of the medical cart (200). In practice, the stabilization device according to the invention comprises ground stabilizing feet (110), a control mechanism (120) and a control transmission mechanism (130).
Claims20
A stabilization device for a medical cart comprising a carrier floor frame, the stabilization device comprising:
- ground stabilizing feet which are configured to support the carrier floor frame and which are convertible between a deployed configuration in which the ground stabilizing feet are bearing on the ground, in a stable manner, so as to support, together, all or part of what the carrier floor frame supports, and a folded configuration in which the ground stabilizing feet are off the ground so as to ensure an at least partial retraction,
- a control mechanism which can be displaced between a first position and a second position, in response to at least one translational movement or at least one rotational movement, and
- a control transmission mechanism which comprises:
- a connection assembly which comprises:
- at least a first articulation, with at least one degree of freedom, which is directly connected to a second portion of a control transmission element and to a first one of said ground stabilizing feet,
- a second articulation, with at least one degree of freedom, which is directly connected to a second one of said ground stabilizing feet, and
- a connection structure which is connected between the first articulation and the second articulation, and
- said control transmission element having a first portion of the control transmission element kinematically connected, in a direct or indirect manner, to the control mechanism, and the second portion of the control transmission element kinematically connected, in an articulated manner, to the ground stabilizing feet via the connection assembly, the control transmission element being rotatably mounted about a first axis of rotation so as to be driven in rotation in a first direction of rotation and in a second direction of rotation opposite to the first direction of rotation,
- wherein,
- the control transmission mechanism is configured so that the actuation of the control mechanism in the first position or in the second position drives in rotation the control transmission element about the first axis of rotation, and allows the ground stabilizing feet to alternate between the deployed configuration and the folded configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.