Patent ID: 9463128
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: A61G,G08B

Claim Text:
1. A lift apparatus for lifting a patient comprising: a sling bar adapted to have a sling secured thereto, the apparatus including a controller and a status indicator responsive to the controller for indicating the status of at least two parameters associated with the lift apparatus, the apparatus also including an interpretive indicator for indicating which of the parameters the status indicator is referring to, wherein the status indicator indicates a satisfactory status and also indicates at least one of an undesirable status and an unsatisfactory status and wherein a height status is indicated by the status indicator as set forth below: where h1, h2 and h3 are threshold heights relative to a reference height such that h3>h2>h1 and h1 is greater than the reference height and where HF is height of the sling bar relative to the reference height.