| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
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| 181 | Method and System for Controlling Evaporative and Heat Withdrawal Performance of an Occupant Support Surface | US12836606 | 2010-07-15 | US20120012277A1 | 2012-01-19 | Charles A. Lachenbruch |
| A method for controlling performance of an MCM capable support surface having a flowpath for guiding a stream of air along at least a portion of the surface, comprises specifying a desired evaporative rate greater than an evaporative rate achievable with unconditioned ambient air, chilling the unconditioned ambient air to a temperature at least as low as that required to achieve 100% relative humidity, thereby demoisturizing the air, and supplying the chilled, demoisturized air to the flowpath. The method may also include the step of heating the chilled, demoisturized air prior to step of supplying it to the flowpath. A system for carrying out the method includes a microclimate management (MCM) capable support surface 22, a chiller 60 for cooling air to be delivered to the MCM capable surface, a user interface 42 for receiving instructions concerning desired microclimate management performance, and a controller 50, responsive to the instructions, for operating the chiller. | ||||||
| 182 | CONTROL SCHEMES AND FEATURES FOR CLIMATE-CONTROLLED BEDS | US12775347 | 2010-05-06 | US20110115635A1 | 2011-05-19 | Dusko Petrovski; Barry Steele; Michael Brykalski; John Terech; David Marquette |
| A climate-conditioned bed includes an upper portion having at least a first climate zone and at least one fluid module associated with such a first climate zone. The fluid module comprises a fluid transfer device for selectively moving a fluid and a thermoelectric device for selectively heating or cooling a fluid. The bed additionally includes one or more control modules configured to regulate the operation of the fluid module, at least one input device configured to allow an occupant to select a setting or mode associated with the first climate zone and at least a first temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature associated with the first climate zone of the thermally-conditioned bed. In some embodiments, the fluid module is operatively connected to the control module. The control module is configured to adjust at least one operational parameter of the fluid module based on, at least in part, the setting or mode selected by an occupant using the at least one input device, and the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor. | ||||||
| 183 | MICROCLIMATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | US12899059 | 2010-10-06 | US20110092890A1 | 2011-04-21 | Martin W. Stryker; Santoshkumar Balakrishnan |
| A microclimate management sheet, for placing against a person's body, includes a flexible generally fluid impermeable first layer, a flexible generally fluid impermeable second layer with a gas permeable region for facing a patient's body. The first layer is joined with the second layer in a manner to form a chamber between the first layer and the second layer. An inlet operative to be in fluid communication with a supply of gas and in fluid communication with the chamber is provided for delivering a gas to the chamber, with the gas permeable region for directing the gas the patient's body. | ||||||
| 184 | Patient support | US11781309 | 2007-07-23 | US07657956B2 | 2010-02-09 | Richard B. Stacy; Daniel Stevens; Karen Janoff; Thomas Uzzie; Jonathan H. Mueller; John Alan Bobay; Dennis Flessate; Reza Hakamiun; Charles A. Lachenbruch; Sohrab Soltani; Gregory Branson; Kenith W. Chambers; Rebecca Anne Ginther; Stephen L. Douglas; Eric R. Meyer; Christopher R. O'Keefe; Bradley T. Wilson; Darrell Borgman; Rachel Hopkins King |
| This disclosure described a patient support having an air permeable layer, a plurality of inflatable bladders, a pressure-sensing assembly and a controller. In one embodiment, a combination of transverse bladders and vertically oriented can-shaped bladders is provided. In one embodiment, one or more angle sensors are provided in articulatable sections of the patient support. | ||||||
| 185 | Cooling Medical Device | US12235339 | 2008-09-22 | US20090132013A1 | 2009-05-21 | Michael Amalfi |
| A medical device embodied as a stretcher, body bag, or mattress is disclosed. The device includes water and a selectively breakable package. The selectively breakable package includes a chemical, such as ammonium nitrate, which when mixed with water will cause an endothermic reaction. In use, the package is broken in order to cause the water to cool. The cooled water absorbs heat from an injured person placed on the device, thereby minimizing inflammation that may occur from injuries sustained by the person. | ||||||
| 186 | PULMONARY MATTRESS | US12122808 | 2008-05-19 | US20090013470A1 | 2009-01-15 | Sandy M. Richards; Christopher R. O'Keefe; Bradley T. Wilson; Kenith W. Chambers; Mayur Yermaneni; Gregory W. Branson; Michael Z. Sleva; Karen M. Gove; Andrew F. Skinner; Stephen R. Schulte; Todd P. O'Neal; Rachel Hopkins King; Teresa M. Mirabella; Paula M. Cooper |
| A patient support surface including a cover defining an interior region, a layer of three dimensional material, located at the interior region, and an air circulation device disposed adjacent the layer of three dimensional material. The patient support surface includes at least one of a percussion device and a vibration device, located at the interior region. | ||||||
| 187 | System and method for registering the temperature of a person | US10544351 | 2004-02-02 | US07388507B2 | 2008-06-17 | Gaby Bader |
| A system and method for registering the temperature of a person, wherein a textile product, intended to abut against the person during use, is provided with a number of temperature sensors and a registration unit for registering measurement values from the sensors. The system may be used for monitoring the state of a person, wherein a predetermined threshold condition is monitored, and an alarm signal is emitted to activate an alarm unit when the condition is fulfilled. The system may also be used for controlling physical characteristics of a foundation, such as temperature and/or hardness, based on the state of a person being present thereon. | ||||||
| 188 | Pediatric emergency transport device | US11974832 | 2007-10-16 | US20080086817A1 | 2008-04-17 | Stefanie Zucker; Charles Bergh; Suzanne Hantke; Robert Ciappenelli |
| A device for emergency transport of pediatric patients that safely and efficiently transports a pediatric patient to a medical facility is described. The device facilitates a variety of rapid attachment mechanisms to support emergency medical personnel's ongoing need to quickly transport pediatric patients despite continuously, significantly changing specifications for conventional stretchers. Additionally, the device provides for safer, more stable transport of infants and more effective treatment of children with severe temperature imbalances. | ||||||
| 189 | Body Support Apparatus Having Automatic Pressure Control and Related Methods | US11568511 | 2005-05-02 | US20080005843A1 | 2008-01-10 | David Lokhorst; Colin Clarke |
| A body support such as a cushion, mattress, chair or the like has at least one inflatable air chamber. A pressure sensor senses interface pressures at different locations on a surface of the air chamber. Indicators derived from the interface pressures indicate the onset of a trend toward bottoming out. A controller controls air pressure within the air chamber based at least in part on values of the indicators. The controller may be implemented as a state machine. | ||||||
| 190 | Air Conditioning Cushion for Wheelchair | US11559710 | 2006-11-14 | US20070294831A1 | 2007-12-27 | Allen R. Siekman; Ballard Hillyer Pritchett; Dan McVicker; Richard Keith Ford |
| A seat cushion for use in a wheel chair includes a foam pad contoured to the anatomy of a user positioned thereon and has an indentation in the middle thereof, which receives and drains incontinence fluid from the user. The foam pad encloses an air channel between the indentation and at least one side of the foam pad. A fan housed inside the pad pushes air through the air channel, into the indentation and onto the user. Alternatively, the seat cushion may house an air conditioner to circulate cooled air to the skin of the user. | ||||||
| 191 | Medical equipment controller | US10430643 | 2003-05-06 | US07010369B2 | 2006-03-07 | Richard L. Borders; Timothy D. Wildman |
| A portable medical equipment controller apparatus including a user input device. A processor is configured to determine if a predetermined distance from a base unit is exceeded, and to signal an alert if the predetermined distance from the base unit is exceeded. | ||||||
| 192 | Pediatric emergency transport device | US11117279 | 2005-04-28 | US20050193491A1 | 2005-09-08 | Stefanie Zucker; Charles Bergh |
| A device for emergency transport of pediatric patients that safely and efficiently transports a pediatric patient to a medical facility is described. The device enables the transport of pediatric trauma patients on a conventional stretcher while still enabling a backboard to be used therewith to immobilize a critically-injured patient. Additionally, the device provides for more comfortable and sanitary transport of a pediatric patient by adding a disposable padded cushion, which is placed on the device prior to placing the child in the device for emergency transport. | ||||||
| 193 | Overlay mattress | US10080126 | 2002-02-22 | US06859967B2 | 2005-03-01 | Samuel W. Harrison; Patrick Quick, Sr.; Ralph W. Baucum, III |
| An overlay mattress has a plurality of internal elevating means, such as inflatable bladders, for raising selected portions of the mattress to achieve a wide range of patient positions. A fluid such as air may be supplied from a conventional surgical room air supply, a compressed canister, or a compressor to inflate the bladders. A fluid distribution system controls the flow of fluid to desired bladders. The overlay mattress may be used in conjunction with conventional surgical tables and mattresses. A thermal control means is also included in the overlay mattress to regulate a patient's body temperature. A pressure shifting means is also included to reduce the risk of bedsore formation. | ||||||
| 194 | Seat back assembly | US10044298 | 2001-10-19 | US06688693B2 | 2004-02-10 | James L. Christofferson; Sharon L. Pratt; Allen B. Killebrew; Bryan J. Griffiths |
| A seat back assembly for connecting a seat back shell to the seat back tubes of a wheelchair comprises a shell, upper and lower shell connectors, and upper and lower side plate portions. The lower shell connector is mounted to a lower portion of the shell. The upper shell connector is mounted to an upper portion of the shell. The upper side plate portion is adapted to be mounted to an upper portion of the seat back tube. The lower side plate portion is adapted to be mounted to a lower portion of the seat back tube at a position substantially co-linear to the posterior superior illiac spine (PSIS) of a user. The lower shell connector and the lower side plate portion are pivotally engageable with one another along a pivot axis. The upper shell connector and the upper side plate portion are attachable relative to one another at discrete locations so as to permit the angular disposition of the shell to be adjusted. | ||||||
| 195 | Medical equipment controller | US10430643 | 2003-05-06 | US20030195644A1 | 2003-10-16 | Richard L. Borders; Timothy D. Wildman |
| A portable medical equipment controller apparatus including a user input device. A processor is configured to determine if a predetermined distance from a base unit is exceeded, and to signal an alert if the predetermined distance from the base unit is exceeded. | ||||||
| 196 | Overlay mattress | US10080126 | 2002-02-22 | US20030159219A1 | 2003-08-28 | Samuel W. Harrison; Patrick Quick; R. W. Baucum |
| An overlay mattress has a plurality of internal elevating means, such as inflatable bladders, for raising selected portions of the mattress to achieve a wide range of patient positions. A fluid such as air may be supplied from a conventional surgical room air supply, a compressed canister, or a compressor to inflate the bladders. A fluid distribution system controls the flow of fluid to desired bladders. The overlay mattress may be used in conjunction with conventional surgical tables and mattresses. A thermal control means is also included in the overlay mattress to regulate a patient's body temperature. A pressure shifting means is also included to reduce the risk of bedsore formation. | ||||||
| 197 | Support surface with phase change material or heat tubes | US10012772 | 2001-12-08 | US20030109908A1 | 2003-06-12 | Charles A. Lachenbruch; Richard I. Barnett |
| A support surface for general skin cooling, or reducing the incidence and promoting the healing of bedsores, includes: (a) at least one thermal layer comprising: a phase change material having a melting point of between about 18 and 32 degrees Centigrade; a gel or viscous fluid carrier in which the phase change material is substantially evenly distributed; and a fluid-impermeable, conformable envelope surrounding the phase change material and the carrier; (b) at least one conformable compression support layer beneath and adjacent to the thermal layer; (c) at least one conformable base support layer beneath and adjacent to the compression layer, the base support layer having a higher indentor load deflection (ILD) than the compression layer. A preferred embodiment, with or without the thermal layer, includes a heat tube layer. Another preferred embodiment includes an envelope containing phase change material in a carrier material, without either of the support layers. | ||||||
| 198 | Medical equipment controller | US10083197 | 2002-02-26 | US06560492B2 | 2003-05-06 | Richard L. Borders |
| A patient support system comprises an articulated frame having a plurality of segments, a frame controller coupled to the frame to move at least one of the segments, a mattress having at least one chamber, a mattress controller coupled to the mattress to control an amount of fluid in the at least one chamber, and a user interface controller configured to send control signals to the frame controller and to the mattress controller. | ||||||
| 199 | Seat back assembly | US10044298 | 2001-10-19 | US20030030318A1 | 2003-02-13 | James L. Christofferson; Sharon L. Pratt; Allen B. Killebrew; Bryan J. Griffiths |
| A seat back assembly for connecting a seat back shell to the seat back tubes of a wheelchair comprises a shell, upper and lower shell connectors, and upper and lower side plate portions. The lower shell connector is mounted to a lower portion of the shell. The upper shell connector is mounted to an upper portion of the shell. The upper side plate portion is adapted to be mounted to an upper portion of the seat back tube. The lower side plate portion is adapted to be mounted to a lower portion of the seat back tube at a position substantially co-linear to the posterior superior illiac spine (PSIS) of a user. The lower shell connector and the lower side plate portion are pivotally engageable with one another along a pivot axis. The upper shell connector and the upper side plate portion are attachable relative to one another at discrete locations so as to permit the angular disposition of the shell to be adjusted. | ||||||
| 200 | Patient support systems with layered fluid support mediums | US09712665 | 2000-11-13 | US06421859B1 | 2002-07-23 | Ronald B. Hicks; John H. Vrzalik |
| A patient support system having multiple patient support layers for reducing and preventing the development of bed sores in bedridden patients. A top patient support surface is provided by an anti-shear cover layer. The anti-shear cover layer being operable to reduce lateral shear forces experienced by a patient moving across the patient support surface. One or more fluid pouches or bladders are provided to form a fluid bladder layer for reducing normal pressures and forces experienced by the patient The fluid bladder layer being releasably or integrally secured to the top surface of an inflatable air mattress. Means are provided operable to secure the anti-shear cover layer and fluid bladder layer in overlapping relation to the inflatable air mattress. Also provided is a means for adjusting the temperature of the fluid contained within the fluid bladder layer. | ||||||
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