121 |
Wheeled Object of the Type Adapted to be Operated by a Walking Person |
US11720357 |
2005-11-29 |
US20090001740A1 |
2009-01-01 |
Henrik Nohr Kofoed; Mogens Ilsted Bech; Kristina Nielsen; Jesper Moe Jensen; Amir Shahar; Lars Thogersen; Christian Ruegaard Hansen |
A wheeled object or vehicle, such as a hospital bed (10) comprises a main chassis or frame (12) supported by a plurality of supporting wheels or rollers (11), which define the vertices of a polygonal supporting surface (21). The bed, which is usually moved by a walking person, is provided with at least one motor driven driving device (15), including at least one driving wheel or roller (18), positioned within said polygonal supporting surface. The driving device is rotatable about a substantially vertical axis (14) in relation in the chassis or frame so as to change the angular position of the driving wheel (18) in relation to the chassis or frame. Biasing means, such as a compression spring or a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder (22, 34) is provided for biasing the driving device (15) in a direction away from the main chassis or frame (12) and towards the supporting surface (21). The biasing force is controlled such that the driving device (15) id kept in close non-skidding contact with the ground or floor surface (21) without lifting the supporting wheels (11) out or contact with the supporting surface. |
122 |
Device for the Assisted Loading of Stretcher |
US12096657 |
2006-12-15 |
US20090000834A1 |
2009-01-01 |
Enrico Carletti; Alessandro Lapini |
A device for the assisted loading of a stretcher (2) provided with a chassis (3), comprises at least one driving wheel (4) cinematically connected to a driving member (5) fed by feeding means (6) and controlled by control means (7) to activate the at least one driving wheel (4) at least during the loading of the stretcher into the ambulance. |
123 |
Method and apparatus for transporting a patient support |
US10903481 |
2004-08-02 |
US07412311B2 |
2008-08-12 |
Falk Georgi; Peter Hopfe; Michael Graef; Thomas Reichardt; Carolin Brand |
A transport device for transporting a patient support panel or a medical appliance includes a drive unit, which includes a drive motor, an undercarriage having wheels rotatably mounted on it for driving the undercarriage, and a sensor unit for receiving a signal indicating the position of the transport device with respect to a predetermined path line while the transport device moves along the predetermined path line. One or more of the wheels are rotatably drivable by the drive unit, and one or more wheels are steerable. |
124 |
Pneumatically powered lift ambulance cot |
US10982483 |
2004-11-05 |
US07409734B2 |
2008-08-12 |
William H. Benedict; Robert C. Chinn; Warren D. Sutton, Sr. |
A collapsible pneumatically operated ambulance cot having a support frame, a wheeled base, a support mechanism disposed therebetween, and a lift mechanism for pneumatically moving the upper frame relative to the lower frame is disclosed. The lift mechanism permits a single attendant to raise the cot from a lowered position to a raised position, and an infinite number of positions therebetween, and to raise the wheeled base relative to the support frame to situate the cot onto an elevated surface such as the transport deck of an ambulance. |
125 |
Ambulance cot and hydraulic elevating mechanism therefor |
US11172434 |
2005-06-30 |
US07398571B2 |
2008-07-15 |
Chad Souke; Dennis A. Reed; Christopher B. Way |
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. |
126 |
Apparatus for altering the body temperature of a patient |
US10948918 |
2004-09-24 |
US07377935B2 |
2008-05-27 |
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. |
127 |
Integrated multi-purpose deployment field system |
US11705396 |
2007-02-12 |
US20080030003A1 |
2008-02-07 |
Charles Darling |
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. |
128 |
System for medical emergency care and monitoring of a patient |
US10386282 |
2003-03-11 |
US07264396B2 |
2007-09-04 |
Peter Jährling |
A system for medical emergency care and monitoring of a patient includes as its first component a patient holding apparatus with a fixed base and a table mounted on it, and the table protrudes past the base on the head end with a radio transparent first region and on the foot end with a radio transparent second region. There is also a CT scanner which is movable on the floor along a guide element in such a way that the second region of the table can be brought, by moving the CT scanner, into the patient opening of the CT scanner. For taking x-ray images in the first region of the table, there is an x-ray unit. Another component pertains to a guided patient board that is ridable on the table in the longitudinal direction. |
129 |
Docking station for patient support |
US11318689 |
2005-12-27 |
US07243386B2 |
2007-07-17 |
Dennis J. Gallant; Dennis M. Lanci; John P. Biondo |
According to the present disclosure, a transfer top adapted to carry a patient is transferable between a mobile base and a docking station in a hospital room. Thus, instead of transferring a patient between a stretcher and a hospital bed, the entire transfer top with the patient thereon is transferred between the mobile base and the docking station. |
130 |
MULTIPLE LEVEL ROLL-IN COT |
US11556796 |
2006-11-06 |
US20070056104A1 |
2007-03-15 |
Richard Ferneau; William Benedict; Eugene Dyne; Elroy Bourgraf; Irvin Pollock |
A multiple level elevating cot adapted to be rolled into emergency vehicles, the cot having a wheeled undercarriage supporting a cot frame having a leading end and a trailing end, The leading end comprises a drop frame adapted to be positionable in extended, middle, collapsed, and lengthened positions. Leg members interconnect the cot frame and the undercarriage. A latching device is adapted to selectively secure the leg members in a plurality of elevational positions. The cot further comprises a pair of sidearm supports provided to the cot frame between the leading end and the trailing end, each of the sidearm supports being adapted to be positionable in vertically-up, vertically-down, substantially horizontal, and folded positions relative to the cot frame. |
131 |
Mission adaptable portable cart/utility table arrangement |
US11545328 |
2006-10-10 |
US20070029760A1 |
2007-02-08 |
Charles Darling |
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. |
132 |
Stretcher apparatus |
US11474603 |
2006-06-26 |
US20070000057A1 |
2007-01-04 |
Philip Ward |
A trailing wheel assembly is moved such that its wheels 164 come into contact with the ground prior to loading the stretcher into an ambulance. Forward loading wheels 50 support the front of the stretcher on the ambulance floor 160. The undercarriage 12 is then raised and the stretcher is moved into the ambulance by the operator pushing, without the operator having to support any part of the stretcher. Just before the stretcher is fully home, the trailing wheel assembly 162 is moved into a storage position by pivoting the struts 166 and then pushing the struts into the rear of the stretcher to conceal the trailing wheel section between opposed side members of the upper frame of the stretcher. |
133 |
Apparatus for Altering the Body Temperature of a Patient |
US11466966 |
2006-08-24 |
US20060282142A1 |
2006-12-14 |
Robert Schock; Marc Cote |
Apparatus for altering the body temperature of a patient comprises an enclosure defining an interior space for receiving at least a portion of a patient's body therein. The enclosure is constructed for transferring 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. A drain for draining the heat transfer liquid from the interior space of the enclosure is at least partially disposed beneath the enclosure. A hold-open inhibits occlusion of the drain. A weir in fluid communication with the drain maintains the heat transfer liquid at a predetermined height in the enclosure. A control system is preprogrammed with a target temperature for the body temperature of the patient. |
134 |
Stretcher |
US10547812 |
2004-02-27 |
US20060207027A1 |
2006-09-21 |
Sigeyuki Matunaga; Noriyuki Matunaga; Kazuyuki Goto |
A highly safe stretcher that can be moved up and down smoother and where are stopper mechanism is more reliable, so that the stretcher can be correctly handled by ambulance crews. 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). The stretcher (100) is characterized in that rollers (36) are provided between supporting portions of the lock mechanism (31) and of the rear leg-assisting frames (18) and a center rail (14). The rollers (36) smoothen the slide motion between the supporting potions and the center rail (14). |
135 |
Apparatus for altering the body temperature of a patient |
US10948918 |
2004-09-24 |
US20060069418A1 |
2006-03-30 |
Robert 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. |
136 |
Transportable medical apparatus |
US10652671 |
2003-08-29 |
US06976696B2 |
2005-12-20 |
Jason M. O'Krangley; David M. Kruithoff |
An undercarriage for transporting a stretcher includes a support base, which is adapted for supporting a stretcher, a first pair of legs pivotally mounted to the support base, and a second pair of legs pivotally and slidably mounted to the support base. The first pair of legs is independently pivotal about the support base from the second pair of legs. In addition, a journaled member is provided at the distal ends of each leg. The undercarriage also includes a control system that is adapted to selectively pivot the first pair of legs to a stowed position and to selectively pivot the second pair of legs to a stowed position. The control system is further adapted to selectively lengthen or shorten the legs to adjust the height of the support base. |
137 |
Device for preventing emergency vehicle bumper interference with cot wheel deployment |
US10850144 |
2004-05-20 |
US06908133B1 |
2005-06-21 |
Gary Morton; Steve Knipfel; Jason Kneen |
A safety stop member which consists of an L-shaped member, plural fasteners for fastening a first leg of the L to the floor surface, a second leg of the L being oriented in an upstanding relation relative to the first leg and to the floor surface and configured so that the upstanding second leg will interfere with and engage a safety bar on an emergency cot only when the safety bar is positioned adjacent a juncture between the first and second legs. An outwardly facing side of the second leg is oriented generally flush with an edge of the access opening so that when the emergency cot extends outwardly from the access opening in the cargo area and the safety bar engages the second leg, the base on the emergency cot will be sufficiently spaced outwardly of an outermost facing surface of a step bumper on the emergency vehicle to facilitate an unobstructed deployment of the base to the deployed position thereof. |
138 |
Lightweight mobile lift-assisted patient transport device |
US10849500 |
2004-05-20 |
US20050125900A1 |
2005-06-16 |
Joseph Bishop; Michael Catoe; David Algie; Ian Algie |
A lift-assisted device having a patient support structure, a base, and an undercarriage. The device can be powered by a pneumatic cylinder and a compressed gas source. The undercarriage can be a scissors linkage having at least one first member being slidably connected to the patient support structure an upper end of the first member and pivotally connected to the base at a lower end of the first member, and at least one second scissors linkage member, the second scissors linkage member being pivotally connected to the first scissors linkage member. An upper end of the second member is pivotally connected to the patient support structure, and a lower end of the second member is pivotally connected to the base. The pneumatic cylinder is arranged for moving the upper end of the first member and the lower end of the second member with respect to the patient support structure. |
139 |
Pneumatically powered lift ambulance cot |
US10982483 |
2004-11-05 |
US20050120480A1 |
2005-06-09 |
William Benedict; Robert Chinn; Warren Sutton |
A collapsible pneumatically operated ambulance cot having a support frame, a wheeled base, a support mechanism disposed therebetween, and a lift mechanism for pneumatically moving the upper frame relative to the lower frame is disclosed. The lift mechanism permits a single attendant to raise the cot from a lowered position to a raised position, and an infinite number of positions therebetween, and to raise the wheeled base relative to the support frame to situate the cot onto an elevated surface such as the transport deck of an ambulance. |
140 |
Isolation chamber |
US10315484 |
2002-12-09 |
US20040111007A1 |
2004-06-10 |
Deano
Perlatti |
An isolation chamber for providing containment for a contaminated patient includes a flexible enclosure that is configurable to receive a contaminated patient therein. The enclosure includes a first side, a second side, a top that is hingedly pivotable about a top of the first side, a bottom, a first end, and a second end. The top is maintained spaced apart from the bottom such that the top is maintained out of physical contact with a contaminated patient received in the enclosure. A plurality of attachment devices are disposed on at least one of the first and second sides or the first and second ends. The plurality of attachment devices are configured to attach to one of the first and second sides or the first and second ends to support members of a stretcher. |