With Pedestal Means Patents (Class 5/679)
  • Patent number: 11445829
    Abstract: A cooling device includes an insulated cooler for holding cold fluid and ice. The device has a chamber, a cover, and a fill and drain valve. A tube connects the valve to a pump. The pump provides cold fluid to a bladder configured to fit a chair. The bladder can include a back portion, a seat portion and an internal manifold arranged in a closed loop for optimized cooling. The bladder can be reconfigured to cool a targeted portion of a user's body such as a leg, arm, neck, or torso.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Kristopher Muller
  • Patent number: 11197794
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a turning air mattress, a turning air cell, and a control method for a turning air mattress. With structural arrangements of an upper portion and a lower portion of the turning air cell as well as inflation and deflation control, the turning air cell having an upper portion that is wider and a lower portion that is narrower can further assist a patient in body turning, enabling the patient to easily achieve a sufficient body turning angle, further reducing the risk of likeliness to pressure sores caused by the structure of the air mattress pressing against the body of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MEDICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Ming-Lung Chang, Ming-Heng Hsieh, Wen-Ching Cheng, Pi-Kai Lee, Yu-Chen Liu, Fang-Ju Chou
  • Patent number: 10485356
    Abstract: A foldable mattress includes a mattress body having a top layer and a bottom layer, a core mattress support disposed between the top and bottom layers within a center portion of the mattress body, an air valve operatively coupled at the mattress body for inflating the mattress body from a folded state to an unfolded state, and a peripheral mattress support disposed at a peripheral portion of the mattress body when the mattress body is in the unfolded state. At the folded state, the mattress body is air-vacuumed that the top layer is overlapped on the bottom layer to compress the core mattress support therebetween to minimize a thickness of the mattress body. At the unfolded state, the mattress body is inflated to uncompress the core mattress support so as to fully expand the mattress body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Furniture of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Lei Yang
  • Patent number: 9139332
    Abstract: A rapid assembly support structure having a top deck panel with a top surface and a bottom surface, side flaps, and corner flaps, and a plurality of drain apertures formed through the top deck panel at spaced apart locations. Side rail elements are affixed to the top surface of the top deck panel, atop the side flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Oddello Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Roberts, Shawn M. Parella
  • Patent number: 7849541
    Abstract: A bed mattress support apparatus and method includes a fluid filled bladder or multiplicity of bladders to vertically support a rigid platform. The rigid platform provides a suspended surface to support a mattress, foam pad, or other mattress-like device. A frame surrounds the bladder to prevent lateral movement of the bladder. Motion limiting features control vertical displacement of the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Inventor: Derek K. Gauger
  • Publication number: 20090193580
    Abstract: A bed mattress support apparatus and method includes a fluid filled bladder or multiplicity of bladders to vertically support a rigid platform. The rigid platform provides a suspended surface to support a mattress, foam pad, or other mattress-like device. A frame surrounds the bladder to prevent lateral movement of the bladder. Motion limiting features control vertical displacement of the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventor: Derek K. Gauger