US 12,274,652 B2
Exercise device and patient support apparatus
Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Kalamazoo, MI (US); Celso Henrique Farnese Pires Pereira, Portage, MI (US); Jeffrey Kennedy, Kalamazoo, MI (US); Kaitlin Therese Konopacz, Lake Zurich, IL (US); and Heather Sirianni, Aliso Vieso, CA (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/695,151.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/161,175, filed on Mar. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0287897 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A61G 7/05 (2006.01); A63B 21/00 (2006.01); A63B 21/04 (2006.01); A63B 21/055 (2006.01); A63B 24/00 (2006.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01)
CPC A61G 7/05 (2013.01) [A63B 21/0442 (2013.01); A63B 21/0557 (2013.01); A63B 21/4034 (2015.10); A63B 24/0062 (2013.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A63B 2208/0252 (2013.01); A63B 2220/17 (2013.01); A63B 2220/40 (2013.01); A63B 2220/803 (2013.01); A63B 2225/50 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. An exercise device for use with a patient while the patient is positioned on a patient support apparatus, the exercise device comprising:
a first connector adapted to be releasably coupled to a first location of patient support apparatus;
a patient-contacting portion adapted to contact a portion of the patient's body;
a first elastic portion positioned between the first connector and the patient-contacting portion, the first elastic portion adapted to allow the patient to move the patient-contacting portion from a first position to a second position;
a sensor adapted to automatically detect movement of the patient-contacting portion between the first and second position;
a first location transceiver adapted to communicate with a second location transceiver physically separated from the exercise device, wherein the first location transceiver is adapted to determine position information regarding a relative position of the first location transceiver to the second location transceiver; and
a wireless transceiver adapted to transmit movement data derived from the sensor to a recipient device, wherein the first location transceiver is an ultra-wideband transceiver adapted to communicate with the second location transceiver via ultra-wideband signals.