Medical Platform With Adjustable Hook Elements For Stretcher Attachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Emergency medical equipment requires quick and secure attachment to stretchers during transport, with the need for adaptability to different stretcher dimensions and easy cleaning and sterilization, which existing solutions fail to adequately address.
Innovation Solution
A platform with hook elements connected via a pull-out guide, allowing for secure and flexible attachment to stretcher longitudinal bars of varying widths and cross-sections, featuring a spring-loaded mechanism for easy adjustment and locking, and a design that facilitates cleaning and sterilization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If hook elements are fixed to the base body, then the attachment structure is simple, but the platform cannot adapt to different stretcher widths
Solution Approach 1:
The hook elements are made movable relative to the base body through pull-out guides, allowing them to be positioned at different locations depending on the stretcher width. This dynamic configuration enables the platform to adapt to various stretcher dimensions while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If hook elements are movable to adapt to different positions, then adaptability improves, but the attachment security may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The spring element automatically pushes the movable hook elements into the engagement position with the stretcher longitudinal beams, creating a positive connection without requiring additional locking mechanisms. The system self-regulates to ensure secure attachment while maintaining adjustability.
3Productivity
If the platform requires quick attachment and removal, then emergency response time improves, but the connection robustness may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The spring elements are pre-loaded to automatically engage the hook elements with the stretcher longitudinal beams upon attachment. This preliminary action ensures that the robust connection is established immediately when the platform is attached, without requiring additional steps, thus maintaining both speed and strength.
4Ease of operation
If the hook elements are spring-loaded for automatic engagement, then ease of operation improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The spring-loaded mechanism is integrated into the base body structure, with the spring elements and pull-out guides forming a compact unit. This extraction of the complex mechanism into a self-contained system simplifies the overall device while maintaining ease of operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables rapid, secure, and adaptable attachment of medical devices to stretchers, ensuring a resilient fit and ease of cleaning and sterilization, enhancing handling and safety in emergency situations.
Implementation Method 1
at least one of the hook elements is displaceable relative to the base body against the spring force of a spring element
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AI summary
A platform (1) for medical equipment is proposed that can be flexibly used in a wide variety of emergency medical applications. This platform enables a positive-locking connection between the platform (1) and, for example, the longitudinal beams (43) of a patient stretcher (41).