EMERGENCY VEHICLE PATIENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

• US 20140062118A1
• Filed: 11/21/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ferno-Washington Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Ferno-Washington Incorporated
• Inventors: Bourgraf, Joseph G., Wells, Timothy Robert, Schroeder, Timothy Paul
• Granted Patent: US 9,027,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 1/02 with wheels
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 1/06 Supports for stretchers, e.g. to be placed in or on vehicles A61G1/0293 takes precedence; supports fixed to a vehicle A61G3/02 - A61G3/08
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2203/723 Impact absorbing means, e.g. bumpers or airbags
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/00 Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/001 Vehicles provided with medical equipment to perform operations or examinations
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/003 Supplementary seats, e.g. for doctors to take care of a patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/02 Loading or unloading personal conveyances; Facilitating access of patients or disabled persons to, or exit from, vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/0218 Loading or unloading stretchers transfer using ramps, lifts or the like A61G3/06 - A61G3/066; accommodating or securing wheelchairs or stretchers A61G3/08 - A61G3/0891
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/0816 Accommodating or securing stretchers support for stretchers independent from vehicle A61G1/06; loading stretchers A61G3/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/0866 on height adjustable support
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 3/0875 Securing stretchers, e.g. fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/04 the whole seat being movable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0735 Position and orientation of the slide as a whole
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0742 rotated about the vertical axis
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0745 the slide path being curved
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/10 tiltable B60N2/12 , B60N2/2875 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/12 slidable and tiltable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/24 for particular purposes or particular vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/3015 the axis being located at the top of the back-rest
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/34 into a bed
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/4242 : vertical
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/4279 : electric or electronic triggering
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/43 : Safety locks for back-rests B60N2/433
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/643 : shape of the back-rests B60N2/66 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/646 : shape of the cushion
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/68 : Seat frames
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/688 : Particular seat belt attachment and guiding
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/803 : fixed
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/885 : provided with side-rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/986 : Side-rests B60N2/2872, B60N2/885 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/995 : Lower-leg-rests, e.g. calf-rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2002/247 : to support passengers in a half-standing position

Abstract

Emergency vehicle patient transport systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, an emergency vehicle patient transport system includes: a loading passage providing access to an interior of an emergency vehicle; one or more tracks coupled to a floor of the emergency vehicle, a ceiling of the emergency vehicle, a wall of the emergency vehicle or combinations thereof wherein, a travel path is delineated by the one or more tracks; and a chair slidingly engaged with the one or more tracks, and vertically positioned between the floor and the ceiling. The chair locks in one or more set positions. And, the one or more set positions are selected from a group consisting of an airway care position, an extended airway care position, a procedural care position, a responder position, a patient care position, and a patient load position.

Claims

1. An emergency vehicle patient transport system comprising:

a loading passage providing access to an interior of an emergency vehicle;

one or more tracks coupled to the interior of the emergency vehicle wherein, a travel path is delineated by the one or more tracks;

a chair slidingly engaged with the one or more tracks, and vertically positioned between a floor and a ceiling of the interior of the emergency vehicle, wherein the chair comprises a curved vertical member and a seat, and wherein;

the curved vertical member forms a curve between the floor and the ceiling of the interior of the emergency vehicle;

the curved vertical member partially surrounds the seat; and

the seat tilts with respect to the curved vertical member.

2. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein:

the chair comprises a seat support member engaged with the curved vertical member; and

the seat comprises a posterior support coupled to the seat support member.

3. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 2 wherein:

the curved vertical member comprises a channel; and

the seat support member is slidingly engaged with the channel of the curved vertical member.

4. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 2 wherein, the seat comprises a torso support slidingly engaged with the seat support member, and wherein the torso support slides towards the floor of the emergency vehicle, the ceiling of the emergency vehicle, or both with respect to the posterior support.

5. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 2 wherein, the seat comprises a contoured head support slidingly engaged with the seat support member, and wherein the contoured head support slides towards the floor of the emergency vehicle, the ceiling of the emergency vehicle, or both with respect to the posterior support.

6. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 2 wherein, the seat comprises a lap bar disposed above the posterior support, and wherein the lap bar partially surrounds an aperture about the posterior support.

7. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 6 wherein, the seat comprises a hip grabber rotatably joined with the lap bar, wherein the hip grabber rotates with respect to the lap bar to an open position and a closed position.

8. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 7 wherein:

the seat comprises a sliding upper body member and a harness;

the sliding upper body member is slidingly engaged with the seat support member and disposed above the posterior support; and

the harness extends between the hip grabber and the sliding upper body member.

9. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 8 wherein, the lap bar comprises a hip actuator, and wherein the hip actuator transitions the hip grabber from the open position to the closed position automatically.

10. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein, the chair comprises an earphone, an audio microphone, a video feed or combinations thereof.

11. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein, the chair comprises a video feed coupled to the curved vertical member and located above the seat.

12. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein the chair comprises a knee member for supporting the legs of an occupant that extends and retracts from the seat.

13. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 12 wherein, the chair comprises a knee actuator that extends the knee member from the seat in sync with tilting of the seat.

14. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein, the chair comprises a tilt control that enables or disables tilting of the seat.

15. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein, the seat slides with respect to the curved vertical member.

16. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein, the chair swivels with respect to the one or more tracks.

17. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein, the chair locks in one or more set positions.

18. The emergency vehicle patient transport system of claim 1 wherein, the one or more tracks is coupled to the floor of the emergency vehicle.