Portable Patient Transfer Lift
Product Overview
The Portable Patient Transfer Lift is a modular, transportable lifting system designed to assist wheelchair users and mobility-impaired individuals with transfers between a wheelchair and a bed. Unlike conventional floor lifts or permanently installed ceiling-track systems, the invention is designed to disassemble into compact components, travel with the user, and be rapidly assembled at the destination without permanent building modifications.
The Market Need
For individuals who require lifting assistance, travelling away from home can be difficult because hotels, vacation properties and other temporary accommodations may not have suitable patient-transfer equipment. Conventional floor lifts can be large and difficult to transport, while ceiling-mounted systems typically require permanent installation. This can leave caregivers performing physically demanding manual transfers.
The Solution
The invention combines a sectional overhead support frame, movable trolley, battery-powered lifting mechanism and sling-based patient support assembly into a portable system that can be assembled over a bed, used to transfer an individual, and subsequently disassembled for transportation.
The disclosed system provides several commercially attractive features:
- Portable design intended for travel and temporary accommodations.
- Approximately five-minute assembly with no hand tools required in the disclosed embodiment.
- Compact storage in a wheeled carrying case approximately 11″ × 11″ × 42″.
- Rechargeable battery-powered lifting with provision for a spare battery and charger.
- Adjustable overhead span to accommodate different bed widths, including queen and king configurations.
- Lightweight sectional aluminum construction designed to balance strength with portability.
- No permanent installation or structural modification to the accommodation.
- Overhead trolley system allowing the lifted individual to be repositioned between wheelchair and bed.
The submitted drawings further illustrate the sectional structural components, lifting equipment, patient-support components and compact transportation arrangement.
Target Markets
The Portable Patient Transfer Lift has potential applications in the mobility, home healthcare, patient-handling, rehabilitation and accessible-travel markets. Potential customers include wheelchair users and caregivers, while potential licensing partners include patient-lift manufacturers, mobility-equipment companies, durable medical equipment suppliers, home healthcare companies and accessibility-product manufacturers.
Hotels, vacation properties and other temporary accommodations represent an especially compelling application because the system is specifically designed to provide transfer capability in locations where permanent lifting equipment may be unavailable.
Licensing Opportunity
The invention offers established healthcare and mobility-equipment manufacturers an opportunity to expand into a travel-oriented patient-transfer category using a system designed around portability, compact storage and rapid deployment.
A licensee could potentially utilize its existing manufacturing, safety engineering, patient-lift technology and distribution infrastructure to commercialize the concept for both consumer and institutional markets.
Core Value Proposition
Patient-transfer capability that travels with the user.
The Portable Patient Transfer Lift is designed to give mobility-impaired individuals and their caregivers access to essential transfer equipment beyond the home—helping make travel, temporary accommodation and everyday mobility more accessible and practical.