Tablet Mount With Quick-Release Adapter for Secure Patient Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current solutions for securing equipment, such as tablets, during patient transportation are inadequate, failing to provide secure restraint, ease of access, and quick release, often resulting in equipment being placed on patients instead.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a tablet support unit and an adaptor unit that securely attaches a tablet to a support surface using interengageable mechanisms, allowing easy installation and removal without tools, and enabling adjustable positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If equipment is secured to prevent injury and damage during transportation, then safety is improved, but access to equipment and patient may be restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment system is divided into separate components: a support surface with attachment mechanisms and equipment with corresponding engagement features. This segmentation allows the equipment to be securely attached when needed while enabling quick release and easy access when required, resolving the contradiction between safety and accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment system transitions from a static fixed state to a dynamic reversible state. The equipment can be rapidly attached and detached from the support surface, allowing the system to adapt between secured transportation mode and accessible usage mode, thereby maintaining both safety and ease of access.
2Stability of the object's composition
If equipment is made secure and restrained during transportation, then stability is improved, but installation and removal become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces complex mechanical fastening mechanisms with a simplified attachment system using complementary geometric features (protrusions and recesses) that engage through straightforward insertion and removal actions. This substitution maintains secure restraint during transportation while dramatically simplifying installation and removal operations.
3Ease of operation
If equipment is placed on patients during transportation, then accessibility is maintained, but patient comfort and safety are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The support surface (such as a stretcher or cart) serves as an intermediary structure between the equipment and the patient. By mounting equipment on this separate support surface rather than directly on the patient, the system maintains equipment accessibility while eliminating the harmful effect of equipment placement on patient comfort and safety.
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AI summary
A system for attaching an equipment to a support surface, the system comprising: an equipment support unit having an equipment body support portion to support a body of the equipment, an adaptor unit for attaching the equipment support unit to the support surface, the adaptor unit comprising: an adaptor equipment support portion having: an adaptor equipment support attachment mechanism configured to releasably attach the equipment support unit to the adaptor unit, and an adaptor support surface portion configured to attach the adaptor unit to the support surface; and a release mechanism for releasing the attachment of the tablet support unit to the adaptor unit.