Ambulance cot and loading and unloading system
AssigneeStryker Corporation
InventorsClifford Edwin Lambarth, Chad Conway Souke, Kurosh Nahavandi, Adam Darwin Downey, Robert Gregory Cox
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Abstract
An ambulance cot loading and unloading system for an emergency vehicle includes a base for mounting in the emergency vehicle and an arm mounted for linear movement along the base, wherein the arm configured to support a cot while the cot is being loaded into or unloaded from the emergency vehicle. The ambulance cot loading and unloading system further includes an indicator mounted relative to the arm and a control system, which is in communication with the indicator and configured to generate a status indication of the cot loading and unloading system at the indicator.
Claims24
An ambulance cot and cot loading and unloading system for an emergency vehicle, the emergency vehicle having a deck, said ambulance cot and cot loading and unloading system comprising:
- an ambulance cot;
- a cot loading and unloading apparatus configured to mount to the deck of the emergency vehicle;
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- a control system having a primary control board, a primary user interface in communication with said primary control board, a secondary control board carried by said cot loading and unloading apparatus, and a secondary user interface in communication with said secondary control board and carried by said cot loading and unloading apparatus, said primary user interface being at a location different from said secondary user interface,
- said cot loading and unloading apparatus including a drive mechanism, said secondary control board configured to control said drive mechanism, and said primary control board being configured to control said drive mechanism to thereby allow an attendant to control said drive mechanism from more than one location using said primary user interface or said secondary user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.