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US 2014/0109317 A1Published application
Siderail assembly for patient support apparatus
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorKirill Andrienko
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Abstract
A siderail assembly includes a guide, a support coupled to the guide to move relative to the guide, and a barrier coupled to the guide. The barrier is movable between a lowered position, wherein the barrier is situated substantially below a frame of a patient support apparatus, and a raised position, wherein the barrier is situated substantially above the frame.
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A patient support apparatus comprising
- a base,
- a frame coupled to the base, the frame being movable relative to the base,
- a deck supported by the frame and movable relative to the frame between a horizontal position and an articulated position, the deck including at least a head section, a foot section spaced-apart from the head section, and a seat section positioned between the head section and the foot section, and the foot section being pivotable about a first lateral pivot axis relative to the frame, and
- a siderail assembly including
- a guide coupled to the frame of the patient support apparatus,
- a support coupled to the guide to move relative to the guide,
- a barrier including a lower panel coupled to the support to move therewith and an upper panel coupled to the lower panel to extend in an upward direction away from the lower panel, the barrier being movable between a raised position wherein the upper panel is positioned to lie above the deck and a lowered position wherein the lower panel is positioned to lie below the deck while the barrier remains in a generally vertical orientation, and
- a pivot unit arranged to interconnect the upper panel to the lower panel to cause the upper panel to rotate about a generally vertical axis from a straight position wherein the upper panel is generally aligned vertically with the lower panel and positioned to lie outside of a seat-section space defined to be above the seat section and by a perimeter of the seat section and a canted position wherein the upper panel has rotated toward the seat section of the deck to cause the upper panel to extend into the seat-section space so that an angle is defined between the upper panel and the lower panel.
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A patient support apparatus comprising
- a base,
- a frame coupled to the base, the frame being movable relative to the base,
- a deck supported by the frame and movable relative to the frame between a horizontal position and an articulated position, the deck including at least a head section, a foot section spaced-apart from the head section, and a seat section positioned between the head section and the foot section, and the foot section being pivotable about a first lateral pivot axis relative to the frame, and
- a siderail assembly including,
- a guide,
- a support coupled to the guide to move relative to the guide,
- a barrier including a foot end and an opposite head end spaced-apart from the foot end, the barrier being coupled to the support to move about a generally longitudinal axis between a raised position wherein the upper panel is positioned to lie above the deck and a lowered position wherein the lower panel is positioned to lie below the deck while the barrier remains in a generally vertical orientation, and
- a pivot unit including a carrier foundation coupled to the frame in a fixed position relative to the frame, a guide carrier coupled to the guide to cause the guide, the support, and the barrier to move therewith, and a pivot arranged to interconnect the guide carrier and the carrier foundation to cause the guide carrier to move about a vertical axis relative to the carrier foundation between a straight position wherein the barrier is spaced-apart laterally from the deck and a canted position wherein the barrier has rotated about the vertical axis in a first direction toward the deck to cause the barrier to extend toward the deck.
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A patient support apparatus comprising
- a base,
- a frame coupled to the base, the frame being movable relative to the base,
- a deck supported by the frame and movable relative to the frame between a horizontal position and an articulated position, the deck including at least a head section, a foot section spaced-apart from the head section, and a seat section positioned between the head section and the foot section, and the foot section being pivotable about a first lateral pivot axis relative to the frame, and the seat section including a top surface arranged to face in an upward direction, an opposite bottom surface, a first longitudinal side extending between the top and bottom surfaces, and a second longitudinal side space-apart from and generally parallel to the first longitudinal side,
- a first siderail assembly coupled to the frame along the second longitudinal side of the seat section, the first siderail assembly including a foot end and an opposite head end spaced-apart from the foot end, and
- a second siderail assembly including
- a guide coupled to the frame of the patient support apparatus along the first longitudinal side of the seat section,
- a support coupled to the guide to move relative to the guide,
- a barrier including a lower panel coupled to the support to move therewith and an upper panel coupled to the lower panel to extend in the upward direction away from the lower panel, the upper panel including a foot end and an opposite head end spaced-apart from the foot end, and the barrier being movable about a generally longitudinal axis between a raised position wherein the upper panel is positioned to lie above the deck and a lowered position wherein the lower panel is positioned to lie below the deck, and the barrier remains in a generally vertical orientation during movement between the lowered and the raised positions, and
- a pivot unit configured to move the upper panel of the barrier about a vertical axis relative to the seat section from an aligned position in which the upper panel is spaced-apart laterally from the seat section to cause a first distance to be defined between the foot end of the first siderail assembly and the foot end of the upper panel to a canted position in which the upper panel has moved about the vertical axis toward the seat section to cause a second distance to be defined between the foot end of the first siderail assembly and the foot end of the upper panel, and the first distance is greater than the second distance.
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