US 7,296,312 B2Granted

Hospital bed

AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.

InventorsDouglas J. Menkedick, Eugene E. Osborne, Robert M. Zerhusen, David A. Albersmeyer, Roger S. Philbeck, Aziz Ali Bhai, Nicholas C. Batta, Terry L. Richter, Tom Riggs, Kenith W. Chambers, Steven J. Schwartz, Matthew R. Knue, Steve A. Dixon, Joshua W. Shenk, Brent Goodwin, Andrew F. Skinner, Gregory J. Figel, James R. Stolpmann, James K. Findlay, Glenn C. Suttman, Brian J. Hoffman, Irvin J. Vanderpohl, III, David W. Hornbach, Paul R. Weil, Kenneth L. Kramer, Jeffrey R. Welling, Eric R. Meyer, Jack Wilker, Jr., David P. Lubbers, Roberta M. Murnyack, Cami S. Scheele

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Abstract

A patient support including a frame and a mattress supported by the frame. The frame includes a deck support and a deck supporting the mattress.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A patient support comprising,

a frame positioned to support a mattress, the frame including a base frame supported by a floor, an intermediate frame positioned over the base frame, a first pair of lift arms coupled together at a first end by a first cross member, and, a second pair of lift arms coupled together at a first end by a second cross member, the first ends of the first pair of lift arms being configured to slide along at least one of the base frame and the intermediate frame, the first ends of the second pair of lift arms being configured to slide along at least one of the base frame and the intermediate frame, and
at least one actuator configured to move the intermediate framerelative to the base frame between first and second positions, during movement of the intermediate frame between the first and second positions, a distance between the first and second cross members increases to provide clearance for at least one of the intermediate frame and the base frame;
wherein the intermediate frame is positionable between the first and second cross members when the intermediate frame is in the second position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/657,696Filed 8 Sep 2003 · us provisional application
Priority: 6 Sep 2002
Published: US 2005/0172405 A111 Aug 2005
Granted: 20 Nov 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification30 codes

G01G 19/445
For weighing persons: in a horizontal position
A61B 5/1115
Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home: monitoring leaving of a patient support, e.g. a bed or a wheelchair
A61G 7/002
Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons: having adjustable mattress frame
A61G 7/005
Having adjustable mattress frame: tiltable around transverse horizontal axis, e.g. for Trendelenburg position

Family

Application60/408,698Us provisional application · filed 6 Sep 2002
Application60/409,748Us provisional application · filed 11 Sep 2002
Application60/489,171Us provisional application · filed 22 Jul 2003
Application60/490,467Us provisional application · filed 28 Jul 2003
US 2005/0172405 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Aug 2005
US 7,296,312 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.