181 |
Patient support and/or transport means and magnetic resonance system |
US12825413 |
2010-06-29 |
US20110004093A1 |
2011-01-06 |
Bjarne Erik Roscher |
A patient support and/or transport device is proposed. The patient support and/or transport device comprises a receptacle in particular for a push-in patient support plate. At least one metal detection device is provided on the receptacle adjacent to the patient support plate when the patient support plate is pushed in. |
182 |
Stretcher |
US10547812 |
2004-02-27 |
US07856685B2 |
2010-12-28 |
Sigeyuki Matunaga; Noriyuki Matunaga; Kazuyuki Goto |
A stretcher (100) has casters on front legs (15) and rear legs (17), an upper frame (11) on the upper part of which a stretcher body is placed, constant load springs (28,29) in a slide mechanism for vertically varying the position of the upper frame (11), and mechanical locking devices (32,33) for stopping the upper frame at desired positions. The stretcher (100) further has a lock mechanism (31) for locking front leg-assisting frames (16), for supporting the front legs, so as not to slide, and has rear leg-assisting frames (18) for supporting the front legs (15), the front leg-assisting frames (16), and the rear legs (17). |
183 |
Mission adaptable portable cart/utility table arrangement |
US11980986 |
2007-10-31 |
US07823906B2 |
2010-11-02 |
Charles W. Darling, III |
A mission adaptable multi-purpose, collapsible portable cart/utility table, for use in emergency response and disaster situations, camping, hunting and other outdoors activities, which carries medical rescue carts, canoes, small boats, game, or hauled cargo by hand. It transports one or more cargo bins over long, rough terrain and each bin can include one or more cabinet drawers therein, wherein upon tilting of a cargo bin from a horizontal transport position to a substantially vertical position the cargo bin serves as a supply cabinet. Each bin is openable to expose the supply drawers for use. |
184 |
Integrated multi-purpose deployment field system |
US11705396 |
2007-02-12 |
US07775530B2 |
2010-08-17 |
Charles W. Darling, III |
An integrated multi-purpose deployment field system enables a user to build a plurality of field pieces of equipment for field use in recreation, rescue, medicine, military operations, disaster relief and non-motorized cargo hauling. The system includes assembling the field equipment from a plurality of interchangeable T-shaped load support components. Each load support component has a generally horizontal load support member which is configured to support a particular type of load in the field, and a generally vertically extending support strut which extends from a midsection of the horizontal load support member. A load support attachment, such as a wheel axle or a cross brace, engages with each horizontal load support member, and joins the horizontal support members so that the T-shaped load support components, vertical struts, and load support attachments form a load bearing structure when assembled. |
185 |
Wholly portable, modular, expandable, medical critical care field installation system |
US11396158 |
2006-03-31 |
US07766365B2 |
2010-08-03 |
Charles W. Darling, III |
A mission adaptable multi-purpose, collapsible portable cart/utility table, for use in emergency response and disaster situations, camping, hunting and other outdoors activities, which carries medical rescue carts, canoes, small boats, game, or hauled cargo by hand. The portable cart/utility table can be converted to a various uses and the portable cart/utility table can be folded down and transported within a wheeled bin, backpack, hand carried bag, canoe or boat. It transports injured persons or cargo over long, rough terrain and it can broken down into a carrying position, by hand or by back. The objects being carried can be held by clamps, by fasteners, or through the use of insertions with longitudinally extending channels. An optional pivotable kickstand and/or tie rods can stabilize the cart in a position of rest. The portable cart/utility table can also be the basis of a reconfigurable, modular, expandable medical critical care point of need field installation system deployable by land, sea, and air to reach very remote and rugged regions. |
186 |
Incubator Transporter Interface Assembly |
US12356633 |
2009-01-21 |
US20100185045A1 |
2010-07-22 |
Robert C. Chinn |
An incubator transporter interface assembly for releasably securing an incubator to a transporter is provided. The interface assembly includes equipment mounts that pivot together between an engaging position and a disengaging position so as to engage and disengage, respectively, the incubator to and from a secured state with the interface assembly. |
187 |
Transport Apparatus |
US12484345 |
2009-06-15 |
US20090307844A1 |
2009-12-17 |
David W. Hornbach; Darrell L. Metz; John M. Johnson |
An apparatus comprises a frame and a transport assembly supporting the frame. The transport assembly is configured to selectively move relative to the frame between a transport position and a brake position. A portion of the frame frictionally engages a portion of the transport assembly in the brake position to affect a brake application that resists the transportation of the frame. The portion of the frame is disengaged from the portion of the transport assembly in the transport position to allow for transportation of the frame. |
188 |
Roll-in cot |
US12126073 |
2008-05-23 |
US07631373B2 |
2009-12-15 |
Gavin Lee Broadley; Alan Raymond Cambridge |
A roll-in cot having a patient support attached to a wheeled transporter wherein the wheeled transporter comprises leading and trailing collapsible legs having respective proximal ends pivotally connected to a frame and distal ends including wheels wherein at least the leading or the trailing collapsible legs are operable from a locked condition by a release assembly wherein the release assembly comprises a safety and a leg release wherein one of said safety and said leg release comprises a linkage, wherein in an activated condition the linkage prevents the collapse of the collapsible legs, said linkage is connected to a touch bar disposed in front of said collapsible legs whereby engagement of the touch bar against a platform deactivates the linkage and enables the collapsible legs to be collapsed on release of the other of said safety and said leg release. |
189 |
Method of unloading an ambulance cot into an ambulance |
US12156853 |
2008-06-05 |
US07540547B2 |
2009-06-02 |
Clifford E. Lambarth; Christopher B. Way |
An ambulance cot loading and unloading device which utilizes an elongate guide track configured for mounting to a floor surface of a cargo area on the ambulance. A trolley is supported for movement relative to the guide track and has an elongate boom. The ambulance cot has a powered collapsible and extendable base and a patient support deck mounted on the base. A connection mechanism is provided on the trolley and the ambulance cot which is configured to interconnect and securely hold the ambulance cot on the trolley. |
190 |
Ambulance cot with pinch safety feature |
US12002958 |
2007-12-19 |
US07540047B2 |
2009-06-02 |
Clifford E. Lambarth |
An ambulance cot is disclosed and the ambulance cot has, if desired, a wheel supported base and a litter raisable and lowerable by a powered elevating mechanism oriented between the base and the litter. The ambulance cot also has wireless communication capability to facilitate communication between the ambulance cot and a loading system on an ambulance as well as facilitating wireless troubleshooting via a handheld wireless unit. The ambulance cot also has a longitudinally extendable head section. The ambulance cot also has several accessories, such as an accessory hook mounted to the underside of the fowler, and a collapsible pouch accessory fastened to the retractable head section and the litter frame as well as a pinch safety feature. |
191 |
Method of loading an ambulance cot into an ambulance |
US12156852 |
2008-06-05 |
US07520551B2 |
2009-04-21 |
Clifford E. Lambarth; Christopher B. Way |
An ambulance cot loading and unloading device which utilizes an elongate guide track configured for mounting to a floor surface of a cargo area on the ambulance. A trolley is supported for movement relative to the guide track and has an elongate boom. The ambulance cot has a powered collapsible and extendable base and a patient support deck mounted on the base. A connection mechanism is provided on the trolley and the ambulance cot which is configured to interconnect and securely hold the ambulance cot on the trolley. |
192 |
Patient single surface system |
US11566040 |
2006-12-01 |
US07490377B2 |
2009-02-17 |
Scott M. Ahlman |
This invention is directed towards a patient single surface system, PS3, which is a next generation system solution for patient accommodation, diagnosis, treatment, transfer and transport. PS3 provides a single surface for the patient to remain on from the trauma site through diagnosis, treatment and convalescence. Needs addressed by the PS3 system include improved patient treatment through reduction in time to treatment, reduced or eliminated unnecessary patient movement and injury, as well as improved comfort throughout treatment and convalescence. In addition, the PS3 system solves significant economic considerations. |
193 |
Self-Locking Swivel Castor Wheels for Roll-In Cot |
US11578010 |
2005-03-14 |
US20090000034A1 |
2009-01-01 |
Dean E. Myers; Eugene Van Dyne; William H. Benedict; Gavin Broadley; Alan Cambridge |
A roll-in cot (1) having a patient support attached to a wheeled transporter wherein the wheeled transporter comprises leading (3) and trailing (4) collapsible legs having respective proximal ends pivotally connected to a frame (2) and distal ends including swivel castor wheels (18A, 18B) wherein at least the swivel castors (18A) of the leading collapsible legs (3) are operable in either a swivel or lock mode, and wherein the swivel mode is only operable by a castor release mechanism (22) while the cot (1) is in a fully upright position. |
194 |
APPARATUS FOR ALTERING THE BODY TEMPERATURE OF A PATIENT |
US12115269 |
2008-05-05 |
US20080306577A1 |
2008-12-11 |
Robert B. Schock; Marc Cote |
Apparatus for altering the body temperature of a patient comprises a cover for covering at least a portion of a patient's body and a compliant support adapted to underlie and generally conform to the shape of the portion of the patient's body to define a well adjacent to the patient's body portion for accumulating heat transfer liquid. The cover and compliant support cooperatively define an enclosure for receiving the portion of the patient's body and are constructed to conduct a heat transfer liquid into direct contact with the portion of the patient's body received in the enclosure to promote heat transfer between the patient's body and the heat transfer liquid. |
195 |
Multipurpose clamps for utility table/cart/stretcher |
US11396157 |
2006-03-31 |
US07461857B2 |
2008-12-09 |
Charles W. Darling, III |
A mission adaptable multi-purpose, collapsible portable cart/utility table, for use in emergency response and disaster situations, camping, hunting and other outdoors activities, which carries medical rescue carts, canoes, small boats, game, or hauled cargo by hand. The portable cart/utility table can be converted to a various uses and the portable cart/utility table can be folded down and transported within a wheeled bin, backpack, hand carried bag, canoe or boat. It transports injured persons or cargo over long, rough terrain and it can broken down into a carrying position, by hand or by back. The objects being carried can be held by clamps, by fasteners, or through the use of insertions with longitudinally extending channels. The portable cart/utility table can also be the basis of a transportable mobile field hospital deployable by land, sea, and air to reach very remote and rugged regions. |
196 |
Method of unloading an ambulance cot into an ambulance |
US12156853 |
2008-06-05 |
US20080290679A1 |
2008-11-27 |
Clifford E. Lambarth; Christopher B. Way |
An ambulance cot loading and unloading device which utilizes an elongate guide track configured for mounting to a floor surface of a cargo area on the ambulance. A trolley is supported for movement relative to the guide track and has an elongate boom. The ambulance cot has a powered collapsible and extendable base and a patient support deck mounted on the base. A connection mechanism is provided on the trolley and the ambulance cot which is configured to interconnect and securely hold the ambulance cot on the trolley. |
197 |
Ambulance cot with retractable head section and control system therefor |
US12156776 |
2008-06-03 |
US20080276372A1 |
2008-11-13 |
Clifford E. Lambarth |
An ambulance cot is disclosed and the ambulance cot having a base frame configured for support on a surface, a litter frame configured for supporting thereon a patient and an elevating mechanism interconnecting the base frame and the litter frame and configured to interconnect the litter frame and the base frame in order to facilitate movement of the base frame and the litter frame toward and away from each other. A control mechanism is provided on the cot which is configured to facilitate the movement of the base frame and the litter frame toward each other and at differing speeds predicated on at least one of whether the base frame is supported on the surface and the litter frame is supported by an external support separate from the elevating mechanism. |
198 |
Trolley For Transporting a Patient and a Patient Handling System |
US12092425 |
2006-10-24 |
US20080276370A1 |
2008-11-13 |
Arthur Van Es; Ravindra Bhat |
A trolley for transporting a lying patient comprising a transferable table-top (8) for carrying the lying patient, which table-top (8) can be taken over by a stationary table-base. The trolley has free space below a main portion of the table-top (8), so that the table-top (8) can be located above the stationary table-base by moving the trolley towards the stationary table-base. The trolley comprises two end structures (1,2) each provided with rollers (6) for rolling over the floor, and an intermediate structure (3,4) connecting the two end structures (1,2). A main part of the intermediate structure (3,4) is located at a level near the table-top (8), so that the intermediate structure (3,4) can be moved over said stationary table-base. |
199 |
ROLL-IN COT |
US12126073 |
2008-05-23 |
US20080258486A1 |
2008-10-23 |
Gavin Lee Broadley; Alan Raymond Cambridge |
A roll-in cot having a patient support attached to a wheeled transporter wherein the wheeled transporter comprises leading and trailing collapsible legs having respective proximal ends pivotally connected to a frame and distal ends including wheels wherein at least the leading or the trailing collapsible legs are operable from a locked condition by a release assembly wherein the release assembly comprises a safety and a leg release wherein one of said safety and said leg release comprises a linkage, wherein in an activated condition the linkage prevents the collapse of the collapsible legs, said linkage is connected to a touch bar disposed in front of said collapsible legs whereby engagement of the touch bar against a platform deactivates the linkage and enables the collapsible legs to be collapsed on release of the other of said safety and said leg release. |
200 |
Patient Positioning Device |
US11661510 |
2005-08-23 |
US20080256709A1 |
2008-10-23 |
Herbert Weiler |
A patient positioning device is provided. The patient positioning device includes a patient positioning top and a u-shaped undercarriage that includes first and second parts that can be displaced relative to each other. An undercarriage length is adjustable with the first and second parts. |