EP3064186B1 - Procédé et système pour l'ajustement d' hauteur de support de brancard auto-chargé dans des véhicules de sauvetage et véhicule de sauvetage équipé avec dit système. - Google Patents

Procédé et système pour l'ajustement d' hauteur de support de brancard auto-chargé dans des véhicules de sauvetage et véhicule de sauvetage équipé avec dit système. Download PDF

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EP3064186B1
EP3064186B1 EP16159046.8A EP16159046A EP3064186B1 EP 3064186 B1 EP3064186 B1 EP 3064186B1 EP 16159046 A EP16159046 A EP 16159046A EP 3064186 B1 EP3064186 B1 EP 3064186B1
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    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G3/00—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
    • A61G3/02—Loading or unloading personal conveyances; Facilitating access of patients or disabled persons to, or exit from, vehicles
    • A61G3/06—Transfer using ramps, lifts or the like
    • A61G3/065—Transfer using ramps, lifts or the like using an adjustable suspension lowering device for the whole vehicle
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G3/00—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
    • A61G3/08—Accommodating or securing wheelchairs or stretchers
    • A61G3/0816—Accommodating or securing stretchers
    • A61G3/0866—Accommodating or securing stretchers on height adjustable support
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    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
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    • A61G2203/30—General characteristics of devices characterised by sensor means
    • A61G2203/40—General characteristics of devices characterised by sensor means for distance
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G3/00—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
    • A61G3/02—Loading or unloading personal conveyances; Facilitating access of patients or disabled persons to, or exit from, vehicles
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  • the present invention relates to the field of equipment for rescue vehicles, such as ambulances, for the transportation of injured, ill or disabled people on stretchers, to receive said patients in a health compartment and carry them to a hospital.
  • the invention is designed to optimize the loading and unloading steps of the so-called self-loading stretchers, where this term means beds provided with retractable legs and swivel wheels, used solely for loading the patient on the vehicle, for example from the patient's home to the rescue vehicle.
  • Ambulances usually carry the injured person on a self-loading stretcher in turn positioned inside the health compartment.
  • the self-loading stretcher is kept into position by the interposition of a support resting on the deck of the vehicle compartment.
  • the purpose of the support is to also allow positioning the patient prone and sloping and moving him/her laterally and vertically into the health compartment, always keeping him/her lying on the stretcher.
  • a drawback of the systems that currently employ self-loading stretchers occurs if the support surfaces of the vehicle and the stretcher are not the same, or if the height of the support changes from the ideal condition due to changes related to the wear of the vehicle.
  • the design conditions take into account and adjust the position of the support inside the vehicle deck as a function of the height of the stretcher required for the automatic opening and closing thereof.
  • the object of the present invention is to obviate the above technical drawbacks by providing a loading system which takes into account and also controls the actual height of the support from the ground as a function of the support surface of the self-loading stretcher when it is outside the vehicle, ready for being introduced onto the support or for being picked from the support.
  • a first advantage is being able to ensure a proper loading and unloading height of the self-loading stretcher even when conditions are outside the design parameters.
  • the conditions may vary both due to variations that may affect the vehicle over time, such as tires, shock-absorbers etc., and due to "immediate” variations due to interventions carried out with the stretcher or vehicle in non-standard conditions.
  • the invention provides a method for adjusting the height of the support inserted in the health compartment, according to claim 1, an adjustment which provides the vertical variation of the stretcher support with respect to the deck of the health compartment; such an adjustment is established and is a function of the position of the self-loading stretcher when positioned outside the vehicle, a position corresponding to the loading and unloading surface; this value is measured with respect to a reference on the vehicle or on the support; once this value has been obtained, it is compared with that required for opening and closing the self-loading stretcher with respect to the support in the vehicle.
  • a system for the height-adjustment of the support (with respect to the internal deck) can be controlled by manual or automatic actuation means, specifically electrical.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide at least one means capable of detecting said position of the loading/unloading surface of the stretcher and communicating the detected value(s) to a control unit, which generates an alarm signal to the operator who can thus control the lowering or lifting of the support adjustment system and restore the correct conditions for loading/unloading the self-loading stretcher.
  • Said determination of the surface height value is carried out by means of one or more optical or infrared sensors, which can be positioned on the vehicle and arranged so as to point to said loading/unloading area.
  • the detected signal is treated and processed, alongside any other reference values of the fixed type, so as to determine the required value.
  • the invention may provide that, in case of electrical control, once the existence of a condition of stretcher support height not consistent with the ideal one has been established, in addition to an alarm the system may also generate a restoration by automatically controlling the lifting and lowering to the new correct condition.
  • the support-deck lifting system also includes one or more electric control units communicating with sensors and motors in order to maintain the correct mutual height between the support and the self-loading stretcher.
  • the loading and unloading height of the stretcher is suitable for opening and closing thereof.
  • Another object of the invention is the motor vehicle for first aid and transportation of injured or ill people, comprising a support for self-loading stretchers in the rear stretcher loading compartment and means for adjusting the height thereof with respect to the internal deck of the compartment itself, as a function of the height of the stretcher surface once the latter is situated outside the stretcher in loading or unloading conditions.
  • the vehicle comprises height detection sensors which measure the height in order to carry out the comparison with the reference parameters and determine whether the loading and unloading steps of the self-loading stretcher comply with the required procedures.
  • the invention allows establishing different heights of the support with respect to the deck and always allowing the optimal introduction or extraction of the self-loading stretcher.
  • reference numeral 1 indicates as a whole a stretcher support to be installed in health compartments of rescue vehicles such as ambulances.
  • the figure only shows a partial view of a vehicle 5, an ambulance, and precisely its health compartment 4, its rear deck 2, where the emergency service staff operates and where the patient on stretcher 12 is accommodated.
  • the injured person is carried on a stretcher; in the case of a self-loading stretchers, an intermediate element is always used which is defined precisely by the term stretcher-support 1.
  • stretcher-support 1 Normally resting on deck 2 of the vehicle compartment 5, the support keeps stretcher 12 into position and allows possible positioning of the patient prone and sloping, or moving him/her laterally inside the health compartment, always keeping him/her lying on the stretcher.
  • the stretcher support has a substantially parallelepiped shape geometry. Its surface 6 is adapted to support preferably a self-loading stretcher 12, while the lower one 7, in operating configuration, faces deck 2.
  • the invention is embodied in the introduction of a stretcher support handling system.
  • the system is indicated with reference numeral 10.
  • Support 1 and system 10 cooperate with each other, so as to allow the adjustment of the distance between support 1 and the internal deck of the vehicle.
  • the adjustment means of the adjustment system 10 can be electrically and/or manually controlled.
  • a motor M provides for adjusting system 10 in extension or retraction, so as to adjust the height of the support with respect to the internal deck of the compartment, as a function of the height of the vehicle and/or support with respect to the support surface of the self-loading stretcher 12, when this is in loading/unloading position outside vehicle 5.
  • the reference value is determined with respect to a reference on the vehicle or on the support; said value is compared with that required for opening and closing the self-loading stretcher with respect to the support into the vehicle.
  • the invention is completed by using at least one optical or infrared sensor 8 for determining a parameter defined as the vertical distance between the support and an external reference on the ground, corresponding to the loading/unloading area of the self-loading stretcher.
  • the sensor or sensors are fixed and positioned on the vehicle so as to directly point the defined loading/unloading area 9.
  • the detected signal is treated and processed by a control unit 12, alongside any other reference values of the fixed type, so as to determine the required height value.
  • Figure 2 shows that the sensor can detect the shorter distance of area 9 compared to figure 1 ; in fact, there is a step that lifts stretcher 12 with respect to the ideal condition. In this way, system 10 is lifted to restore the ideal distance condition and allow the insertion of the stretcher into the compartment, and especially the extraction step preventing dangerous jibbing of the legs.
  • the invention provides the power connection and supply also for a light area arranged around the perimeter of support 1.
  • the advantage is a better diffusion of light into the health compartment for the patient, who in this way does not receive direct light when lying on the stretcher.
  • the invention provides the power connection and supply to a light point or area arranged under the rear slide, normally provided, of the stretcher support.
  • the advantage is to facilitate loading the self-loading stretcher.
  • the motor vehicle for first aid and transportation of injured or ill people comprises:
  • the above adjustment occurs by monitoring the height of the vehicle and support with respect to the support surface of the self-loading stretcher in a loading/unloading position, considering the parameters required for opening and closing the self-loading stretcher with respect to the support.
  • stretcher support it is noted that one of the different possible models currently employed is described and taken as example herein, and the invention generically includes all supports, such as those provided with freedom of lateral displacement, those provided with internal compartments for storing objects.
  • the method for the height-adjustment of stretcher supports positioned in health compartments of rescue vehicles and for supporting self-loading stretchers provides for the manual or automatic adjustment of the height of the support inserted in the health compartment with respect to the internal deck of the compartment itself; the adjustment occurs as a function of the height of the vehicle or support with respect to the area support surface of the self-loading stretcher in a loading/unloading position; said value being established with respect to a reference on the vehicle or on the support; said value is compared with that required for opening and closing the self-loading stretcher with respect to the support in the vehicle.
  • the adjustment of the vertical height between the stretcher support and the deck of the health compartment occurs by determining a parameter defined as the vertical distance between the support and an external reference on the ground, corresponding to the loading/unloading area of the self-loading stretcher.
  • the adjustment can be done:
  • the determination of the height is carried out through optical or infrared sensors, which can be positioned at one point of the vehicle and arranged so as to point the loading/unloading area; the detected signal is treated and processed, alongside any other reference values of the fixed type, so as to determine the required height value.
  • the optimal parameter that defines the correct height of the support with respect to the self-loading stretcher (open at the side of the vehicle) is established by taking into account, among the others:
  • the optimal parameter may be written or shown on the stretcher support or on the vehicle should the vehicle be provided with means for the only mechanical adjustment of the support.

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  1. Procédé de réglage de la hauteur des supports de brancard (1) positionnés dans des compartiments sanitaires (4) de véhicules de sauvetage (5) et de support des brancards autoportants (12), dans lequel le réglage manuel ou automatique de la hauteur du support inséré dans le compartiments sanitaire est réalisé par rapport à la couverture interne (2) du compartiment (4), le réglage étant effectué en fonction de la hauteur du véhicule et/ou du support par rapport à une zone (9) ou à une surface de support extérieure du brancard autoportant (12) dans une position de chargement; ladite hauteur étant déterminée par rapport à une référence sur le véhicule ou sur le support; caractérisé en ce que ledit procédé comprend:
    * détermination d'une valeur de hauteur définie comme la distance verticale entre le support (1) et une référence externe par rapport au sol, correspondant à la zone de chargement/déchargement (9) du brancard autoportant (12), ladite détermination de la valeur de la hauteur de la surface étant effectuée au moyen d'un ou plusieurs capteurs optiques ou infrarouges;
    * comparaison de ladite valeur avec celle nécessaire pour ouvrir et fermer le brancard autoportant par rapport au support dans le véhicule;
    * réglage de la hauteur du support par rapport à la couverture interne du compartiment, le réglage étant effectué:
    a. manuellement par des moyens d'actionnement manuels, ou
    b. automatiquement par des moyens d'entraînement électriques.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les capteurs optiques ou infrarouges peuvent être positionnés en un point du véhicule et disposés de manière à faire face à la zone de chargement/déchargement, le signal détecté étant traité et élaboré, ainsi que tout autre valeur de référence d'un type fixe, afin de déterminer la valeur de hauteur requise.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, comprenant en outre une communication de la valeur déterminée à une unité de commande et une génération, au moyen de ladite unité de commande, d'un signal d'alarme dans le cas où la valeur de hauteur déterminée est différente d'une valeur idéale de la hauteur de chargement et déchargement du brancard autoportant, au-dessus ou à partir de son support.
  4. Support de brancard (1) à installer dans des compartiments sanitaires de soins de véhicules de sauvetage tels que des ambulances, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend un système électrique (10) pour régler la distance entre le support (1) et la couverture interne du véhicule dans lequel il est positionné, dans lequel les moyens de réglage du système (10) peuvent être commandés électriquement, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend en outre
    * au moins un capteur optique ou infrarouge (8) pour déterminer une valeur de hauteur définie comme la distance verticale entre le support et une référence externe par rapport au sol, correspondant à la zone de chargement/déchargement du brancard autoportant;
    * lesdits un ou plusieurs capteurs étant fixés et positionnés sur le véhicule, de manière à faire face directement à la zone de chargement/déchargement définie;
    * un signal détecté en cours de traitement et d'élaboration, ainsi que toute autre valeur de référence fixe, afin de déterminer la valeur de hauteur requise, où la distance entre le support (1) et la couverture interne du véhicule dans lequel il est positionné est ajustée en conformément à ladite distance verticale entre le support et la référence externe par rapport au sol.
  5. Support de brancard (1) selon la revendication 4, comprenant en outre une unité de commande, qui reçoit ladite valeur de hauteur déterminée et génère un signal d'alarme pour l'opérateur dans le cas où la valeur de hauteur déterminée est différente d'une valeur idéale de la hauteur de chargement et déchargement du brancard autoportant, au-dessus ou à partir de son support.
  6. Véhicule automobile de premiers soins (5) pour le transport de personnes blessées ou malades, comprenant au moins un compartiment de chargement arrière pour un brancard, définie par une couverture et au moins un support de brancard relatif selon la revendication 4 ou 5.
  7. Véhicule automobile selon la revendication 6, comprenant au moins une zone libre agencée autour du périmètre du support (1), pour diffuser la lumière à l'intérieur du compartiment pour le patient, dans lequel le système électrique de fonctionnement du levage fournit de l'énergie à ladite au moins une seule zone libre.
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