10.03.24
Gavin M. Monson, Oxford, OH; Jason M. Williams, Corydon, IN; and Douglas A. Seim, Okeana, OH.
Assigned to Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN.
Filed: 3/8/21
Issued: 7/30/24
A system for detecting and locating an incontinence event comprising a patient support apparatus configured to support a patient thereon, an incontinence detection pad including a substrate and an incontinence detection grid coupled to the substrate, and a communications system including a wireless tag coupled removably to the incontinence detection pad and configured to sense one or more electrical characteristics of the detection grid, a wireless module coupled to the patient support apparatus and having an antenna to receive signals from the wireless tag including the one or more electrical characteristics sensed by the wireless tag, and circuitry coupled to the patient support apparatus configured to provide a transmission of data signals to a nurse call station including incontinence signals indicative of the occurrence of an incontinence event based on the one or more electrical characteristics, wherein the wireless tag is a clip-on wireless tag, wherein the wireless tag includes a housing and an attachment lever coupled to the housing, and wherein the attachment lever is moveable between an opened position in which the attachment lever is at least partially spaced from the housing, and a closed position, in which the attachment lever provides a compressive force on the incontinence detection pad, and wherein the attachment lever includes a flexible flange such that the attachment lever is configured to deform relative to the housing from the closed position to the opened position and is normally biased toward the closed position.
Assigned to Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN.
Filed: 3/8/21
Issued: 7/30/24
A system for detecting and locating an incontinence event comprising a patient support apparatus configured to support a patient thereon, an incontinence detection pad including a substrate and an incontinence detection grid coupled to the substrate, and a communications system including a wireless tag coupled removably to the incontinence detection pad and configured to sense one or more electrical characteristics of the detection grid, a wireless module coupled to the patient support apparatus and having an antenna to receive signals from the wireless tag including the one or more electrical characteristics sensed by the wireless tag, and circuitry coupled to the patient support apparatus configured to provide a transmission of data signals to a nurse call station including incontinence signals indicative of the occurrence of an incontinence event based on the one or more electrical characteristics, wherein the wireless tag is a clip-on wireless tag, wherein the wireless tag includes a housing and an attachment lever coupled to the housing, and wherein the attachment lever is moveable between an opened position in which the attachment lever is at least partially spaced from the housing, and a closed position, in which the attachment lever provides a compressive force on the incontinence detection pad, and wherein the attachment lever includes a flexible flange such that the attachment lever is configured to deform relative to the housing from the closed position to the opened position and is normally biased toward the closed position.
