US 12,447,078 B2
Patient support system including expandable patient support and control assembly with display having animations for instructing a user
Bradley Sommer, Lagrange, OH (US); Seyed Behrad Ghodsi, Paw Paw, MI (US); and Andrew John Engelkemier, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US)
Appl. No. 18/009,110
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 29, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/052572
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/072440, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 7, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/084,806, filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0248597 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. A61G 7/018 (2006.01); A61G 7/057 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/018 (2013.01) [A61G 7/05769 (2013.01); A61G 2203/20 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A patient support system for use on a litter of a patient support apparatus, the patient support system comprising:
an expandable patient support including:
a main patient support section having opposing sides and a main patient support surface;
an auxiliary patient support section having an auxiliary patient support surface, the auxiliary patient support section being expandable away from one of the opposing sides of the main patient support section to expand an overall width of the expandable patient support from a first width to a second width; and
one or more fastening elements arranged to secure the auxiliary patient support section adjacent to the main patient support section when the auxiliary patient support section is collapsed; and
a control assembly connectable to the expandable patient support, the control assembly including:
an expander operatively coupled to the auxiliary patient support section to expand the auxiliary patient support section;
a user interface having a display; and
a controller to be coupled to the expander and the user interface, wherein the controller is configured to display a predetermined sequence of graphical animations on the display to graphically instruct a user to perform a plurality of tasks after the user selects the second width on the user interface and before the controller operates the expander to expand the overall width of the expandable patient support from the first width to the second width, wherein the controller is configured to instruct the user to perform the plurality of tasks by displaying each of the graphical animations of the predetermined sequence at least once before the controller operates the expander to expand the overall width of the expandable patient support, wherein the predetermined sequence of graphical animations includes a deck expansion animation to instruct the user to expand deck sections of the litter to accommodate the expandable patient support at the second width and a fastener release animation to instruct the user to release the one or more fastening elements to allow the auxiliary patient support section to expand away from the main patient support section.