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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2018
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Richard Brian Roussy, London, CA;
Joseph Elku, Tillsonburg, CA;
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A height adjustable patient support has a frame, a pair of motor powered leg assemblies operable to vertically raise and lower the frame between a lowermost position and an uppermost position, a guide structure for longitudinally guiding an end of at least one of the pair of leg assemblies along the frame as the at least one of the pair of leg assemblies operates to vertically raise and lower the frame, and a non-motorized structure operable to longitudinally bias the end of the at least one of the pair of leg assemblies when the frame is in the lowermost position, the non-motorized structure mounted on the patient support by a mounting structure non-rigidly secured to the patient support. The non-motorized structure may assist with raising the frame from the lowermost position until motors operating the motor powered legs are able to continue with raising the frame.