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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2007
Ching-hua Wei, Yung-Kang, TW;
Ting-chun Tung, Yung-Kang, TW;
Zhi-hao Shi, Yung-Kang, TW;
Whai-shen Chen, Yung-Kang, TW;
Shen-yuan Lin, Yung-Kang, TW;
Ching-Hua Wei, Yung-Kang, TW;
Ting-Chun Tung, Yung-Kang, TW;
Zhi-Hao Shi, Yung-Kang, TW;
Whai-Shen Chen, Yung-Kang, TW;
Shen-Yuan Lin, Yung-Kang, TW;
Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Tainan County, TW;
Abstract
A hospital bed apparatus includes a supporting frame, a lifting mechanism, and a horizontally moving mechanism; the lifting mechanism includes two horizontal rods on two sides of a hospital bed, and a sheet is disposed between and connected to the horizontal rods; either one of the horizontal rods can be lifted so as to turn and reposition the patient on the sheet; the horizontally moving mechanism includes linearly displaceable transverse rods, and connecting rods pivoted to the transverse rods and the lifting mechanism; the sheet and the horizontal rods of the lifting mechanism will be moved outside of the hospital bed when the horizontally moving mechanism is actuated after the sheet have been lifted off the hospital bed together with the horizontal rods; thus, the patient can be shifted to another hospital bed.