法律状态/事件：
未缴年费 | 质押 | 权利转移
IPC分类号：
A47C27/10 | A61G7/00 | A61G7/015 | A61G7/05 | A61G7/053 | A61G7/057 | A61G7/10 | G01G19/44
国民经济行业分类号：
C2190 | C2049 | C2043 | C2042
当前申请(专利权)人：
HUNTLEIGH TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
原始申请(专利权)人：
KINETIC CONCEPTS, INC.
当前申请(专利权)人地址：
ARJOHUNTLEIGH HOUSE, HOUGHTON HALL BUSINESS PARK, HOUGHTON REGIS, LU5 5XF, DUNSTABLE, BEDFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM
发明人：
VRZALIK, JOHN H. | BARTLETT, ALAN L. | PHILLIPS, BRUCE | STENBERG, MICHAEL | STROH, GLENN C. | WOEHR, DANIEL A. | DIMITRIU, DAN G. | GONZALEZ, FELIPE
摘要：
A bariatric treatment system providing a comprehensive array of therapeutic services for the morbidly obese patient is disclosed. The treatment system generally comprises a stable bed frame upon which is mounted a low air loss therapeutic mattress system. Integrated hardware and software controls provide such therapies as pulsation, percussion, rotation, cardiac chair and Trendelenburg. Means are disclosed whereby the bariatric patient may safely and comfortably enter and exit the bed with relative ease. The bed is adaptable for transport within a hospital, including such features as a TRANSPORT MODE wherein the bed's lateral axis is minimized and battery backup to maintain necessary therapies during patient transport. A plurality of control means are disclosed for simplification of caregiver workload and ease of patient utilization.
技术问题语段：
The treatment of morbidly obese, or bariatric, patients presents many challenges heretofore not adequately addressed.|These patients, typically weighing in excess of 500 pounds and often in the range of 500 to 800 pounds, have previously been denied many of the available therapeutic modalities due primarily to the difficulties associated with effecting such treatments in a treatment system capable of withstanding these patients' great weights.|The emphasis of previous systems has been to confront the obstacles concomitant handling of the bariatric patient; this focus has resulted in a void of developments for providing therapeutic care for the bariatric patient.|While it is well known in the art of design and manufacture of patient treatment beds to provide a mechanism for holding an X-ray cassette behind the patient's head and chest areas, prior art designs have not improved the means for insertion and removal of the X-ray cassette.|Because prior art embodiments of bariatric beds do not provide mechanisms for keeping the sides of an X-ray cassette parallel with the sides of the holding assembly, the caregiver has been forced to have access to both sides of the treatment bed in order to manually guide the cassette into place.|Bariatric patients are often not able to hop or step down even short distances without injury or loss of balance.|Although the excessive width of bariatric patient treatment beds has long been recognized as an undesirable characteristic for transport, prior art embodiments of bariatric patient treatment beds have failed to provide an economical, reliable and easy-to-manufacture side rail design with multiple functions and abilities for use on a bariatric bed such as that described herein.|This process is very rapid, the only delay being one clock cycle and propagation time.
权利要求：
We claim:
1. A patient support system comprising: a frame adapted to support a patient weighing up to 800 pounds; said frame including an articulated mattress support for supporting a mattress, said support including at least first, second, and third articulatable sections positioned to support a leg region, a seat region, and a head region, respectively of the mattress supported on said support; raise-and-lower mechanism for generally raising and lowering the entire mattress support relative to a floor-engaging portion of the frame; an articulation mechanism for articulating the mattress support from a relatively horizontal, lying position to a seated position; means for laterally rotating said head region, such that said head region rotates with respect to said leg region; means for controlling all controllable functions of said patient support system; means for acquiring critical parameters associated with patient health; a foot board assembly dependently attached to said leg region support.