Hill-rom Services, Inc.

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Joseph A Ernst

Jonathan D Turner

Richard Henry Heimbrock

John D Christie

Aziz Ali Bhai

David P Lubbers

Scott M Corbin

Stephen E Hutchison

Mahesh Kumar Thodupunuri

Mark Lanning

David W Hornbach

Jeffrey A Ruschke

Brian S Guthrie

Robert A Bossingham

James Dean Lattimore

Mark Tyler Rigsby

Brian Guthrie

Mark E Lanning

A system for changing the width of a person support apparatus includes a bed controller for receiving a command signal indicating a command for width alteration, a first motor controlled by the bed controller for driving an extension of a first deck section of the support apparatus thereby altering the width of the first deck section, and a second motor controlled by the bed controller for driving an extension of a second deck section of the support apparatus thereby altering the width of the second deck section. The bed controller controls the first motor and the second motor in a manner that causes the first deck section to reach a first deck section width alteration limit at a first time and the second deck section to reach a second deck section width alteration limit at a second time, wherein the first time and the second time are not equal.

Width adjustable person support system with dual inboard mounted motors and proximate, directly driven extension wings

An occupant support system for supporting an occupant comprises a frame, an articulable assembly which includes an upper body section, and a motion control system arranged to rotate the upper body section by an amount &#x394;&#x3b1; relative to the frame, to translate the upper body section along the frame by an amount &#x394;CS, and to translate the upper body section by an amount &#x394;BS in a direction parallel to the upper body section. Both &#x394;BS and &#x394;CS are a function of &#x394;&#x3b1;.

Occupant support with a translatable and parallel translatable upper body section

Person support system with width expansion wings which reach extension limits at different times

A bed comprises a deck section having a width and left and right outboard deck edges. Left side and right side wings are movably coupled to the deck section. The bed also includes a left leadscrew receiver mounted on the left wing, a right leadscrew receiver mounted on the right wing, and left and right motor assemblies both mounted on the deck section. A left leadscrew is coupled to the left motor assembly and to the left leadscrew receiver. A right leadscrew is coupled to the right motor assembly and to the right leadscrew receiver. Motor operation is capable of moving the wing to which it is coupled between a deployed position in which the lateral extremity of the wing is outboard of the respective outboard edge of the deck section and a stored position in which the lateral extremity of the wing is inboard of its deployed position.

Adjustable person support system with expansion wings driven by dual leadscrews and center mounted motors

A combined siderail/over-bed table unitfor a bedhas a table position in which at least partof the unit overlies a mattress regionof the bed thereby serving as an over-bed table and also has a siderail position allowing the unit to serve as a siderail.

Combined siderail and over-bed table

An articulable occupant support system for supporting an occupant, includes an upper frame, an articulable assembly comprising at least one section articulable relative to the upper frame and a motion control system. The motion control system is arranged to govern motion of the articulable assembly based on a relationship relating scheduled motion of the sections to anthropometric information.

Anthropometrically governed occupant support

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Joseph A Ernst