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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2014
Hill-rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Jonathan D. Turner, Dillsboro, IN (US);
John D. Christie, Batesville, IN (US);
Joseph A. Ernst, Cincinnati, OH (US);
David P. Lubbers, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Scott M. Corbin, Sunman, IN (US);
Mark E. Lanning, Mt. Pleasant, SC (US);
Mahesh Kumar Thodupunuri, Troy, OH (US);
Aziz Ali Bhai, Fishers, IN (US);
Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
A bed comprises a deck section having a width and left and right outboard deck edges. Left side and right side wings are movably coupled to the deck section. The bed also includes a left leadscrew receiver mounted on the left wing, a right leadscrew receiver mounted on the right wing, and left and right motor assemblies both mounted on the deck section. A left leadscrew is coupled to the left motor assembly and to the left leadscrew receiver. A right leadscrew is coupled to the right motor assembly and to the right leadscrew receiver. Motor operation is capable of moving the wing to which it is coupled between a deployed position in which the lateral extremity of the wing is outboard of the respective outboard edge of the deck section and a stored position in which the lateral extremity of the wing is inboard of its deployed position.