US 11,850,196 B2
Flexible overhead arm
Robert M. Zerhusen, Batesville, IN (US); Jonathan K. Moenter, Batesville, IN (US); Joshua L Meyer, Batesville, IN (US); Robert D. Ross, Durham, NC (US); John G. Byers, Brookville, IN (US); and Matthew R. Knue, Sunman, IN (US)
Assigned to Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US)
Filed by Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US)
Filed on Jul. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/389,790.
Application 17/389,790 is a continuation of application No. 15/976,984, filed on May 11, 2018, granted, now 11,103,398.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/572,922, filed on Oct. 16, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/507,727, filed on May 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0353480 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61G 7/05 (2006.01); H01R 13/713 (2006.01); A61G 12/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/05 (2013.01) [A61G 7/0503 (2013.01); A61G 12/00 (2013.01); A61G 12/002 (2013.01); A61G 12/008 (2013.01); H01R 13/7135 (2013.01); A61G 2203/20 (2013.01); A61G 2203/78 (2013.01); H02J 7/0042 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An overhead arm assembly for use with a patient bed, the overhead arm assembly comprising
a plurality of interconnected pivotable arms, a free end of a first arm of the plurality of arms being configured to couple to the patient bed, and
a patient interface unit being suspended from a second arm of the plurality of arms, the patient interface unit having a first flex circuit overlay attached thereto, the first flex circuit overlay being selected from a plurality of different flex circuit overlays, the first flex circuit overlay having buttons for controlling a first set of features of the patient bed, wherein each flex circuit overlay of the plurality of flex circuit overlays includes deck section control buttons that are pressed by a patient to move deck sections of the patient bed.