Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
  • A61G1/00—Stretchers
  • A61G1/02—Stretchers with wheels
  • A61G1/0293—Stretchers with wheels stretcher supports with wheels, e.g. used for stretchers without wheels
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
  • A61G1/00—Stretchers
  • A61G1/017—Stretchers convertible into chairs
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
  • A61G1/00—Stretchers
  • A61G1/04—Parts, details or accessories, e.g. head-, foot-, or like rests specially adapted for stretchers
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
  • A61G1/00—Stretchers
  • A61G1/06—Supports for stretchers, e.g. to be placed in or on vehicles
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
  • A61G1/00—Stretchers
  • A61G1/013—Stretchers foldable or collapsible

Definitions

• the invention relates to a patient transport device, which are used in particular for use outside a hospital or a clinic.
• the known patient transport devices are generally adjustable in height and thus have in addition to the bed surface on a height-adjustable base, which is typically provided with running and / or castors.
• a simple way of realizing a height-adjustable undercarriage concerns the use of scissors-lifting devices.
• Single scissor linkages are used, which have two pairs of intersecting struts. These two pairs of intersecting struts are juxtaposed, wherein the one ends of the four struts are connected to a lower part of the underframe and the other ends of the four struts with an upper part of the underframe or with a lying surface or the frame a lying surface.
• connection to the aforementioned elements is chosen such that in each case two struts are hinged at their one ends and rotatable and slidable at their other ends.
• Examples of single shear linkage are described in WO-A-02/39944, WO-A-2006/036980 and US-A-2002/0056162
• the bases To be able to realize a sufficient lifting height in such single-scissors lifting devices, the bases must be made relatively long. A base with comparatively long length can not be maneuvered in confined spaces, or difficult to maneuver.
• the object of the invention is to provide a related improved height adjustable stretcher.
• a height-adjustable and in particular also movable patient transport device is proposed with the invention, which is provided with
• a undercarriage having a lower frame provided with steering and / or casters, an upper frame and a lifting device, the lifting device being disposed between the lower frame and the upper frame and arranged to vary their mutual distance between a low-lift position and maximum lift position,
• the lifting device comprising two operatively connected lifting shears units arranged one above the other and of which the lower lifting shears unit is coupled to the lower frame and the upper lifting shears unit to the upper frame of the lower frame,
• each scissors-type unit comprising two pairs (scissor arms) each of a first and a second strut (i.e., a scissor arm) which intersect and are pivotally connected to each other, and both pairs are arranged laterally offset at a common level and parallel to one another;
• each first strut of the lower scissors unit is rotatably connected to the lower frame and a first end of each second strut of the lower scissor unit is pivotally guided with and slidably on the lower frame
• each first strut of the upper scissor unit is rotatably connected to the upper frame and a first end of each second strut of the upper scissor unit is pivotally guided with and slidably on the upper frame
• Frame is connected or detachably connectable to the upper frame.
• a double or generally multiple-prettier is provided as a lifting device, which consists of at least two superposed individual scissors-lifting units.
• the lying surface is now over with its backrest part and its lower leg / foot part over the ends lying in the longitudinal extension of the underframe. It is expedient in this respect if the base frame or a frame of the lying surface at its upper end extendable extension elements with handle ends, so that the base has at its upper end as a stretcher longitudinal bars, along the entire bed surface and optionally to the handle over extend the lying area out.
• Each scissors unit of the lifting device of the patient transport device has two (Scherenarm-) pairs of a respective first and a second strut (scissor arm). These two struts (scissor arms) cross each other and are pivotally connected to each other. Both pairs of struts or scissors are arranged laterally offset from one another and, as it were, are located on a common level and, moreover, are arranged parallel to one another.
• a scissors unit With such a scissors unit according to the invention now at least a second scissor unit is connected, wherein the respective strut pairs, the are arranged one above the other, are hingedly connected to each other at the facing ends of their struts.
• the lower Hubscherentician is now connected to the lower part of the underframe, which is designed as a lower frame.
• the upper Hubscherentician is connected to the upper part of the underframe, which is formed as an upper frame.
• the two lifting scissor units can also be connected directly to each other via the mutually facing ends of their intersecting struts, as described above.
• the upper frame can be tilted to the lifting device or the lifting device can be tilted to the lower frame or the lifting device can be tilted; In all three cases, the lying surface is tiltable
• An essential feature of the invention is to be able to realize the base compact, in the context of compliance with the lowest possible Niederigst Even, i. a lowest possible bottom position (so that a lying on the floor patient hardly needs to be raised to be able to be spent on the bed), while allowing the highest possible highest position of the patient transport device.
• the lifting device can be operated automatically by means of a drive. It is expedient if the drive has a motor with a movable by the motor actuator and the drive is mechanically coupled between two adjacent Hubscherenritten and thus acts on these two Hubscherenritten to change the height of the lifting device.
• the drive has a motor with a movable by the motor actuator and the drive is mechanically coupled between two adjacent Hubscherenticianen and thus acts on these two Hubscherenritten to change the height of the lifting device.
• the patient transport device according to the invention can also with
• the lying surface of the patient transport device according to the invention which has a head end, which is usually formed by a backrest, and a foot-side end, which is usually formed by a foot part, can be designed differently.
• the lying surface usually has a holding frame or other holding structure and is preferably removably fixed to and / on the upper frame of the undercarriage. As already mentioned above, the upper frame or even the support structure of the lying surface can be changed in length.
• the lying surface comprises a central part with a first end facing the head end of the lying surface and a second end facing the foot end of the lying surface, a backrest part hingedly connected to the first end of the middle part and pivotable about a first pivot axis which extends transversely to the longitudinal extent of the lying surface defined by the head-side end and the foot-side end of the lying surface, and a lower leg / foot part pivotable about a second pivot axis parallel to the first pivot axis relative to the central part, the second pivot axis being viewed in the longitudinal extent of the lying surface is arranged outside the upper frame of the undercarriage.
• Such a partitioned lying surface with the above-described positioning of the second pivot axis relative to the upper frame allows the lower leg / foot to fold down by 90 °, so that when folded up backrest extending in the manner of a chair seat arises.
• the lying surface can be redesigned as a chair surface, without extending the longitudinal extent of the upper frame or, if present, the longitudinal extension of the frame or the support structure of the lying surface to the foot area over the lower leg foot part out.
• the hospital chair designed in this way can now be comfortably moved at a suitable height and can also be lowered sufficiently far.
• the lower frame which is shortened due to the lifting device according to the invention, not disturbing. There are no "stumbling edges" or the like on the foot side.
• the patient transport device can be used in confined spaces, such as in tight bends in TreppnNeilln or corridors and in particular in elevators.
• the upper frame has two frame longitudinal sections and two transverse to this frame cross sections, wherein the first frame cross section the head end of the lying surface and the second frame cross section faces the foot end of the bed, and that the pivot axis when the lying surface is viewed from above, the side of the second frame cross section facing away from the first frame transverse section of the upper frame is positioned.
• the middle part of the lying surface may have a seat part and a lower leg part which is pivotable relative to the seat part about a third pivot axis parallel to the first and second pivot axis and with which the lower leg / foot part is pivotally connected to the second pivot axis
• the lower frame of the underframe has two frame longitudinal sections and two transverse frame cross sections extending transversely thereto, the first frame transverse section facing the head-side end of the lying surface and the second frame transverse section facing the foot-side end of the lying surface.
• the lower frame of the underframe may be designed to be longer at the foot than the upper Frame.
• the two frame longitudinal sections of the lower frame each protrude beyond the second frame cross section, wherein in these projections sections of the frame longitudinal sections in each case a steering and / or roller is arranged, and that the lower leg / foot part of the lying surface at the foot-side end in folded down to the lower frame of the underframe state is immersed in the space between the two supernatant sections.
• the rotatably connected to the lower frame of the underframe first ends of the first struts of the lower Hubscherenech close to or on the one frame cross section the lower frame and the pivotally connected to the lower frame and slidably guided on the lower frame first ends of the second struts of the lower Hubscherenappel in the Niedrststubposition the lifting device are arranged close to or on the other frame cross section of the lower frame. Accordingly, it is also advantageous that the rotatably connected to the upper frame of the underframe first ends of the first
• FIGS. 1 to 35 different embodiments of the invention
• Fig. 35 is a perspective view of an embodiment of
• Patient transport device with double-scissors units and a subdivided into individual areas lying surface which is convertible to a chair or a chair surface, wherein in Fig. 1, the lying surface is oriented for the prone lying,
• Fig. 36 the patient transport device according to FIG. 35, but in the
• Lying surface is oriented for the prone, transformed as a hospital, and
• Fig.37 the hospital chair of FIG. 36 in side view.
• the patient transport device 10 comprises a height-adjustable base frame 12 and a lying surface 14, which is arranged above the base frame 12 and optionally detachable therefrom.
• the underframe 12 has a lower frame 16 with running and / or four steering rollers 18. Further, the underframe 12 comprises an upper frame 20. Between the two frames is a lifting device 22, which has two superposed individual scissor units, namely a lower scissor unit 24 and an upper scissor unit 26.
• the lower scissors unit 24 is connected to the lower frame 16th on the one hand rotatable and on the other hand coupled pivotally and longitudinally displaceable, while the upper scissor unit 26 is mechanically coupled in the same way with the upper frame 20. Both scissors units 24, 26 are hinged together at their ends facing each other. Via a drive 28, which has a motor 30 and an actuator 32, the two scissor units 24, 26 can be adjusted in height.
• each scissors unit 24 or 26 has two (scissor-type) pairs 34 of intersecting first and second struts 36, 38 (scissor arms).
• the struts are pivotally connected at 40.
• the first end 42 of the first strut 36 is pivotally connected at 44 to the lower frame 16, while the first end 46 of each second strut 38 is longitudinally slidably guided on the frame 16 (see at 48).
• the first ends of the first struts 36 of the upper scissor unit 26 are rotatably connected to the upper frame 20 (see at 50) while the first ends 46 of the second struts 38 are pivotally and longitudinally slidable on the upper frame 20 as shown at 52 ,
• the second ends 58, 60 of the second struts 38 are both scissors units 24, 26 hinged together.
• the lying surface 14 has a central part 62 which comprises a stationary seat part 64 and a thigh part 66 hingedly connected thereto.
• the middle part 62 Towards the head end 68 of the lying surface 14, the middle part 62 has a first one End 70, which is pivotally connected via a first pivot axis 72 with a backrest portion 74 of the lying surface 14.
• the middle part 62 also has a second end 76 which faces the foot-side end 78 of the lying surface 14 and which is connected via a second pivot axis 80 articulated to a lower leg / foot part 82 of the lying surface 14.
• Between the thigh portion 66 and the fixed seat portion 64 is a third pivot axis 83rd
• FIGS 36 and 37 show how the bed surface 14 is convertible to a chair surface.
• the lower leg / foot part 82 dips into a recess, that is to say into a free space on the lower frame 16, when, in the function as a hospital chair, the underframe 12 is lowered so far that the foot-side end 78 of the lower leg / Foot 82 is near the ground on which the base 12 is moved.
• Both frames 16, 20 each have two frame longitudinal sections 84, 85 (on the lower frame 16) and 86, 87 (on the upper frame 20) and two frame transverse sections 88, 89 and 90, 91. While the upper frame 20 is substantially rectangular, the lower frame 16 at its foot-side frame cross-section 89 has a projection which is formed by projecting portions 92 of the frame longitudinal sections 84, 85. In other words, the frame longitudinal sections 84, 85 over the supernatant portions 92 to the outside via the foot-side frame cross section 89 on.
• FIGS. 1 to 10 a first variant of the stretcher Invention ⁇ proper, in which the reclining surface can be adjusted independently of the shortening of the slabs frame.
• FIGS. 11 to 18 show a second variant of the patient transport device according to the invention, in which the lying surface is automatically changed when the couch surface area is changed in length.
• FIGS. 27 to 34 show a further embodiment of the invention in which the lying surface is adjusted as its frame length changes.

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