Eugene L Keller

US Patent:

20060031990, Feb 16, 2006

Filed:

Aug 11, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/917244

Inventors:

Stanley Palmatier - Paw Paw MI, US
Richard McDaniel - Constantine MI, US
Jeffrey Shiery - East Leroy MI, US
Michael Petrowski - Vicksburg MI, US
William Childs - Plainwell MI, US
Jerry Wheeler - Kalamazoo MI, US
Alfred Dacey - Mendon MI, US
Eugene Keller - Portage MI, US

International Classification:

A61G 7/012
A61G 7/015

US Classification:

005611000, 005618000

Abstract:

A patient support apparatus having a base, a litter frame, an elevation mechanism interconnecting the base to the litter frame and being configured to effect changes in elevation of the litter frame relative to the base. The litter frame includes a pair of laterally spaced and longitudinally extending support rails and a plurality of laterally extending support rails interconnecting the longitudinally extending support rails so that the litter frame has a rectangular configuration. Selected ones of the laterally extending support rails are mounted to the elevation mechanism. On the aforesaid litter frame there is mounted various modules, namely, (1) a patient support deck, (2) a set of lateral edge siderails, (3) a holder for bottled gas, (4) an attendant work surface, oriented beneath the head section when the head section is in a horizontal position, (5) a seat, thigh and foot section assembly, and (6) a head section having manipulatable controls thereon supportingly secured to the litter frame separately from the seat, thigh and foot section assembly.

US Patent:

20130227787, Sep 5, 2013

Filed:

Mar 4, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/783699

Inventors:

Martin W. Stryker - Kalamazoo MI, US
James T. Thwaites - Delton MI, US
Richard A. Derenne - Portage MI, US
Christopher S. Hough - Kalamazoo MI, US
Eugene Keller - Portage MI, US

Assignee:

STRYKER CORPORATION - Kalamazoo MI

International Classification:

A61G 7/012
A61G 7/00
A61G 7/08
A61G 7/015

US Classification:

5611, 5618, 5600

Abstract:

The present invention provides a patient support that can be configured in an expanded configuration, for example to accommodate larger patients, and then reconfigured to a more compact configuration to ease maneuverability of the patient support through constricted passageways in a facility and/or to provide a low height patient support. Further, the present invention provides a barrier around the patient support surface which includes a panel that allows a patient to see through the barrier and which is optionally adaptable to change its transparency and/or color.