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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
Hill-rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Gavin M. Monson, Batesville, IN (US);
Nolan D. Wanner, Milan, IN (US);
Jeffrey S. Jelinek, Batesville, IN (US);
Jonathan D. Turner, Dillsboro, IN (US);
Jonathan K. Moenter, Batesville, IN (US);
David C. Newkirk, Lawrenceburg, IN (US);
John D. Christie, Batesville, IN (US);
Matthew R. Knue, Sunman, IN (US);
Nishita Vanita Shashikant, Batesville, IN (US);
Jack B. Sing, Batesville, IN (US);
Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
A dual-wheel steerable motorized caster has internal motors that are operated at different speeds to swivel a pair of wheels about a caster swivel axis. The motors are operated at the same speed to propel an apparatus to which the dual-wheel steerable motorized caster is coupled along an underlying surface such as a floor in a drive direction without swiveling the pair of wheels about the caster swivel axis. A patient support apparatus has one or more of such dual-wheel steerable motorized casters.