A controller and a method for controlling casters attached to a movable part such as a hospital bed, for switching the castors between a state in which the castor is pivot locked and rotationally blocked, and a state in which there is neither a pivot locking nor a rotational blocking, additionally switchable into a state in which the caster is only pivot locked, actuatable electrically and also manually, movement sensor. Multiple switching states may be automatically and sequentially assumed in a predetermined sequence, a first switching state in which there is neither a pivot locking nor a rotational blocking, which a second switching state, in which one or more or all castors are pivot locked, however not rotationally blocked, and finally a switching state, in which all switchable casters are again pivot locked and rotationally blocked.
CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CASTERS ATTACHED TO A MOVABLE PART
2024-06-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
MOVABLE OBJECT CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOVABLE OBJECT
European Patent Office | 2016
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