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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Hill-rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Steven A. Dixon, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Douglas J. Menkedick, Guilford, IN (US);
William L. Jacques, II, Mount Pleasant, SC (US);
James K. Findlay, Fishers, IN (US);
John B. Wilker, Jr., Dillsboro, IN (US);
Eugene E. Osborne, Hebron, KY (US);
Carl W. Riley, Milan, IN (US);
Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
A bed includes a frame, a controller coupled to the frame, and a patient position detection system coupled to the frame and coupled to the controller. The patient position detection system has multiple modes of operation of varying sensitivities for determining whether a person supported on the frame has moved by a sufficient amount to activate an alarm. The frame includes a plurality of barriers. An alert light is coupled to one of the barriers.