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US 7,461,425 B2Granted
Bed with automatically identifiable mattress type
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsKenith W. Chambers, Suzanne Bish, Mary Butler
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Abstract
A bed includes a mattress having a core the core being one of at least two types. A control system is capable of automatically identifying the core type. In one variant, one core type is a bladder core type and another core type is a foam core type. The mattress may include a tag indicative of the core type and the control system may include a sensor for identifying the core type from the tag and wherein the sensor sends a signal to a controller to indicate a tag type and therefore a mattress type.
Claims3
A bed, comprising:
- a mattress having a core, the core being of a type selected from the group comprising a first type and a second type;
- a control system capable of automatically identifying the core type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.