Source: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20200038271
Timestamp: 2020-07-12 03:56:49
Document Index: 642333681

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 119', 'Application No. 61', 'art 950', 'art 950', 'art 950', 'art 950', 'art 950', 'art 950', 'art 950']

US Patent Application for PATIENT BED HAVING FOOTBOARD PEDAL APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY Patent Application (Application #20200038271 issued February 6, 2020) - Justia Patents Search
Justia Patents US Patent Application for PATIENT BED HAVING FOOTBOARD PEDAL APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY Patent Application (Application #20200038271)
The present application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/990,285, filed May 25, 2018, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. XXXXXXXX, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/257,058, filed Sep. 6, 2016, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 10,004,654, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/640,182, filed Mar. 6, 2015, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 9,463,126, which claims the benefit, under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e), of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/951,236, which was filed Mar. 11, 2014, and each of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
In some embodiments, a control panel housing may be pivotable relative to the siderail between a raised position and a lowered position. The control panel housing may move upwardly out of a recess in the siderail when moving from the lowered position to the raised position. The patient bed may include a mattress and the control panel housing may carry caregiver controls that may face away from the mattress when the control panel housing is in the raised position and the control-panel housing may have patient controls that may be provided on an edge of the control panel housing.
The shelf may be movable relative to the siderail between the use position and a storage position. The inductive charger may be situated beneath an upper surface of the shelf For example, the inductive charger may be situated in an interior region of the shelf. The inductive charger may be supported by an upper surface of the shelf. For example, the inductive charger may be embedded in a recess in the upper surface of the shelf. In such embodiments, an upper surface of the inductive charger and the upper surface of a remainder of shelf around the recess may be substantially coplanar. The electrical devices that the inductive charger may be operable to inductively recharge include one or more of the following: a smart phone, a tablet computer, and a laptop computer.
A mattress control box may comprises the equipment added to the bed although the RFID tags may be used in connection with any desired equipment that may be added to a bed. In some embodiments, each of the RFID tags may include a connector, such as a universal serial bus (USB) connector. Each of the RFID tags may include a cover that may be removable from the remainder of the respective RF1D tag to expose the USB connector.
As shown in FIG. 12, the bed frame 108 includes a longitudinally extending rail 118 that is supported by a pair of laterally extending tubes 120 at a distance from a longitudinally extending upper frame member 122 of bed 100. A slider 124 is mounted on rail 118 and a pair of links 126 interconnects the slider 124 and the associated foot rail 102. When slider 124 is located near a foot end 128 of rail 118, it is locked in place. When the patient pulls lever 104, slider124 is unlocked from the rail 124 to permit the patient to manually move the associated foot rail 102, links 126, and slider 124 as a unit along rail 118 toward the head end of bed 116. When slider 118 reaches a head end 130 of rail 118, it once again locks in place on rail 118. A second release lever 132 is provided on each foot rail 102 for use by the patient to unlock slider 118 from its locked condition adjacent head end 130 of rail 118 so that the foot rail 102, links 126 and slider 124 can be moved back to their original position blocking patient egress from the bed 100.
It will be appreciated that arm 388 is coupled to clevis 386 for pivoting movement about a substantially horizontal axis to permit the foot rail 372, arm 392, and arm 388 to pivot as a unit between the lowered position, shown in FIG. 57, and the raised position, shown in FIG. 56. Furthermore, clevis 386 is coupled to hub 384 for pivoting movement about a substantially vertical axis. As shown in FIG. 60, hub 384 includes first and second hub pieces 384a, 384b and clevis 386 includes first and second clevis pieces 386a, 386b. A bushing 406 provides the pivot joint between clevis 386 and hub 384. Arm 388 is mounted to clevis 386 between clevis pieces 386a, 386b by a main pivot pin 408. A T-handle 410 threads through an opening 412 in clevis piece 386b and is used to tighten against the lower end of arm 388 to retain arm 388 in its raised or lowered position. A T-handle 414 threads through another opening 416 in clevis piece 386b and is used to tighten against an upper surface of hub 384 to retain clevis 386 and the components of lift system 374 supported thereby in place relative to hub 384. Thus, when T-handle 414 is loosened, the patient supported by sling 394 beneath foot rail 372 can be swung out from bed 370 to a position above another piece of patent support equipment such as a stretcher or wheelchair.
Referring now to FIG. 91, a patient bed 760 includes a U-shaped grab bar 762 arching between mounts 764 that are situated adjacent head end corner regions of a mattress 766. A control unit 768 extends over a patient from a central region of the U-shaped grab bar 762. The control unit 768 has caregiver controls 770 on a sidewall 772 thereof The grab bar 762 includes hand grip areas 774 with bumps 776 adjacent each side of the control unit 768.
Still referring to FIG. 210, bed 951 includes circuitry 2102 that receives wireless signals from cart 950 such as via receiver 2104. In some embodiments, circuitry 966 of cart 950 and circuitry 2102 of bed 951 is configured for bidirectional wireless communication with each other. In such embodiments, transceivers 967, 2104 are provided, respectively. However, it is within the scope of this disclosure for cart 950 and bed 951 to each have separate receivers and transmitters rather than transceivers 967, 2104. Circuitry 2102 of bed 951 is also coupled to user inputs 2106, motors 2108, a scale system 2110, a pneumatic system 2112, alarms 2114, an AC power plug 2116 and an input/output (I/0) port or module 2118. Port 2118 coupled either via a wired connection or a wireless connection to a network 2120 of a healthcare facility so that data from bed 951 can be communicated to computer devices (e.g., nurse call computers, EMR computers, ADT computers, locating and tracking computers, etc.) of network 2120. In some embodiments, data from cart 950 is communicated to network 2120 via circuitry 2102 of bed 951. Alternatively or additionally, data is communicated to network 2120 from cart 950 without involving bed 951 in the communication path, such as by transmissions from transmitter 967 to a wireless access point of network 2120, for example. In some embodiments, transmissions are sent from devices of network 2120 to cart 950 and/or bed 951.
It should be appreciated that the block diagrams of FIG. 210 for cart 950 and bed 951 are rudimentary in nature but, nonetheless, are illustrative of the relevant aspects disclosed herein. Examples of the circuitry and related components of some suitable hospital beds 950 can be found in “Service Manual, Progressa™ Bed From Hill-Rom,” © 2013, Hill-Rom Services, Inc.; “Service Manual, TotalCare® Bed System From Hill-Rom,” © 2008, Hill-Rom Services, Inc.; and “Service Manual, VersaCare® Bed From Hill-Rom,” © 2008, Hill-Rom Services, Inc.; each of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein to the extent not inconsistent with the present disclosure which shall control as to any inconsistencies.
Referring now to FIG. 152, a patient bed 1250 has a footboard 1252 that is pivoted upwardly in the direction of the arrow 1254 into a position overlying a patient's legs so that the footboard 1252 serves as an overbed table for the bed 1250. An arm 1256 supports footboard 1252 for pivoting movement relative to an upper frame 1258 of bed 1250. In the illustrative embodiment, a lower end of arm 1256 is situated between a mattress retaining wall 1260 of upper frame 1258 and a mattress 1262 of bed 1250. As shown in FIG. 153, the footboard 1252 is moved back to its normal position in the direction of arrow 1264 to serve as a traditional footboard 1252. As shown in FIG. 154, the footboard1252 has a shallow recess 1266 formed therein to help retain items on the footboard 1252 when it is being used as an overbed table. As shown in FIG. 155, a caregiver is using a control panel 1268 that is included as part of the footboard 1252.
Referring now to FIGS. 164 -167, a patient bed 1320 has a footboard 1322 that includes a plurality of segments 1324 that are telescopically coupled together. The footboard 1322 has a raised position in which the telescopic segments 1324 are in an expanded configuration as shown in FIGS. 164 and 166. The footboard 1322 also has a collapsed or lowered position having the telescopic segments 1324 retracted into an uppermost segment 1324 as shown in FIGS. 165 and 167. The lowermost segment 1324 has a pair of posts 1326 extending downwardly therefrom for receipt in sockets 1328 of a foot end frame member 1329 of bed 1320 as shown in FIGS. 166 and 167.
Referring now to FIG. 175, a patient bed 1370 has an IV pole 1372 with a contact sensor (discussed below) that provides a signal to a bed controller (not shown) indicating that the IV pole 1372 is contacting an obstacle so that the bed controller can signal actuators (not shown) of the bed 1372 to take corrective action. In FIG. 176, a bed 1370′ having an IV pole 1372′ without any contact sensor has the pole 1372′ being driven into a head wall unit 1373 due to tilting of an upper frame 1374 of the bed 1370′. In the bed 1370 having IV pole 1372 with a contact sensor, when IV pole 1372 contacts head wall unit 1372 during tilting of upper frame 1372, the contact sensor signals the bed controller to tilt upper frame 1374 in an opposite direction, indicated by arrow 1376 in FIG. 175, so that IV pole 1372 moves out of contact with head wall unit 1372. Similar bed control occurs if 1V pole 1372 encounters other obstacles.
Referring now to FIG. 183, a bed 1426, similar to the beds 720 of FIG. 87, has the capability to project a set of icons 1428 onto the floor near a foot end 1427 of the bed 1426 and to project a message1429 near a side of the bed 1426. The icons 1428 indicate statuses of monitored features of the bed and the message advises the patient to call a nurse if the patient desires to get out of the bed 1426 in the illustrative example. In some embodiments, the icons 1428 are illuminated green to indicate a satisfactory status of an associated monitored bed feature and are illuminated a color other than green (e.g., amber or red) to indicate an unsatisfactory status of the associated monitored condition. The icons are not projected onto the floor if the associated feature of the bed is not being monitored.
21. A patient bed comprising
a frame configured to support a patient, the frame having a head end and a foot end,
a footboard extending upwardly relative to the frame adjacent the foot end of the frame, and
a therapy apparatus coupled to the footboard and movable relative to the footboard between a storage position and a use position, the therapy apparatus remaining coupled to the footboard when in the storage position and when in use position, and the therapy apparatus being configured to be used by the patient for physical therapy when in the use position.
22. The patient bed of claim 21, wherein the therapy apparatus is configured to be engaged by feet of the patient when in the use position.
23. The patient bed of claim 21, wherein the therapy apparatus is configured to provide therapy to legs of the patient when in use.
24. The patient bed of claim 21, wherein the therapy apparatus comprises a pedal mechanism.
25. The patient bed of claim 24, wherein the pedal mechanism includes a pair of pedals.
26. The patient bed of claim 25, wherein the pedal mechanism includes a support arm assembly that supports the pair of pedals.
27. The patient bed of claim 26, wherein the pair of pedals includes a first pedal supported adjacent a first side of the support arm assembly and a second pedal supported adjacent a second side of the support arm assembly.
28. The patient bed of claim 26, wherein the footboard includes a recess that receives the support arm assembly when the support arm assembly is in a collapsed configuration.
29. The patient bed of claim 26, wherein the footboard includes a recess that receives the pair of pedals and the support arm assembly when the support arm assembly is in a collapsed configuration.
30. The patient bed of claim 25, wherein the pair of pedals are configured as bicycle pedals that are cycled around by the patient's feet during physical therapy.
31. The patient bed of claim 25, wherein the footboard includes a recess that receives the pair of pedals when the therapy apparatus is in the storage position.
32. The patient bed of claim 24, wherein the frame is movable between a first position supporting the patient in a lying down position and a second position supporting the patient in a sitting up position, and wherein the pedal mechanism is usable by the patient for physical therapy when the frame is in the first position and when the frame is in the second position.
33. The patient bed of claim 32, wherein the footboard is oriented generally vertically when the frame is in the first position and wherein the footboard is oriented generally horizontally when the frame is in the second position.
34. The patient bed of claim 32, wherein the second position of the frame corresponds to a chair position of the patient bed.
35. The patient bed of claim 21, wherein the footboard includes a recess that receives the therapy apparatus when the therapy apparatus is in the storage position.
36. The patient bed of claim 35, wherein the therapy apparatus is deployed out of the recess when the therapy apparatus is in the use position.
37. The patient bed of claim 21, wherein the frame is movable between a first position supporting the patient in a lying down position and a second position supporting the patient in a sitting up position, and wherein the therapy apparatus is usable by the patient for physical therapy when the frame is in the first position and when the frame is in the second position.
38. The patient bed of claim 37, wherein the footboard is oriented generally vertically when the frame is in the first position and wherein the footboard is oriented generally horizontally when the frame is in the second position.
39. The patient bed of claim 37, wherein the second position of the frame corresponds to a chair position of the patient bed.
40. The patient bed of claim 21, further comprising a mattress supported by the frame and wherein a portion of the therapy apparatus overlies a foot end region of the mattress when the therapy apparatus is in the use position.
Inventors: Robert M. Zerhusen (Batesville, IN), Richard H. Heimbrock (Cincinnati, OH), Mark Chiacchira (Lawrenceburg, IN), Nicholas A. Mann (Cincinnati, OH), David C. Newkirk (Lawrenceburg, IN)
Application Number: 16/599,682
International Classification: A61G 7/018 (20060101); H02J 7/00 (20060101); G06F 3/0484 (20060101); A61G 7/10 (20060101); A61G 7/05 (20060101); A61G 7/015 (20060101); A61G 7/012 (20060101); A61G 7/005 (20060101); A61G 7/00 (20060101); G08C 17/02 (20060101); A61G 12/00 (20060101); A61G 7/08 (20060101); A61G 7/053 (20060101);