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4989283 Inflation control for air supports  
A method of controlling the inflation of a body support, such as a mattress, having a plurality of air cells. The user is placed on the mattress and the air cells are inflated to provide the...
4986738 Airflow control system pump and housing  
A housing containing an air pump and an air pressure supply system for supplying air to a body support, such as an air mattress. The housing contains, in addition to the air pump, diaphragm type...
4982466 Body support system  
An air bed comprising an air mattress having a plurality of interconnected rows and columns of air cells divided into longitudinally isolated zones, and an airflow control system for supplying air...
4962552 Air-operated body support device  
Airtight sacks are installed in parallel array to support a patient on a bed. A blower supplies air to the sacks through a function control valve system and a multi-tap high flow pressure selector....
4949412 Closed loop feedback air supply for air support beds  
A closed loop feeback-controlled air supply system for air support convalescent beds having groups of air sacs for supporting various body sections of a patient. The air supply system may be...
4949413 Low air loss bed  
An improved patient support structure comprising an articulatable frame, a plurality of elongated inflatable sacks, some of the sacks having one or two comfort slots therein, a low pressure...
4947500 Therapeutic mattress, in particular for preventing or curing decubitus ulcers  
The therapeutic mattress comprises an elastic but hard base layer of foam material. Over this base layer is applied a frame composed of a hard part and a soft part. On its upper side the mattress...
4945590 Valve for fluid mat and apparatus for controlling an attitude assumed by fluid mat  
A valve in the form of a solenoid valve includes a valve seat made of magnetic material in which a solenoid is received, and an inner diameter part of the value seat serves as a passage through...
4945588 Air/water mattress and inflation apparatus  
An inflation system for a mattress having a lower, water chamber and a coextensive upper, air chamber includes a pair of opposed blowers, a solenoid air valve, both manual and pressure activated...
4944060 Mattress assembly for the prevention and treatment of decubitus ulcers  
A mattress assembly for the treatment and prevention of decubitus ulcers and for the treatment of other conditions of the skin and/or underlying tissue. The assembly includes a base support,...
4935968 Patient support appliances  
A patient support appliance is provided of the kind formed from a plurality of inflatable air sacs, mounted on an articulating base and extending transversely of the base so as to provide, when...
4907308 Heat exchange system for inflatable patient support appliances  
A heat exchange system for cooling and/or heating the patient support surface of an inflatable support appliance such as a low air loss bed is disclosed. Tubing and bladders carrying a circulating...
4897890 Air control system for air bed  
An air pump having a diaphragm moved with a solenoid operates to supply air under pressure to air mattresses of an air bed. A hand control having a pair of valves functions to control the operation...
4896389 Inflatable air mattress  
Disclosed is a one-piece inflated air mattress that can be used as such or laid over a hospital bed mattress. Its body is formed of a series of transverse parallel pillow-like air tunnels connected...
4864671 Controllably inflatable cushion  
A controllably inflatable cushion that includes a number of independently inflatable rows or zones of cells. Each row or zone is connected to the pressure port of a corresponding three-way valve,...
4862921 Air distribution system for air support convalescent beds  
An air distribution manifold assembly for air support convalescent beds includes a rectangular housing adapted to be secured to a flat surface of the bed structure and cooperating therewith to form...
4852195 Fluid pressurized cushion  
A hollow, air filled body support cushion such as a seat cushion or mattress is formed from typically three interfitting matrices each comprising a set of hollow cells formed from natural or...
4838309 Variable flow gas valve  
A multi-outlet, variable flow, gas valve connects a blower to the pipes and comprises a housing defining an inlet and a passageway. The valve housing further defines at least two cylinder chambers...
4825486 Bedsore-preventing air mattress controller  
A bedsore-preventing air mattress controller provided with an air pump for generating a magnetomotive force in a plurality of stages proportional to the feed air amount of the pump, and with an...
4807313 Inflatable inclined mattress support system  
There is disclosed a system for selectively supporting a mattress at a predetermined angle of inclination with respect to a support surface, such as a box spring, or the like. The system comprises...
4803744 Inflatable bed  
This invention is concerned with an improved air bed system. In this invention, the bed occupant can control the firmness of the bed. Two inflatable bladders are used with a pre-set pressure...
4799276 Body rest with means for preventing pressure sores  
A body rest such as a bed with means incorporated for avoiding the development of pressure sores (decubitus ulcer) caused by prolonged local pressure against a patient's body. The bed comprises: a...
4777679 Inflatable cushion with central opening  
Bedding or seat device featuring a first cushion which includes the following, a device of insuring a localized compression - decompression of the tissues around the bed sores, a device to avoid...
4730604 Arhythmic baby bed  
A baby bed is described which includes an air mattress connected to a bubble chamber consisting of a partially-filled container of fluid through which air is discharged and from which an arhythmic...
4722105 Fluid support systems  
An air support system suitable as a hospital bed comprises a plurality of contiguous, inflatable cells 2. A blower 25 supplies inflation air to the cells. The blower 25 is driven by an electric...
4711275 Air supply and control apparatus for inflatable mattress  
An air supply and control apparatus for an inflatable mattress 2 has several air compressors 1 which are operated in turn, during normal operation, to inflate the mattress 2. In the case of the...
4686722 Articulated bed with cellular air cushion mattress  
Individual groups of inflatable cushions forming an air mattress are supplied with pressurizing air through a common feed duct having an upstream on/off valve and individual on/off valves in branch...
4662012 Bed utilizing an air mattress  
A bed wherein a spring foundation supports an air mattress. The air mattress is formed from two air-impermeable sheets, each sheet having been vacuum-formed to provide a plurality of aligned...
4653130 Bedsore preventing apparatus  
A bedsore preventing apparatus comprises an air mattress having at least two groups of pneumatically expandible and contractible cells respectively communicating with one another in each of the...
4641386 Method of and device for restraining the sleeping body of an astronaut in conditions of weightlessness  
The present invention provides a method of and a device for restraining the sleeping body of an astronaut in zero-g. The method comprises providing said sleeping body with extensive proprioceptive...
4638519 Fluidized hospital bed  
Fluidized hospital bed is provided incorporating a segmented, adjustable patient support structure having a plurality of flexible air impervious air bags releasably secured thereto. An air supply...
4622706 Air mat apparatus  
In an air mat apparatus comprising a mat body having a plurality of defined air chambers, there is an air source for feeding air to each of the air chambers of the mat body and a changeover valve...
4617690 Inflatable bed patient mattress  
The mattress includes a hollow, elongated, fluid-inflated mattress body which may be permanently inflated or inflatable and deflatable by connection with a suitable inflation device. The mattress...
4594743 Air support bed  
A portable and collapsible bed includes a generally rectangular tubular frame and an inflatable mattress with the inflatable mattress having a connecting means that has loose flaps extending...
4583255 Massage arrangement of the pneumatic type  
This disclosure relates to a massage arrangement of the pneumatic type comprising a mat body provided with a plurality of juxtaposed air chambers, said mat body being subjected over the entire or...
4551874 Pneumatic massage mat  
A pneumatic massage mat comprises a plurality of juxtaposed air chambers which are expanded and contracted in given sequence by sequentially feeding and bleeding air under pressure into and out of...
4542547 Pnuematic mat with sensing means  
A mat unit for a bed may be selectively inflated or deflated, to change the posture of an individual lying on the bed, in a natural and gentle manner. A plurality of such mat units may make up a...
4525885 Support appliance for mounting on a standard hospital bed  
A support appliance is provided with a base structure comprising a plurality of hinged base boards arranged to be mounted on a standard hospital bed and providing a continuous, firm, base...
4488322 Mattress and bed construction  
A mattress is provided having a body which incorporates a plurality of air supply chambers which are connected to air supply conduits, a plurality of inflatable air sacs being mounted on the...
4472847 Patient treating mattress  
A disposable or reusable "crawl resistant" flexible mattress formed of panels sealed together to define alternately inflatable passages between the panels for sequentially supporting structure for...
4391009 Ventilated body support  
Disclosed is a ventilated support for living bodies comprising an inflatable alternating pressure pad which is either enclosed by or forms a part of an air permeable plenum chamber through which...
4267611 Inflatable massaging and cooling mattress  
An inflatable mattress having top and bottom sheets of thin vinyl material heat-sealed together to form a plurality of transversely extending inflatable ribs. The ribs are generally arcuate in...
4225989 Inflatable supports  
A ripple bed has an upper and a lower inflatable layer. The upper layer has separate air passages which are independently inflatable and deflatable to provide the rippling effect. The lower layer...
4197837 Inflatable-deflatable pad and air control system therefor  
An inflatable pad combined with an air control system for producing periodic inflation and deflation of that pad. The pad is elongated and has at least two separate passages extending from one end...
4193149 Beds and mattresses  
A multi-layer mattress comprises inflatable tubes each of which extends across a dimension of the mattress and form part of one of a number of arrays extending through each layer. All the tubes of...
4175297 Inflatable pillow support  
The present invention relates to an alternating inflatable support for the human body. The invention includes a flexible pillow having a plurality of fluid impervious pockets therein which are...
4133305 Relaxation apparatus including mattress and pneumatic vibrating device  
A relaxation apparatus includes a mattress consisting essentially of an inflatable hollow body defining an interior space and having an upper reclining surface area for carrying a human body. An...
4068334 Inflatable body support apparatus  
A body support apparatus is disclosed as having alternatingly inflatable and deflatable cells and uninflated resilient body support material positioned between the cells. The cells are inflated by...
3935604 Support device for lifting and supporting patients  
A support device having a flexible, non-elastic base sheet which can be positioned upon the flat surface of a bed and a plurality of separate inflatable cushions each secured along one edge to the...
3909858 Support appliances  
In a bed for example for hospital use in which the mattress comprises a plurality of separate air cells at different pressures, means for mounting the air cells so as to render them easily...
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