US 11,723,823 B2
Multi-function headboard for patient support apparatus
Kurosh Nahavandi, Portage, MI (US); and Charles Louis Crouch, Plainwell, MI (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Jun. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/831,477.
Application 17/831,477 is a continuation of application No. 16/204,148, filed on Nov. 29, 2018, granted, now 11,389,354.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/592,946, filed on Nov. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0287898 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A61G 7/00 (2006.01); A61G 7/05 (2006.01); A61M 21/02 (2006.01); A61G 12/00 (2006.01); A61G 7/015 (2006.01); A61M 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/0506 (2013.01) [A61G 12/00 (2013.01); A61M 21/02 (2013.01); A61G 7/015 (2013.01); A61G 2203/10 (2013.01); A61G 2203/12 (2013.01); A61G 2203/70 (2013.01); A61M 2021/0027 (2013.01); A61M 2021/0044 (2013.01); A61M 2021/0066 (2013.01); A61M 2205/07 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3673 (2013.01); A61M 2205/502 (2013.01); A61M 2205/587 (2013.01); A61M 2209/082 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A patient support apparatus comprising:
a support structure including a base and a support frame;
a patient support deck operatively attached to the support frame and having a plurality of deck sections including a fowler section arranged for movement relative to the support frame; and
a headboard assembly including:
a headboard body operatively attached to the fowler section for concurrent movement with the fowler section relative to the support frame,
a modular headboard section,
a mounting bracket coupled to the fowler section,
an articulating arm operatively attached to the mounting bracket at a first end and supporting the modular headboard section at a second end for movement relative to the headboard body between a plurality of configurations including a first configuration and a second configuration different from the first configuration, and
a receiver shaped to receive the modular headboard section in a third configuration to at least partially limit movement of the modular headboard section relative to the receiver in one or more degrees of freedom.