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US 9,173,797 B2Granted
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.
Claims16
A patient support apparatus comprising
- a frame, and
- a siderail assembly coupled to the frame and including a barrier including a lower panel and an upper panel above the lower panel, the barrier being movable relative to the frame between a raised position and a lowered position while remaining in a generally vertical orientation, the upper panel being pivotable relative to the lower panel about a generally vertical axis between a straight position generally aligned vertically with the lower panel and a canted position having the upper panel extending over and across the lower panel so that an angle is defined between the upper panel and the lower panel with a first portion of the upper panel being situated on one side of the lower panel and extending away from the lower panel and toward the frame and a second portion of the upper panel being situated on an opposite side of the lower panel and extending away from the lower panel and away from the frame.
A patient support apparatus comprising
- a frame,
- a siderail assembly coupled to the frame and including a barrier including a lower panel and an upper panel above the lower panel, the barrier being movable relative to the frame between a raised position and a lowered position while remaining in a generally vertical orientation, the upper panel being pivotable relative to the lower panel about a generally vertical axis between a straight position generally aligned vertically with the lower panel and a canted position so that an angle is defined between the upper panel and the lower panel, wherein a first portion of the upper panel extends away from the lower panel and toward the frame and a second portion of the upper panel extends away from the lower panel and away from the frame, and
- a position sensor and wherein at least one portion of the frame is prevented from moving in response to the position sensor sensing that the upper panel is in the canted position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.