Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
177144000 | Furniture or room fixture | 10 |
20090084609 | MATTRESS SEAT FORCE SENSING METHOD - A weighing system and method associated with a mattress is operable to determine a patient weight value while the patient is positioned on the mattress. | 04-02-2009 |
20090288888 | PASSENGER'S WEIGHT MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE SEAT - To realizes an easy maintenance of the load sensor. | 11-26-2009 |
20100163315 | BED MONITORING PAD - A sensor pad is adapted to be positioned on a patient's bed as part of a monitoring system that provides a signal to a nurse or other caregiver when the patient exits the bed. The sensor pad is thinner and more flexible than existing pads to provide comfort to the user. | 07-01-2010 |
20110067931 | PIECE OF FURNITURE - A body support structure, such as a piece of furniture, in particular a piece of furniture for sitting on or a piece of furniture for lying on, such as, for example, chair, armchair, stool, bed or sofa, a seat of the piece of furniture being supported by a spring mechanism, and the spring mechanism being capable of being set to a weight force with which a person acts on the seat. | 03-24-2011 |
20130146371 | REAL-TIME WEIGHING DEVICE FOR USE WITH HOSPITAL BED - A real-time weighing device for use with hospital bed includes a bed frame; a support plate spread on a top of the bed frame and made of a light but rigid enough material; a plurality of load cells uniformly distributed between the bed frame and the support plate for measuring a weight value of a patient lying on the support plate; and a processing element electrically connected to the load cells for collecting, sorting and calculating values of weight measured by the load cells to derive data about the patient's body weight and the patient's current center of gravity on the support plate, so that the derived data may provide nursing personnel with more complete data about the patient's current state. | 06-13-2013 |
20130319776 | CHAIR-BASED SCALE - A chair-based scale for weighing a person in a seated position is disclosed. The scale includes a system for electronically displaying data and other information. In one embodiment, the chair-based scale is a stand-alone scale, and in other embodiments, it communicates with a remote computer. According to one embodiment, the chair comprises a collapsible chair. A collapsible chair provides certain advantages, such as lower manufacturing and shipping costs, and ease of shipping to and storage and use at a user location (e.g., a patient's home or apartments), or a health care facility. According to an embodiment of the invention, the collapsible chair may be a folding chair, e.g., of the deck chair or director chair type. According to one embodiment, the chair comprises a protective cover that is movable to prevent loading of a load sensor in a non-weighing condition of the chair. In another embodiment, the chair is provided with wheels and e.g., is of the transport type. | 12-05-2013 |
20140069729 | REAL-TIME WEIGHT MEASURING SYSTEM FOR HOSPITAL BED - A weight measuring system for hospital bed includes a bed bottom frame having two load cell mounting spaces formed at a front end and a rear end of the bed bottom frame between a first and a second supporting frame thereof; and a plurality of load cells mounted on the bed bottom frame to locate in the two load cell mounting spaces. Each load cell includes a supporting unit and at least one strain measurement unit attached to a lateral surface of the supporting unit for measuring an extent of strain elongation of the supporting unit under a bedridden patient's weight. With these arrangements, a nurse can not only measure a bedridden patient's weight without the need of moving the patient, but also monitor the patient's movement on the hospital bed in real time, preventing the patient from getting out of bed alone or carelessly falling off the hospital bed. | 03-13-2014 |
20140124274 | PATIENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - A patient support system includes a scale system, an air system, and a lift system. The patient support system also includes a control system configured to graphically communicate information about the scale system, the air system, and the lift system to a user. | 05-08-2014 |
20150008049 | Hospital Bed Having Weigh Scale System - A hospital bed includes a force sensor or scale apparatus configured to detect the weight of a patient. | 01-08-2015 |
20150014069 | SCANNING TABLE - A scanning table is provided to measure a patient's weight accurately. The scanning table may include a table body, for supporting a human body; a lifting system, for driving the table body to go up and down; and a force-measuring component connected with the lifting system, for measuring a support force which is imposed on the table body by the lifting system. Because the support force to the table body by the lifting system is related to positions of a patient and the table body. When the lifting system is connected with the force-measuring component, a force measured by the force-measuring component can reflect the patient's weight accurately and truly. The force-measuring component can measure a change of the support force, which is combined with related data of the table body to obtain the patient's weight. Therefore, the measurement accuracy can be improved. | 01-15-2015 |