Winding-straps- Or Winding-sheet-type Hoist Patents (Class 5/88.1)
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Patent number: 11324650Abstract: A patient repositioning apparatus includes a mounting frame configured to couple to an underside of a bed frame. A motor housing is rotatably coupled to the mounting frame for rotation about an axis. The motor housing carries a motor and a winch. The motor is operable to turn the winch. A strap is coupled to the winch and configured to be wound around the winch by the motor. The strap has at least one coupling mechanism configured to couple to a bed sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Jie Zhou, Neal Wiggermann
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Patent number: 11058594Abstract: A method and system is provided for repositioning a patient on a transfer surface (e.g., a hospital bed, a stretcher, an imaging system, or the like). The system comprises two rollers positioned on one side of the surface, and a retractable transfer sheet wound around the rollers. The transfer sheet may be unwound from the two rollers to form two layers between the patient and the transfer surface. The patient may then be moved by sliding a top layer of the transfer sheet relative to a second layer of the transfer sheet. After use, the sheet can be retracted around the roller(s), allowing it to be stored in a location that is convenient but out-of-the-way. Such a system may allow a patient to be moved with less force, in less time, with fewer personnel, or with some other benefit.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: MedikEquip LLCInventor: Hakan Yilmaz
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Patent number: 10667973Abstract: A multi-purpose system for a bed includes a number of vertically movable lifting members that are parallel and spaced-apart elongated parts transversally connected to the bed. Furthermore, a mattress assembly that has spaced-apart transversal accommodating spaces thereon that are sized to receive the corresponding movable lifting members therein, and an actuating mechanism coupled with the movable lifting members to vertically move the lifting members between a lowered position and a raised position.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Inventor: Seyed Mehran Bidoki
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Patent number: 10568791Abstract: A patient monitoring and repositioning system includes a mattress, a sheet residing on an upper surface of the mattress, a housing containing a drive mechanism, and a sensor adapted to sense a position of a patient resting on the mattress. The drive mechanism is operable to pull the sheet and thereby pull the patient resting thereon. The housing receives the sheet through a slot. In the event that the patient is in an undesirable position on the mattress as detected by the sensor, a controller directs the drive mechanism to pull the sheet so as to pull the patient thereon from the undesirable position to a desirable, predetermined position. The controller may direct the drive mechanism automatically or indicate the undesirable position to a caregiver so that the caregiver may direct the drive mechanism accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Hillenbrand Management Company LLCInventors: William A. Hillenbrand, II, David Hornbach, Joseph Kummer, Timothy Savage
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Patent number: 10470958Abstract: A patient lift connector for attaching and detaching a patient lifting bar to a load supporting member in a patient lifting system is described. The connector includes a connector body including a connecting block configured to be fixedly attached to the patient lifting bar. The connector also includes a pin holder coupled to the load supporting member and configured to be inserted through the connector body and into the connecting block, and an attachment latch secured to the connector body and configured to move between an open position and a closed position within the connector body. When the attachment latch moves from the closed position to the open position, the pin holder is allowed to be inserted into the connecting block and thereby allow the lifting bar to be attached to the load supporting member.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: ArjoHuntleigh Magog Inc.Inventors: Martin Faucher, Michel Corriveau, Denis-Alexandre Brulotte
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Patent number: 9968500Abstract: A patient transfer system includes a first bed; a second bed; a patient; a sheet having a channel; a bar; a support; means of rotation; and a belt; wherein the patient is reclined on the sheet on the first bed which is positioned next to the second bed; wherein the sheet is configured with a channel that runs along the edge of the sheet so that the bar nest in the channel; wherein the support is in removable communication with the second bed and fixed communication with the rotation device; wherein the rotation device is in removable communication with the bar so that when activated the rotation device pulls on the belt and bar causing the patient to be transferred from the first bed to the second.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Inventors: Afshin Amini, Aziz Allah Vakili, Monsour Farokhnia
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Patent number: 9192170Abstract: In accordance with example embodiment, a system may include a supply unit, a first transfer unit, a second transfer unit, and a gas chamber. In example embodiments, the supply unit may include a plurality of compartments and each compartment may have a moving device configured to move contents of the compartment from a first end of the compartment to a second end of the compartment. In example embodiments the first transfer unit may include a second moving device. In example embodiments, the second transfer unit may include a third moving device. In example embodiments the first transfer unit may be configured to receive contents from each compartment of the supply unit and move the contents to the second transfer unit, and the third moving device may be configured to move the contents to the gas chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Naturally Recycled ProteinsInventors: Don Scott Darling, Jonathan Scott Darling
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Patent number: 8875322Abstract: Robotic posture transfer assist devices for assisting a posture transfer of a patient in a bed may include a device body, a stabilizer coupled with the device body and the bed, and at least one robotic arm having a plurality of degrees of freedom, wherein the robotic arm may be coupled with the device body. Robotic posture transfer assist devices may further include an end-effector removably coupled with the robotic arm, a controller module that provides a control signal to the robotic arm to control a movement of the robotic arm about the plurality of degrees of freedom, and a user input device that provides a command signal to the controller module to command the movement of the robotic arm, wherein the control signal provided by the controller module corresponds with the command signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Ota, Masaru Ryumae, Keiichi Sato, Shin Sano, Srinidhi Kaushik
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Publication number: 20140317843Abstract: A patient lift device comprises a mobile frame and a pliable sheet or support for supporting or manipulating a patient. A pair of spaced apart elongated rollers is operatively connected to opposite sides of the sheet. By rotating the rollers, the sheet with the patient lying thereon can be raised or lowered, or by selectively rotating one or both rollers, the patient can be turned or manipulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventor: Willis E. Martin
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Publication number: 20140289961Abstract: A lift apparatus has a frame with open sides and a web assembly slidably retained along the sides which extends from one end of the frame to the other. While the web assembly is retracted, the frame moves to pass around a mobility-impaired individual and rest against the surface supporting the individual. The web assembly is then extended to move underneath or behind the individual, providing lifting support. The frame is configurable for orientations ranging continuously between horizontal and upright sitting. The web assembly has an upper web contacting the individual, a lower web contacting the support surface, a strength layer carrying the individual's weight, and a roller nose bar assembly which is pulled to extend the web assembly. A hand-held power tool can drive the web assembly, adjustment of inclinations of the back and leg sections of the frame, and vertical motion of the lift arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Richard A. Patterson, Roy M. Patterson
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Patent number: 8789219Abstract: A lift apparatus has a frame with open sides and a web assembly slidably retained along the sides which extends from one end of the frame to the other. While the web assembly is retracted, the frame moves to pass around a mobility-impaired individual and rest against the surface supporting the individual. The web assembly is then extended to move underneath or behind the individual, providing lifting support. The frame is configurable for orientations ranging continuously between horizontal and upright sitting. The web assembly has an upper web contacting the individual, a lower web contacting the support surface, a strength layer carrying the individual's weight, and a roller nose bar assembly which is pulled to extend the web assembly. A hand-held power tool can drive the web assembly, adjustment of inclinations of the back and leg sections of the frame, and vertical motion of the lift arm.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventors: Richard A. Patterson, Roy M. Patterson
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Patent number: 8726431Abstract: A patient repositioning system to move and fix a patient body and/or a limb of a patient body in any sequence of multiple operations with positive body or limb support at any angle of rotation or repositioning.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Inventors: David Sverdlik, Alla Sverdlik
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Patent number: 8710950Abstract: A wireless control system includes a device for sending a wireless signal, a receiver for receiving the wireless signal, and circuitry for processing the wireless signal. The circuitry includes a learn mode in which a device is associated with the control signal to the exclusion of commands from other devices not associated with the circuitry. The device transmits a wireless signal redundantly over a plurality of frequencies. The control system may chooses a signal frequency and receiver combination to maintain a quality signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: David P. Lubbers, Matthew C. Visca, Brian Hoffman, James L. Walke, Robert M. Zerhusen, James K. Findlay
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Patent number: 8661580Abstract: A patient positioning device provided to position, protect and secure a patient on a support surface for transfer to another support surface or for preparation for surgery. The positioning device includes a sheet with a first and second flexible substrate coupled to the sheet's top surface. The first and second flexible substrates may be padded. These substrates are capable of wrapping around an adjacent arm of the patient creating a wrapped engagement. This wrapped engagement may pad, protect, secure and elevate the arms from injury caused by pressure imparted thereon during surgery or transport. This positioning device may be lifted or slid from one support surface to another. Optionally, a third and fourth flexible substrate capable of wrapping around an adjacent arm of the patient creating a second wrapped engagement may be used for additional securing. Optionally, an inflatable support may be used with the device to aid when sliding or translating the device 10 with the patient thereon.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: BCG Medical, LLCInventor: Brandon Cuongquoc Giap
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Patent number: 8578530Abstract: A bed and chair with commode for a patient is disclosed. The bed and chair with commode includes a rectangular main frame, which stands on at least four legs, four frames fitted on the main frame, patient's body over it when patient is lifted up off the bed, side guards being fixed on both sides of main frame for supporting the straps or nets over it and for avoiding the patient from falling down a lifting means for lifting the body of patient over the straps or nets, and a commode pan or pot being fitted under the middle frame with the help of hinge and linkage arrangement. The sliding back of the bed moves upwards and downwards by a mechanism when the back support frame is raised to chair position or lowered to bed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd.Inventor: Bhaskar Vitthal Patwardhan
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Patent number: 8499379Abstract: Robotic posture transfer assist devices for assisting a posture transfer of a patient in a bed may include a device body, a stabilizer coupled with the device body and the bed, and at least one robotic arm having a plurality of degrees of freedom, wherein the robotic arm may be coupled with the device body. Robotic posture transfer assist devices may further include an end-effector removably coupled with the robotic arm, a controller module that provides a control signal to the robotic arm to control a movement of the robotic arm about the plurality of degrees of freedom, and a user input device that provides a command signal to the controller module to command the movement of the robotic arm, wherein the control signal provided by the controller module corresponds with the command signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Ota, Masaru Ryumae, Keiichi Sato, Shin Sano, Srinidhi Kaushik
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Patent number: 8468623Abstract: A lift apparatus has a frame with open sides and a web assembly slidably retained along the sides which extends from one end of the frame to the other. While the web assembly is retracted, the frame moves to pass around a mobility-impaired individual and rest against the surface supporting the individual. The web assembly is then extended to move underneath or behind the individual, providing lifting support. The frame is configurable for orientations ranging continuously between horizontal and upright sitting. The web assembly has an upper web contacting the individual, a lower web contacting the support surface, a strength layer carrying the individual's weight, and a roller nose bar assembly which is pulled to extend the web assembly. A hand-held power tool can drive the web assembly, adjustment of inclinations of the back and leg sections of the frame, and vertical motion of the lift arm.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventors: Richard A. Patterson, Roy M. Patterson
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Publication number: 20130117929Abstract: A multi-functional patient transfer device for transferring mobility-impaired patients is disclosed. The multi-functional patient transfer device may include a lift cart and one or more lift components. The lift components may attach to the lift cart and/or other lift components. The lift components may include frontal bars, a tabletop, a central arm, lifting forks, a hoist, a knee blocker, footrests, a transfer chair, detachable handles, and/or safety cushions. The device may include one or more patient interfaces. The patient interfaces may attach to the lift cart and/or one or more lifting components. The patient interfaces may include slings, chairs, straps, harnesses, and/or transfer sheets. The patient interfaces may include foldable panels. The patient interfaces may include a buttock/link support. Methods of the present invention may include frontal transfers, lateral seated transfers, lateral bed transfers, and sit-to-stand transitions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: TECHNIMOTION, LLCInventors: Frederic Palay, William E. Burak, JR.
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Patent number: 8336133Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention comprises a multi-functional patient transfer device for transferring mobility-impaired patients. In one embodiment, the multi-functional patient transfer device includes a lift cart and one or more lift components. The lift components may attach to the lift cart and/or other lift components. The lift components may include frontal bars, a tabletop, a central arm, lifting forks, a hoist, a knee blocker, footrests, a transfer chair, detachable handles, and/or safety cushions. Embodiments of the present invention may include one or more patient interfaces. The patient interfaces may attach to the lift cart and/or one or more lifting components. The patient interfaces may include slings, chairs, straps, harnesses, and/or transfer sheets. In one embodiment, the patient interfaces may include foldable panels. In one embodiment, the patient interfaces may include a buttock/link support.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Technimotion, LLCInventors: Frederic Palay, William E. Burak, Jr.
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Patent number: 8156582Abstract: A patient repositioning system includes a drive unit, which is adapted for mounting to a head end of a patient support, and a clamp assembly. The clamp assembly is mounted to a headboard, which releasably mounts to the drive unit. The clamp assembly is mounted in the headboard in a stowed position and is configured for deployment from the headboard for coupling to a panel on the patient support. The drive unit includes a housing and a winding assembly supported in and enclosed by the housing. The winding assembly includes at least one tether, which is adapted to couple to the clamp assembly when the headboard is mounted to the drive unit and when the clamp assembly is deployed from the headboard. The tether is further optionally adapted to decouple from the clamp assembly when the clamp assembly is moved to its stowed position in the headboard.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Dennis Rupar, John Walwood, Graham Weeks, Jeffrey L. Lewandowski, Cory P. Herbst, Jeffrey M. Gorton, Joseph E. Mroz, Martin Stryker
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Publication number: 20110302712Abstract: A lift apparatus has a frame with open sides and a web assembly slidably retained along the sides which extends from one end of the frame to the other. While the web assembly is retracted, the frame moves to pass around a mobility-impaired individual and rest against the surface supporting the individual. The web assembly is then extended to move underneath or behind the individual, providing lifting support. The frame is configurable for orientations ranging continuously between horizontal and upright sitting. The web assembly has an upper web contacting the individual, a lower web contacting the support surface, a strength layer carrying the individual's weight, and a roller nose bar assembly which is pulled to extend the web assembly. A hand-held power tool can drive the web assembly, adjustment of inclinations of the back and leg sections of the frame, and vertical motion of the lift arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Inventors: Richard A. Patterson, Roy M. Patterson
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Publication number: 20110296609Abstract: A patient positioning device provided to position, protect and secure a patient on a support surface for transfer to another support surface or for preparation for surgery. The positioning device includes a sheet with a first and second flexible substrate coupled to the sheet's top surface. The first and second flexible substrates may be padded. These substrates are capable of wrapping around an adjacent arm of the patient creating a wrapped engagement. This wrapped engagement may pad, protect, secure and elevate the arms from injury caused by pressure imparted thereon during surgery or transport. This positioning device may be lifted or slid from one support surface to another. Optionally, a third and fourth flexible substrate capable of wrapping around an adjacent arm of the patient creating a second wrapped engagement may be used for additional securing. Optionally, an inflatable support may be used with the device to aid when sliding or translating the device 10 with the patient thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: BCG MEDICAL, LLCInventor: Brandon Cuongquoc Giap
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Patent number: 8024824Abstract: The present disclosure provides for individuals who may otherwise have trouble lifting themselves from the floor after a fall. Using the teachings of the present disclosure, such individuals may autonomously regain their footing, without the necessity of calling paramedics or others for help. An individual may crawl onto the seat of the device and then, using either a handcrank or an electric motor, lift himself to a sitting/standing position.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Inventor: Karl Westermann
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Patent number: 7895688Abstract: A system and procedure for preventing and enhancing healing of Decubiti ulcers on patients, comprising the steps of placing the patient on a web adapted to support the patient, the web having a patient contacting portion and a non-patient contacting portion, the web having an opening through the web, positioned so that the opening surrounds the ulcer and prevents contact of the web with the ulcer, and using a web support system adapted to support the web by attachment only to the non-patient contacting portion, to solely support the web with a patient on it. The procedure may also include a step wherein a rocking device is used that acts through the web support system to selectively tilt the web and thereby to tilt the patient on the patient contact portion of the web, so that the pressure between the patient and the web is cyclically altered.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Inventors: Jay Ronald Rowes, Malcolm C. Winsor, David A. Zlotek
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Publication number: 20100064432Abstract: A support member for use in a patient lifting device is described. The support member includes an improved lift strap having an inner core and an outer plastic layer that can be easily and effectively cleaned with standard disinfectant. The lift strap is secured to a patient lifting device with a spool assembly that guides the lift strap and a belt clamp assembly that compresses the lift strap and holds it into place. In the preferred embodiment, the support member is used in an electric ceiling- or floor-mounted patient lifting device. The preferred lifting device is composed of a track component attached to a winch assembly. The winch assembly has an electric motor that raises and lowers the lift strap by means of a spool assembly and belt clamp assembly. The belt clamp assembly attaches to a sling that supports the patient while he or she is displaced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Noel DUQUETTE, Samuel Andrew GIBNEY, Stephen Van NOORTWYK, Ivan CLARK
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Publication number: 20090307841Abstract: Apparatus for turning a patient including a mobile support (11) having an overhanging portion defining a pair of spaced locations, a roller (32, 34) mounted at each location such that the rollers (32, 34) extend generally parallel to each other, the rollers (32, 34) together being for supporting a dependent sling (48) therebetween, and means for rotating the rollers (32, 34) whereby the sling (48) can be moved laterally relative to the patient to turn the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2005Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Allan Richard James, Joyce Irene James
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Publication number: 20090265854Abstract: This invention provides a bed for a patient including a patient lifting means; and a length of moveable sheet material, wherein a first portion of the sheet material is aligned below the patient support, and the sheet material is moveable such that the portion is no longer aligned below the patient and is replaced with a second portion of the sheet material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2006Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventor: Kenneth Lindsay Pagden
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Patent number: 7591030Abstract: A retractor assembly for engaging a sheet on which a patient is disposed includes a transverse member and a pair of tethers coupled to the transverse member and extending from the transverse member for coupling to a winding assembly. A pair of sheet clamps are mounted to the transverse member, which are spaced apart along the longitudinal axis of the transverse member in a fixed spaced relationship for engaging a sheet at two points spaced along the longitudinal axis. The transverse member maintains the sheet clamps in their fixed spaced relationship whereby the sheet clamps resist inward migration toward each other when being used to handle a patient on a sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Martin W. Stryker, Jeffrey L. Lewandowski, James T. Thwaites, Richard J. Bartow, Scott Smieja, David P. Marcusen
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Patent number: 7562403Abstract: A hospital bed apparatus includes a supporting frame, a lifting mechanism, and a horizontally moving mechanism; the lifting mechanism includes two horizontal rods on two sides of a hospital bed, and a sheet is disposed between and connected to the horizontal rods; either one of the horizontal rods can be lifted so as to turn and reposition the patient on the sheet; the horizontally moving mechanism includes linearly displaceable transverse rods, and connecting rods pivoted to the transverse rods and the lifting mechanism; the sheet and the horizontal rods of the lifting mechanism will be moved outside of the hospital bed when the horizontally moving mechanism is actuated after the sheet have been lifted off the hospital bed together with the horizontal rods; thus, the patient can be shifted to another hospital bed.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Southern Taiwan University of TechnologyInventors: Ching-Hua Wei, Ting-Chun Tung, Zhi-Hao Shi, Whai-Shen Chen, Shen-Yuan Lin
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Publication number: 20090158524Abstract: A patient transfer device has four casters and two counter-rotating steering wheels. The steering wheels provide a turning path whose center of curvature lies along a transverse centerline of the device. A foot pedal selectively lifts the steering wheels off the floor or brakes them. Another foot pedal at a back end of the device can lock the casters at the front end in a straight direction. The transfer table of the device may be inclined either longitudinally or transversely, and has an upper table whose edge rollers retract to introduce slack in the upper belt so that an air mattress can be inflated. The upper belt selectively disengages from the lower belt using movable, pneumatically-actuated pinch rollers. The outer surface of the upper belt is rough while the outer surface of the lower belt is smooth. The belts are constructed of a material which includes an antimicrobial agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Richard A. Patterson, Ralph M. Smucker
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Patent number: 7506387Abstract: A method for transferring a patient from a first surface to a second surface includes providing a winch having a drive system and two reels operatively coupled to the drive system. Two straps are attached to each of the reels. Two wedge cushions are provided for pushing the patient in the direction of the winch from the first surface to the second surface. The wedge cushions have a cover, an insert and an attachment mechanism for attaching them to the straps. The wedge cushions are thinner at the attachment mechanism end. The first of the two straps is passed beneath the patient and is attached to a first wedge cushion. The second of the two straps is passed beneath the patient and is attached to another wedge cushion. The reels are rotated, thereby pulling the two straps until each of the wedge cushions wedge firmly beneath the patient. Nest, the reels are rotated together, thereby pulling the two straps until the patient is transferred from the first surface to the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Winco, Inc.Inventors: Emil A. Scordato, J. Michael Doust, Scott Hadley
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Patent number: 7487558Abstract: An end panel for a patient support apparatus such as a hospital bed has a frame, a housing covering the frame, a roller mounted on the frame which rotates relative to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: James R. Risk, Jr., David W. Williams, Matthew C. Visca, Peter M. Wukusick, James K. Findlay, Robert M. Zerhusen
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Patent number: 7480949Abstract: A device for use with a base of a patient support system. The device has a patient supporting member attached to the base and a sheet engaged by a roller so that the sheet may be located under a patient and moved, thereby moving the patient from one location to another. The roller is supported by a bearing member and, in accordance with the subject invention, the bearing member does not need to be removed from the base, but may be pivoted to an engaged position for engaging and supporting the roller and may be pivoted to a stowed position for storage within the base when not in use.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2006Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Barton Medical CorporationInventor: E. Glynn Bloomquist
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Patent number: 7467426Abstract: A body support for providing a beneficial effect has a frame and a first and a second plurality of flexible parallel bands, which are interdigitated. A primary shaft rotatably mounted in a frame can tighten and slacken the first plurality of bands. This can be done by having the shaft wind and unwind the first plurality of bands or by appropriately positioning a camshaft or the like at one edge of the body support surface to adjustably hold each of the first plurality of bands there. In the latter case the shaft provides a plurality of support locations at the first edge of the support surface that are moved, in order to alternately tighten and slacken the first plurality of bands. Other disclosed apparatus and methods can tighten and slacken the second plurality of bands as well.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Inventors: Robert G. Jarmon, Nicholas A. Jarmon
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Patent number: 7424756Abstract: A device for lifting a person, comprising a pair of cups (1, 2) for gripping a person by applying pressure force on opposite sides of the person's thorax (12) and moving means for moving the cups towards each other. The cups (1, 2) are tiltably mounted on the device, each cup (1, 2) having a tilt axis (A, B) which in use extends in a substantially horizontal direction along one of the opposite sides of the person's thorax (12). Each cup (1, 2) has a contact surface for contacting one of the opposite sides of the person's thorax (12), at least a part of which is located behind the tilt axis (A,B) with respect to the person's thorax.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2004Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Handi-Move International N.V.Inventor: René Van Raemdonck
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Patent number: 7340784Abstract: A patient transfer device includes a base assembly movable in forward and lateral directions. A power train is mounted within the base assembly, and is connected to a clamping and strap assembly. A power and switching system is in electrical communication with the power train. A retractor bar carries one or more clamping devices that are releasably attachable to a sheet. The clamping devices include a clamp handle pivotally connected to a clamp base and a clamp arm eccentrically pivotally connected to the clamp handle. The clamping and strap assembly is supported on the base assembly by a vertical adjustment assembly that includes a positioning mechanism for releasably locking the clamping and strap assembly at one of a plurality of vertical positions. An attendant can stand on the base assembly to act as a counterbalance to a patient's weight.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Martin W. Stryker, Jeffrey L. Lewandowski, James T. Thwaites, Richard J. Bartow, Scott Smieja, David P. Marcusen
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Patent number: 7337477Abstract: A patient transfer method and apparatus designed to efficiently move a patient from one surface to another. A set of straps connected at one end to a winch are passed beneath the patient and attached to a padded support rod on the other side of the patient. The winch is used to pull the straps, and hence the padded support rod, thereby pulling the patient from the first surface to the second.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2005Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Stretchair Patient Transfer Systems, Inc.Inventors: Emil A. Scordato, J. Michael Doust, Scott Hadley
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Patent number: 7293303Abstract: The invention described is a device and method for repositioning a patient in a bed. Bedding material positioned underneath the patient is wound by a ratchet system and a crossbeam that allows for the patient to be repositioned when the bedding material is drawn around the crossbeam. The patient is moved without physical contact or being lifted by patient caregivers. In one embodiment, the device allows for the patient to be repositioned by a single operator caregiver. In another embodiment, the device can be quickly removed from the patient's bed.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Inventor: Gregory A. Worrell
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Patent number: 7219377Abstract: Disclosed is a method for using a bedstead board attached to a bed to support a roller of a patient transport system. A recess extends into the bedstead board and is spaced a distance from the side of the board. The recess retains a roller sufficiently to withstand forces acting upon the roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Barton Medical CorporationInventor: Robert L. McMahan
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Patent number: 7111338Abstract: A patient positioning apparatus (30, 330) is provided for use with a patient-support device (20, 320). The patient positioning apparatus (30, 330) is used to pull a sheet (32, 332) on the patient-support device (20, 320) while a patient is lying on the sheet (32, 332) to position the patient in a desired location on the patient-support device (20, 320).Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: John Arnold Faux, Jon C. Tekulve, Troy D. Acton, Gary Allen Vandenbark, Glenn L. Ellis
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Patent number: 7062803Abstract: Disclosed is a bedstead board having at least one recess near a first or a second side. The at least one recess is configured to removably receive a roller of a patient transport system. In use, two bedstead boards are connected to a bed frame. Each of the two bedstead boards includes at least one recess, with the at least two recesses aligning to receive a roller of the patient transport system to be parallel to a longitudinal axis of the bed. Preferably, the at least one recess is tilted from vertical such that the roller will not tend to dislodge from the at least one recess during use.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Barton Medical CorporationInventor: Robert L. McMahan
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Patent number: 7062804Abstract: A patient movement system comprises a rotatable section coupled to a frame that moves in a horizontal plane. A hoist assembly is coupled to the rotatable section and spins relative to the rotatable section. The hoist assembly may be positioned by the rotatable section. The hoist assembly includes a first motor coupled to a first linearly moving pulley by a first linkage. The first linkage includes horizontal and vertical sections of travel, whereby the vertical sections of travel decrease when the horizontal sections of travel increase. The hoist assembly includes a second motor coupled to a second linearly moving pulley by a second linkage. The second linkage includes horizontal and vertical sections of travel, whereby the vertical sections of travel are decrease when the horizontal sections of travel increase. The hoist assembly may include additional pulleys to guides the first and second linkages.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Inventors: Samuel K. Rouse, Amandia K. Rouse
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Patent number: 7013511Abstract: The invention relates to a patient bed having a frame (1) for supporting a mattress (3). To enable the insertion of an X-ray detector (9), it is proposed in accordance with the invention that a tensioning device (5a, 5b) is provided to secure a fabric-like carrier means (4) resting on a mattress (3) and a lifting device (6) is provided for lifting a patient (8) accommodated on the taut carrier means (4) from the mattress (3), so that an X-ray detector (9) can be inserted in a gap (10) formed between the lifted carrier means (4) and the mattress (3).Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Michael Maschke
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Patent number: 6854137Abstract: The present invention is a transfer and transport device and method for moving a patient from a bed to another location within a medical facility. The transport device includes an integral transfer mechanism for transferring a patient from a hospital bed to the device and back.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2003Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Inventor: Daniel T. Johnson
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Patent number: 6834402Abstract: A patient transport apparatus is provided. The patient transport apparatus includes a patient support mover configured to move a patient support relative to the floor and a patient transfer apparatus configured to move a patient from a first position on the patient support to a second position on the patient support.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Thomas W. Hanson, Ronald S. Henderson
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Publication number: 20040231050Abstract: The invention described is a device and method for repositioning a patient in a bed. Bedding material positioned underneath the patient is wound by a ratchet system and a crossbeam that allows for the patient to be repositioned when the bedding material is drawn around the crossbeam. The patient is moved without physical contact or being lifted by patient caregivers. In one embodiment, the device allows for the patient to be repositioned by a single operator caregiver. In another embodiment, the device can be quickly removed from the patient's bed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventor: Gregory A. Worrell
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Patent number: 6772456Abstract: This invention relates to portable devices and their methods of use, which assist in moving patients positioned on beds, gurneys, or other such patient supports. More particularly, the invention relates to portable devices and their methods of use, which enable a single health care worker to perform a patient pullup, roll the patient to a desired position, reposition the patient, or laterally transfer the patient to another patient support.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2001Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventor: Thomas W. Votel
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Patent number: 6701546Abstract: A wheelchair convertible into a gurney that includes a main frame, a rear frame and a supplemental rear frame pivotally secured to the rear frame. The main frame includes a back portion pivotally secured to a seat portion which is pivotally secured to a leg portion. The rear frame is pivotally secured to the back portion. A guide arrangement is provided that coacts with the supplemental rear frame and the main frame whereby the main frame is in a first position. The back portion, seat portion and leg portion are arranged so that they are in different planes and when the main frame is in a second position, the back portion, seat portion and leg portion are arranged so that they are in a gurney position.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Barton Medical CorporationInventor: Graham L. Hodgetts
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Patent number: 6698041Abstract: A transfer apparatus for moving a patient from a first support to a second support includes an upper platform, a lower conveyor and an actuator configured to be coupled to the lower conveyor to drive the lower conveyor. The lower conveyor is movable such that movement of the lower conveyor to move the apparatus from the second support to the first support moves the patient from the first support onto the upper platform.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2001Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: The OR Group, Inc.Inventors: Kip P. VanSteenburg, George T. Wong
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Patent number: 6591435Abstract: A patient transport system for transporting a patient from a bed to a stretcher or vice versa, using a bed sheet and a conveyor attached to the bed or the stretcher. A first end of the sheet is removably attached to the conveyor and a second end of the sheet is free. The sheet is adapted to be positioned onto the patient supporting member of the bed or stretcher. The conveyor includes a roller received by bearings. The roller can be removably received by the bearings. The roller can also include a telescopic arrangement so that its length can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Inventor: Graham L. Hodgetts