US 7,621,580 B2 · Ambulance seating system

Abstract

An emergency response type vehicle is provided. The vehicle comprises an operator compartment, a body supported rearward of the operator compartment and having at least one side wall, a guide structure supported at the side wall and extending substantially parallel with the side wall, and a seat assembly movably coupled to the guide structure. The seat assembly has a backrest that is substantially parallel with the side wall. The seat assembly is selectively positionable about the guide structure to provide a movable (e.g., repositionable, reconfigurable, adjustable, adaptable, etc.) seating system within the vehicle so that an attendant can access different areas of the vehicle while remaining seated and restrained in a seat assembly.

Claims24

Dependent claims

An emergency response vehicle comprising:

a body defined at least in part by a side wall;
a guide track extending substantially parallel with the side wall;
an attendant support structure movably coupled to the guide track, the attendant support structure comprises a chair having a backrest and a seat base;
and
a platform supported at a lateral side of the attendant support structure and configured to move between a first position and a second position,
wherein the attendant support structure is selectively movable about the guide track and is configured to occupy a space previously occupied by the platform when the platform is moved to the second position.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/503,386Filed 10 Aug 2006

Published

US 2008/0036232 A114 Feb 2008

Granted

24 Nov 2009

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

B60N 2/24
Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles: for particular purposes or particular vehicles
A61G 3/001
Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances,…
A61G 3/003
Vehicles provided with medical equipment to perform operations or examinations: supplementary seats, e.g. for doctors to take care of a patient
B60N 2/0735
Slide construction: position and orientation of the slide as a whole

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Abstract

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