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7546653 |
Air mattress
An air mattress includes a mattress envelope having a compartment and comprising a thermal functional layer and an outer layer overlapped thereon and an air cushion including a plurality of...
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7437787 |
Load-cell based hospital bed control
A system for monitoring a patient on a hospital bed includes load cells and a controller for detecting patient movement on, exit from, and impending exit from the hospital bed, including movement...
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7021008 |
Inflatable structure with inflatable interior frame
An inflatable device with an outer inflatable structure, inflatable interior frame, an interior opening and an outer opening. The frame has a plurality of side rods, a center wall, a plurality of...
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6721979 |
Air bed with fluidized bead surface and related methods
A therapeutic treatment bed with features to enhance the care and comfort of burn patients and others subject to extensive recuperative periods. Among the features are patient engaging fluidized...
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6694555 |
Air fluidized bladders for a bed
A mattress for a bed is provided to support a patient. The mattress includes a plurality of air fluidized bladders. Each bladder includes a fluidized zone having fluidizable material positioned...
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6624419 |
Apparatus for sensing and controlling fluidization level
A fluidization level sensor and controller for use in a fluidized patient support surface has a controller coupled to a sensor and a compressor. The patient support surface contains a mass of...
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6574813 |
Air fluidized bed
A pilot operated check valve is configured to be positioned inside a fluid supply tube connected between an air supply manifold and an air zone located on a support surface of abed. The pilot...
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6499166 |
Apparatus for elevation of head and torso in fluidized patient support
An apparatus for elevating the head and torso of a patient confined to a fluidized patient support system. A head cushion assembly, a knee gatch assembly and a control assembly are integrated with...
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6430765 |
Apparatus and method for sensing and controlling a fluidization level
A fluidization level sensor and controller for use in a fluidized patient support surface has a controller coupled to a sensor and a compressor. The patient support surface contains a mass of...
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6351862 |
Mattress replacement having air fluidized sections
A mattress ( 10 ) includes an outer cover ( 12, 18 ) formed from an air impermeable material. The outer cover ( 12, 18 ) is configured to define an interior region and having a top support surface...
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6192537 |
Semi-fluid based body support system
A semi-fluid based body support system using a mass of granular material to support a user has reversible transferring means and fluidizing means to locally control the granular material. The...
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6158070 |
Coverlet for an air bed
A coverlet is disclosed for enclosing an air fluidizable section of a patient support surface. The air fluidizable section includes a diffuser board assembly for supporting a fluidizable medium, a...
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6139512 |
Method and apparatus for water therapy
An apparatus and method of improved water therapy in which a person is buoyantly supported in a reclining or prone position on a top membrane of a enclosure which contains heated water, and air. A...
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6131214 |
Medical table having a number of rollers which collectively define a bed surface and an associated method for moving a patient from a first position to a second position
A medical table includes a base. The medical table also includes a number of rollers, supported by the base, which collectively define a bed surface for supporting a patient, wherein each roller of...
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6016581 |
Semi-fluid mattress
A semi-fluid mattress using a mass of granular material to support a user has reversible transferring means and fluidizing means to locally control the granular material. The reversible...
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5855207 |
Medical table assembly having a restrainment apparatus mounted thereto and an associated method of immobilizing object
A medical table assembly includes a bed frame and a mattress supported by the bed frame. The medical table assembly also includes a restrainment apparatus mounted to the bed frame, wherein the...
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5781943 |
Medical table and method for moving a patient from a first position to a second position
A medical table includes a base. The medical table also includes a number of rollers, supported by the base, which collectively define a bed surface for supporting a patient, wherein each roller of...
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5623736 |
Modular inflatable/air fluidized bed
The invention is a modular inflatable/air fluidized patient bed suitable for in-home use. The bed includes a double walled, molded plastic base formed from two pedestals and a connecting...
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5621934 |
Mattress
The invention relates to a mattress, particularly an air mattress. It comprises a bottom element (1) and a number of elongated, bag-like mattress elements (2), which may be inflated with gas such...
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5564142 |
Air mattress collaboratively cushioned with pulsative and static symbiotic sacs
An air mattress includes a plurality of symbiotic sacs juxtapositionally transversely secured in a mattress envelope, having a plurality of primary and secondary symbiotic sacs alternatively...
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5539943 |
Apparatus and method for percussion of fluidized support surface
A fluidized patient support having a tank with side walls and a bottom holds a mass of fluidizable beads and includes a diffuser board disposed near the tank bottom to define a plenum which...
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5408711 |
Air mattress assembly
An air mattress for preventing bedridden patients' suffering from bed sores and the like is provided. A mattress assembly is provided comprising a matrix member disposed throughout its interior...
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5402542 |
Fluidized patient support with improved temperature control
A fluidized bed includes an air blower, a heater, an air/air heat exchanger with auxiliary fans, and an air/cold water heat exchanger. The fluidized bed includes a remotely disposed portable water...
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5388291 |
Fluidized medical bed equipped with a device for eliminating its soiled granular constituents
The invention relates to a fluidized medical bed. According to the invention, the receptacle (3) of this bed comprises: a lower wall (4); a porous bottom (5) disposed close to the lower wall,...
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5367728 |
Adjustable ventilation mattress
An adjustable ventilation mattress including an inflatable upper filling layer consisted of rows of inflatable plastic tubes arranged in the longitudinal direction, an inflatable lower filling...
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5357641 |
Patient positioners for use on oscillating air support surfaces
An overlay sheet and a related method for positioning a bedridden patient on an oscillating air support system for maximum safety and maximum therapeutic benefit. An overlay sheet which positions...
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5172781 |
Scale for fluidized bed and method for using same
A fluidized bead bed having a scale integrated into the frame of the bed for providing a continuous readout of the weight of a patient supported on the upper surface of the bed. The bed includes a...
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5168591 |
Method for patient elevation above a fluidized surface
A method for patient elevation above a fluidized surface utilizes a web of filter sheet material disposed beneath the patient and between the patient and the main filter sheet that covers the...
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5105487 |
Apparatus for patient elevation above a fluidized surface
An apparatus for patient elevation above a fluidized surface includes a web of filter sheet material disposed beneath the patient and between the patient and the main filter sheet that covers the...
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5036559 |
Method of dual mode patient support
A patient's head, chest and upper torso are supported on a first surface formed by a plurality of inflatable sacks disposed on an articulatable member. The patient's lower torso, buttocks, legs and...
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5029352 |
Dual support surface patient support
A patient support system has a first surface formed by one or more of a choice of structures. A fluidizable surface formed by air fluidizing a mass of fluidizable material is disposed adjacent the...
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5016304 |
Fluidized bed with moisture removing means
A method and device in particular a therapeutic device for abstracting moisture and fluid from one or more bodies such as bedridden patients, whereby use is made of a bed of moisture and fluid...
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5008965 |
Fluidized bead bed
A fluidized patient support apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus utilizes granular material beneath a patient support surface which when fluidized by pressurized gas uniformly distributes the...
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5001794 |
Device for securing detachably filtering sheet to air bed
A device for securing detachably a filtering sheet to an air bed, which includes a bed body, having an upper peripheral edge defining an opening, and a number of fine solid particles contained in...
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4967431 |
Fluidized bed with modular fluidizable portion
A patient support system has a fluidizable surface formed by air fluidizing a mass of fluidizable material. The fluidizable surface preferably is formed by a plurality of fluidizable cells disposed...
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4942635 |
Dual mode patient support system
A patient support system has a fluidizable surface formed by air fluidizing a mass of fluidizable material and a surface formed by a plurality of inflatable sacks disposed on an articulatable...
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4914760 |
Fluidized bed with collapsible side
A patient support system has a fluidizable surface formed by air fluidizing a mass of fluidizable material. The fluidizable material is contained by a member which is at least partially collapsible...
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4879777 |
Fluidized patient support system
An improved fluidizable patient support system including an oval tank, a perforated plate received in the tank atop a plurality of spacers, a diffuser board located atop the perforated plate and...
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4835802 |
Fluidization patient support control system
Disclosed herein is a fluidization patient support system that enables decrease and elimination of the unpleasant and aggravating "pinging" sensation to which patients are presently exposed. The...
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4794659 |
Fluid bed system
A system for fluidizing a plurality of fluid beds is shown. The system is characterized by an air supplying unit for providing all the fluid beds with pressurized air via pressurized-air supplying...
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4768250 |
Fluidized bead bed
A fluidized bead bed includes a mattress having an outer, liquid-impermeable layer to prevent body fluids from passing into a bed tub holding fluidized beads and contaminating the beads. The bed...
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4694521 |
Human body supporting device
A device for supporting a human body includes a mat having an upper layer of porous elastic material with fine particles mixed therein and a lower layer of porous elastic material. Air is blown...
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4686723 |
Semi-fluidized bed
A bed is disclosed, comprising a base having a floor and an upstanding wall extending aroung the periphery of the floor. A body of particulate fluidizable material is contained within the base. The...
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4642825 |
Control apparatus for clinic bed
A control apparatus for a clinic bed so constructed as to make the air pressurized by air pressurizing means upwardly escape through a diffuser board dotted with a number of small openings and...
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4637083 |
Fluidized patient support apparatus
A patient support structure that employs fluid pressure to fluidize granular material for patient support. Fluidizable granular material is received within the structure atop a fluid diffuser...
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4609854 |
Control device for a hospital bed
A sensor is provided in a hospital bed having a bed-mat made of movable particles. This sensor is to detect an excessive bead temperature in the case of a controller malfunction and to control the...
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4599755 |
Bead fluidizing type body supporting device
A bead fluidizing type body supporting device including a vessel enclosing fluidizable beads and an open cell type porous elastic member. Air is injected through the bottom of the vessel to...
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4574785 |
Device for controlling the raising and lowering movement of a fluidized bed
A device for controlling the raising and lowering of a fluidized bed for supporting a human body on a bed of particles which can be made to float and flow by supplying air under pressure thereto. A...
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4498205 |
Medical bed with sheet retaining means
A medical bed employing a fluidized particle media is improved by clamping the sheet thereof between the hand rails and the side flanges of the bed by means of a series of latch locks engaging...
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4483029 |
Fluidized supporting apparatus
A fluidized patient support structure in which a mass of granular material is received within an open top container between a fluid diffuser plate and a flexible sheet on which the patient may lie...
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