Stryker Corporation

Zane Marwan Shami

Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu

Aaron Douglas Furman

Daniel Vincent Brosnan

Brandon David Naber

Alexander Josef Bodurka

Hieu Phan

Scott A Kuebler

Madhu Sandeep Thota

Justin Thomas McLouth

Bhavin Rajeshkumar Kapadia

Scott Michael Batzer

Gwynneth St John

A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, operating table, recliner, or the like, include a litter frame, a support deck, a battery, an AC connector for receiving electrical power, a plurality of motorized actuators, and a control system. The control system limits the amount of electrical power available to the motorized actuators to different levels depending upon whether the AC connector or the battery is powering the patient support apparatus. The control system may also or alternatively change the power available to the motorized actuators depending upon whether a mattress therapy is currently in progress or not. Still further, the control system may pause battery recharging during actuator movement, may utilize one or electronic fuses to control power delivery, and/or wake up sleeping (or shut down) microcontrollers using a specialized network transceiver command that cause the recipient transceiver to wake up its associated microcontroller.

Patient care system with power management

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Kalamazoo, MI, United States of America

Zane Marwan Shami