US 12,029,693 B2
System for preventing falls from a bed
Umberto Aguglia, Catanzaro (IT); Edoardo Ferlazzo, Catanzaro (IT); Sara Gasparini, Catanzaro (IT); Sergio Mercuri, Catanzaro (IT); and Giuseppe Minniti, Catanzaro (IT)
Assigned to UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI MAGNA GRAECIA DI CATANZARO, Catanzaro (IT)
Appl. No. 17/293,218
Filed by UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI MAGNA GRAECIA DI CATANZARO, Catanzaro (IT)
PCT Filed Nov. 14, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/059776
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/104901, PCT Pub. Date May 28, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018000010431 (IT), filed on Nov. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0378895 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61G 7/05 (2006.01); A61G 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/0516 (2016.11) [A61G 7/052 (2016.11); A61G 2203/36 (2013.01); A61G 2203/42 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for preventing a patient from falling from a bed (30), said system comprising
a first protective side barrier (11) and a second protective side barrier (12) that are adapted to be positioned along a first side edge (31) and a second side edge (32) of the bed (30), respectively, and are configured to be lifted or lowered by varying the height thereof from a minimum height to a maximum height,
anchoring means (15, 16, 17) for fixing said first and second protective side barriers (11, 12) to a frame (33) of the bed (30), wherein the anchoring means (15, 16, 17) comprises one or more anchoring bars (15) connected to said first and second protective side barriers (11, 12) and at least one bracket (16, 17) arranged to connect each anchoring bar (15) to the frame (33) of the bed (30),
sensors adapted to detect the position taken by the patient on a mattress of the bed (30),
a control unit configured to receive data collected by said sensors and, on the basis of said data, determine in real time a lifting or lowering of a predetermined extent of said first and second protective side barriers (11, 12), up to heights of said first and second protective side barriers (11, 12) ranging between the minimum height and the maximum height, depending on the position taken by the patient on the mattress, and
a gyro sensor applicable to patient's body in order to detect the patient's decubitus, wherein the control unit, on the basis of the patient's decubitus detected by the gyro sensor, and thus of the adherence of the patient's body to an upper surface of the mattress, modulates the lifting extent and lifting speed of said first and second protective side barriers (11, 12).