US 12,011,404 B2
Devices and systems for moving a person on a support apparatus
Samuel T. Fox, Durham, NC (US); and Jeremy Y. Nezaria, Wakefield, MA (US)
Assigned to SENECA DEVICES, INC., Raleigh, NC (US)
Appl. No. 17/432,786
Filed by SENECA DEVICES, INC., Raleigh, NC (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 21, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/019211
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/172525, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/844,944, filed on May 8, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/809,214, filed on Feb. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0000690 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A61G 7/10 (2006.01); A61G 5/10 (2006.01); A61G 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/1021 (2013.01) [A61G 5/10 (2013.01); A61G 7/001 (2013.01); A61G 7/1026 (2013.01); A61G 7/10 (2013.01); A61G 2203/40 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for moving a person on a support apparatus, the device comprising:
a base having a first side and a second side opposite and spaced apart from the first side, the base being separate from the support apparatus and having a support apparatus coupler for coupling the device to a portion of a support apparatus adjacent a head end of the support apparatus;
an expandable volume disposed on a surface of the base between the first side and the second side, the expandable volume being actuatable from a first position to a second position; and
a sheet having a first portion and a second portion opposite and spaced apart from the first portion, the second portion for supporting a patient, the first portion of the sheet being coupled to the base, wherein the sheet extends from the first portion, over the second side, over the expandable volume, and over the first side,
wherein actuation of the expandable volume from the first position to the second position increases a length of the sheet extending from the second side of the base to the first side of the base.