TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS

**Definition:** This place covers:

Specially adapted vehicles (e.g. ambulances, wheelchairs), handling apparatus (e.g., wheelchair lifts), or methods or devices (e.g., stretchers) for moving patients or disabled persons or deceased who are passive participants in their relocation (e.g., the persons are handled in a manner similar to loads) [also including user-propelled wheelchairs].

Personal conveyances

Specially adapted structures (e.g., hospital or treatment rooms for medical purposes, baby incubators) or devices (e.g., bedpans, hospital beds, trapeze or pull-up bars) used:

by patients or disabled persons for their personal physical needs and convenience or

for controlling the local environment of patients or disabled persons during treatment or recovery.

Specially adapted supporting surfaces for sustaining patients in a recumbent or seated position during recovery, surgery, dental work, or similar types of medical treatment.

Funeral devices

(e.g., coffins, caskets, urns, and associated attachments and accessories thereof)

Auxiliary appliances (e.g., trolleys for medicine) or accessories specially adapted for use with the other invention information covered by this subclass.

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Devices per se for enabling disabled persons to operate an apparatus or device not forming part of the body -> A61F4/00 - Equipment for beds, treatment tables, floor frames or the like for extending or stretching -> A61F5/04 - Restraining devices for the body or for body parts and restraining shirts that are used for non-surgical treatment of patients' bones or joints -> A61F5/37 - Appliances for aiding invalids to walk about -> A61H3/00 - Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes -> A61H33/00 - For bicycles specially adapted for disabled riders -> B62K3/16 - Cycles with more than two main road wheels -> B62K5/00 - Inclined lifts associated with stairways for transporting disabled persons or wheelchairs -> B66B9/08 - Illumination of operating tables -> F21L , F21S , F21V

**Glossary:** - Disabled person: a human being that is unable to do a basic physical task (e.g., walking) due to a physical or mental impairment/condition - Funeral device: apparatus associated with (e.g., coffin) or for performing (e.g., casket lowering device) activities connected with the burial, cremation, entombment, or other methods of honouring or disposing of (e.g., freeze drying) the remains of the body of a deceased individual - Patient: a human being awaiting or undergoing any form of (a) medical care (e.g., testing) or treatment by medical staff (e.g., doctors, dentists, midwifes, chiropractors) or (b) physical tending (e.g., feeding) by caretakers (e.g., hospice or nursing home staff) due to impairment - Personal conveyance: a vehicle-like device (e.g., wheelchairs) that is: not specifically adapted for travelling significant distances (e.g., between cities) along thoroughfares (e.g., railways, roads, sidewalks) with normal traffic (e.g., trucks), explicitly designed (i.e., not merely adaptations of a standard production vehicle) for carrying, and intended to be limited to use by, a single patient or disabled person at any given time, andpotentially capable of having either its movement controlled or powered by the patient or disabled person carried by it.