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US 2003/0194910 A1Published application
Connector
AssigneeCrest Health Care
InventorsMark Peter Stoner, John Joseph Heinsch, David Leland Osterkamp
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AssigneeCrest Health Care
InventorsMark Peter Stoner, John Joseph Heinsch, David Leland Osterkamp
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The present invention relates to an adapter, wherein the adapter has a housing with a rear face, a front face, an outside perimeter face. A first connector is located on the rear face. A second connector and a third connector are located on the front face. A mounting piece is located on the outside perimeter face. The first connector is designed to mate with a connector located on an interface unit coupled to a medical facility communication system. The second connector is designed to mate with a connector on a first end of a communications cable. The second end of the communications cable is connected to an interface, such as a hospital bed interface. The mounting piece has mounting holes that allow the adapter to be attached to the interface unit.
An adapter for facilitating the connection of a communications cable to a wall interface unit of a health care facility, wherein the communications cable includes a first connector and the wall interface unit includes a second connector, the adapter comprising:
A communications system for communicating between a bed interface module of a hospital bed and a medical facility communication system, wherein the bed interface module has a first connector, the system comprising:
A method for connecting a communications cable to a wall interface unit in a hospital bed environment, wherein a cable has a first connector and the interface unit has a second connector, wherein the first and second connectors are incompatible, the method comprising:
A communications cable for connecting between a bed interface module of a hospital bed and an adapter configured to connect to a wall interface module connected to a medical facility communication system, wherein the bed interface module has a first connector and the adapter includes a magnetically actuated reed switch and a second connector, the communication cable comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.