Foldout Bed Module

• US 20070251165A1
• Filed: 05/31/2005
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hill-Rom Services Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hill-Rom Services Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Inventors: Kramer, Kenneth, Le Roy, Frederic, Chance, Richard, Kern, Julie, Carver, Nathan, Laloge, Dennis
• Application Number:
  US11/628,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20070251165A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/173.100
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 17/52 Cabinet beds; Table beds, or like beds; Wardrobe beds
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/005 mounted on the wall
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/05 Parts, details or accessories of beds devices for prevention against falling out A47C21/08, A47D7/00 ; mattresses A47C27/00

Abstract

A foldout bed module for use in a healthcare facility includes a plurality of service connectors and a foldout bed. The foldout bed has a deck movable between a raised storage position and a lowered use position. The service connectors are normally concealed behind the deck when the deck is in the storage position.

Claims

1. A foldout bed module for use in a healthcare facility, the foldout bed module comprising a plurality of service connectors and a foldout bed, the foldout bed including a deck movable between a raised storage position and a lowered use position.

2. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the service connectors comprise any one or more of electrical outlets, medical gas outlets, vacuum outlets, and communication ports.

3. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the service connectors are concealed behind the deck when the deck is the storage position.

4. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the foldout bed module includes a panel movable between a first position hiding at least some of the service connectors from view and a second position allowing access to the service connectors.

5. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the deck includes longitudinally spaced apart head, seat and leg sections, which are tiltable relative to each other, and the deck is movable from a generally coplanar bed configuration to an articulated chair configuration.

6. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the foldout bed module includes a jump seat coupled to a bottom surface of the deck and movable between a raised storage position and a lowered use position.

7. The foldout bed module of claim 6, wherein the bottom surface of the deck includes a seat-receiving cavity to receive the jump seat when the jump seat is in the storage position.

8. The foldout bed module of claim 7, wherein a bottom surface of the jump seat is substantially flush with the bottom surface of the deck when the jump seat is received in the seat-receiving cavity.

9. The foldout bed module of claim 6, further comprising a cushion coupled to an upper surface of the jump seat.

10. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the foldout bed module includes a plurality of casters coupled to a bottom wall of the foldout bed module.

11. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the foldout bed module includes a plurality of casters coupled to a side wall of the foldout bed module.

12. The foldout bed module of claim 11, wherein the casters are coupled to the side wall by a mounting assembly, and the mounting assembly is movable between a storage position where the casters are facing inwardly and a use position where the casters are facing outwardly.

13. The foldout bed module of claim 12, wherein the side wall includes a mounting assembly-receiving cavity to receive the mounting assembly when the mounting assembly is in the storage position.

14. The foldout bed module of claim 13, wherein an outwardly facing surface of the mounting assembly is substantially flush with an outwardly facing surface of the side wall when the mounting assembly is in the storage position.

15. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the foldout bed module includes at least one guide coupled to a side wall of the foldout bed module and extending generally along a height dimension of the foldout bed module.

16. The foldout bed module of claim 1, wherein the foldout bed module forms a portion of a modular wall in a healthcare facility, the modular wall comprises a plurality of frame units configured to form a grid of vertically and laterally spaced apart wall spaces having a predetermined height and a predetermined width, and the foldout bed module is positioned in one of the wall spaces.

17. A foldout bed module for use in a healthcare facility comprising a foldout bed having a deck movable between a raised storage position and a lowered use position and a jump seat coupled to a bottom surface of the deck and movable between a raised storage position and a lowered use position.

18. A conference room in a healthcare facility comprising a plurality of foldout bed modules arranged along a wall of the conference room, each foldout bed module comprising a plurality of service connectors and a foldout bed including a deck movable between a raised storage position and a lowered use position.

19. A modular wall in a healthcare facility comprising:

a plurality of frame units configured to form a grid of vertically and laterally spaced apart wall spaces having a predetermined height and a predetermined width, and

a foldout bed module positioned in one of the wall spaces to form a portion of the modular wall, the foldout bed module comprising a plurality of service connectors and a foldout bed, the foldout bed including a deck movable between a raised storage position and a lowered use position.

20. The modular wall of claim 19, wherein each frame unit has a plurality of connection points spaced apart from each other by a predetermined height and a predetermined width to form a grid, and the foldout bed module is coupled to at least one of the connection points.

21. The modular wall of claim 20, wherein the foldout bed module has a width substantially equal to a multiple, including one, of the predetermined width and having a height substantially equal to a multiple, including one, of the predetermined height.

22. The foldout bed module of claim 19, comprising a reading light module positioned in one of the wall spaces next to the bed.

23. The foldout bed module of claim 19, comprising a monitor module positioned in one of the wall spaces next to the bed.

24. The foldout bed module of claim 19, comprising an overbed table module positioned in one of the wall spaces next to the bed.

25. The foldout bed module of claim 19, comprising a storage module positioned in one of the wall spaces next to the bed.

26. The foldout bed module of claim 19, comprising a computer module positioned in one of the wall spaces next to the bed.