AUTOMATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR TRANSPORTING AND SUPPORTING PATIENTS
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods are described for moving a patient to and from various locations, care units, etc., within a care facility. For example, a transport and support vehicle includes a body structure including a plurality of rotatable members operable to frictionally interface the vehicle to a travel path and to move the vehicle along the travel path, and a surface structured and dimensioned to support an individual subject. A transport and support vehicle can include, for example, an imager operably coupled to one or more of a power source, a steering assembly, one or more of the plurality of rotatable members, etc., and having one or more modules operable to control the power source, steering assembly, one or more of the plurality of rotatable members, etc., so as to maintain an authorized operator in the image zone.
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198 Claims
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88. A self-propelled hospital bed navigation control system, comprising:
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an operator-guided vehicle navigation controller including one or more sensors operable to detect at least one human operator within an operator-guide zone associated with a self-propelled operator-guided hospital bed having a bedframe structure including a surface configured to support an individual subject, a plurality of rotatable members operable to frictionally interface the vehicle to a travel path and to move the vehicle along the travel path, a steering assembly operable to vary a steering angle of at least one of the plurality of rotatable members, a power source, and a motor for driving one or more of the plurality of rotatable members; and an operator movement mapping module operably coupled to the operator-guided vehicle navigation controller and to at least one of the plurality of rotatable members, the power source, and the motor; the operator movement mapping module configured to map one or more physical movements of the human operator within the operator-guide zone to at least one input correlated with one or more navigation control commands for controlling the self-propelled operator-guided vehicle, and generate a control signal to at least one of the plurality of rotatable members, the power source, and the motor to navigate the self-propelled operator-guided vehicle based on the one or more navigation control commands. - View Dependent Claims (89, 95, 98, 104, 108, 110, 117, 121, 190, 191, 192, 193)
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194. A self-propelled hospital bed navigation control system, comprising:
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an operator-guided vehicle navigation controller including one or more sensors operable to detect at least one human operator within an operator-guide zone associated with a self-propelled operator-guided hospital bed having a bedframe structure including a surface configured to support an individual subject, a plurality of omnidirectional rotatable members operable to frictionally interface the vehicle to a travel path and to move the vehicle along the travel path, a power source, and a motor for driving one or more of the plurality of omnidirectional rotatable members; and an operator movement mapping module operably coupled to the operator-guided vehicle navigation controller and to at least one of the plurality of rotatable members, the power source, and the motor; the operator movement mapping module configured to map one or more physical movements of the human operator within the operator-guide zone to at least one input correlated with one or more navigation control commands for controlling the self-propelled operator-guided vehicle, and generate a control signal to at least one of the plurality of omnidirectional rotatable members, the power source, and the motor to navigate the self-propelled operator-guided vehicle based on the one or more navigation control commands. - View Dependent Claims (195, 196, 197, 198)
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Specification