Resources Contact Us Home Browse by: INVENTOR PATENT HOLDER PATENT NUMBER DATE     Bed having patient warming apparatus Image Number 5 for United States Patent #5251347. A hospital bed has an articulated patient support surface with four air outlet housings mounted thereon at spaced locations. An air supply arrangement supplies temperature-controlled air to an air outlet opening in each of the housings. Associated with each housing is an elongate tubular fabric diffusion member having an O-ring which encircles one end thereof and is removably received in a circumferential groove in the air outlet opening. Each diffusion member can be tucked completely into its housing when not in use. Each housing has a cap movable between open and closed positions with respect to the air outlet opening, and an arrangement yieldably urging the cap toward its closed position. A valve arrangement is provided below two of the housings in order to automatically discharge fluids which happen to enter the air supply system through the air outlet openings. In a variation, two of the elongate diffusion members can be replaced with an inflatable underlay or overlay having two inlet sleeves with O-rings which are each releasably coupled to a respective one of the air outlet devices.       Recently Added Patents Stateful switching between reliable transport modules for communicating with an external peer without losing the transport layer connection Thermoconductive composition, heat dissipating plate, heat dissipating substrate and circuit module using thermoconductive composition, and process for production of thermoconductive compositi Backside-illuminated image sensor and fabricating method thereof Cloud-based healthcare information exchange Layout method for soft-error hard electronics, and radiation hardened logic cell Irradiation with high energy ions for surface structuring and treatment of surface proximal sections of optical elements Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer program   Randomly Featured Patents Liquid crystal optical element having grouped concentric electrodes Image forming apparatus Sliding mail box indicator Method and means for initializing a page mode memory in a computer Self-cleaning pre-filter system Progressive ophthalmic lens with positive distance power Large print books and method for producing the same from regular size books Pneumatic flow station Rear wheel steering apparatus Heat-reclaiming system © 2006-2008 PatentGenius. All Rights Reserved.