PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936618
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["005", "604000"]

Abstract:
A hospital bed provides improved handling of non-ambulatory patients and others who cannot easily be moved, such as to a hospital room toilet. The hospital bed includes a flexible mattress and a belt attached to the flexible mattress ends. The hospital bed frame has a pallet for supporting the flexible mattress and a chute attached to the frame beneath the pallet that receives the end of the flexible mattress. Multiple rollers direct the flexible mattress and belt. A motor supplies rotational force to one of the rollers and one of the rollers also provides for bending the flexible mattress to enter the chute, so that the end of the flexible mattress is guided underneath the pallet. A system includes the hospital bed with a detachable sanitary station. The sanitary station includes a toilet top and unites with the bed to deliver the patient to a position atop the toilet.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of supporting and moving a patient, comprising:\n supporting the patient on a flexible mattress; supporting the flexible mattress on a frame having a pallet that supports the flexible mattress and having legs extending to the floor; moving the flexible mattress with a belt having a first end attached to the flexible mattress at a foot of the flexible mattress and second end attached to a head of the flexible mattress, by activating a motor that rotates one of a plurality of rollers that guide the belt and the flexible mattress; bending the flexible mattress over another one of the plurality of rollers positioned at a first end of the frame corresponding to a foot of the hospital bed; and passing the foot of the flexible mattress within a chute attached to the frame and disposed beneath the pallet, wherein a first portion of the chute extends downward away from the pallet toward the floor in a first direction of an acute angle with respect to a plane of the pallet to receive the foot of the flexible mattress, whereby the passing directs the flexible mattress toward the floor, and wherein a second portion of the chute extends in a second direction parallel to the plane of the pallet and receives the foot of the flexible mattress from the first portion of the chute and, whereby the passing aligns the foot of the flexible mattress in a direction parallel to the pallet above the floor, whereby the foot of the flexible mattress is guided underneath the pallet and the head of the flexible mattress is moved toward the first end of the frame to transport the patient to the foot of the hospital bed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30435
- Patent Class: 5.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15791598', '15791624', '13744189', '11318689', '13014140']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7904497095051485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5625936013817695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7676640986928105
- Mean Citation Score: 287.07278800000006
- Max Citation Score: 465.3468
- Similarity Product: 399.50680320403575

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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