1833 results about "Inflatable" patented technology

The invention provides a concentric circle filling device and an application method in mass concrete crack control, and belongs to the technical field of hydraulic structures. The concentric circle filling device comprises a pipe body structure, the pipe body structure comprises an outer pipe body and an inner pipe body, the outer pipe body and the inner pipe body are coaxially arranged in a sleeved mode, and an annular area between the outer wall of the inner pipe body and the inner wall of the outer pipe body serves as a first storage space; an inner cavity of the inner tube body serves as a second storage space; the inner tube body is sleeved with an inflatable annular air bag, and when the annular air bag is not inflated, the annular air bag can slide up and down along the inner tube body; after the annular air bag is inflated, one end of the first storage space can be completely sealed and plugged; an air bag ball is arranged in the inner tube body, and after the air bag ball is inflated, one end of the second storage space can be completely sealed and plugged. The method is implemented based on the concentric circle filling device and is applied to mass concrete crack control. Cracks generated by the gate pier can be effectively controlled, and meanwhile the integrity of the structure is improved.

The invention relates to an inflatable lighting body comprising an inflatable gas-tight inner sleeve, an outer sleeve which is translucent at least in some regions and which surrounds the inner sleeve, means for attaching at least one lighting means to the lighting body in such a manner that the lighting means emits light into the interior of the lighting body and dispenses light outwards as diffused light via translucent regions of the outer sleeve, and optionally securing means for mounting the lighting body, wherein a lighting tube or a lighting panel can be attached to the inflatable lighting body as the lighting means, and the means for attaching the lighting means are designed such that lighting means or luminaires of different shapes and sizes can be selectively attached to the lighting body. According to the invention, the means for attaching the lighting means to the lighting body comprise one or more strips which surround the lighting means or the luminaire in the secured state thereof. The lighting body according to the invention has a flexible application and can be used in a versatile manner, and the user is not limited to using the lighting means provided by the manufacturer of the lighting body when selecting the lighting means.

A system including a pool apparatus and an inflatable pool cover is disclosed. The pool apparatus includes a first tank positioned within a second tank, creating an air gap. The second tank includes pipe receiving sections. The pipe receiving sections facilitate the passage of pipes. The pipes circulate water through a closed-loop system and direct it into the first tank. The first tank stores water and maintains its temperature. The inflatable pool cover includes a valve that is configured to inflate the inflatable pool cover. The inflatable pool cover positions over the pool apparatus when not in use, and prevents dust and debris from entering the pool apparatus. The inflatable pool cover includes rings and handles. The handles facilitate the placement and removal of the inflatable pool cover from the pool apparatus. The rings are configured to secure the inflatable pool cover to the pool apparatus.

Systems and methods are provided for a portable air compressor comprising an electric battery, an electric motor, a piston, and an air hose. The electric motor is powered by the electric battery. The piston is coupled to and driven by the electric motor. The piston is configured to compress air within a piston cylinder. The air hose has a first end attachable to an air outlet of the piston cylinder and a second end attachable to an inflatable object. The portable air pump is configured to inflate the inflatable object to a target air pressure. When the target air pressure is below a predetermined pressure threshold, the portable air pump inflates the inflatable object at a first inflation rate. When the target air pressure is above the predetermined pressure threshold, the portable air pump inflates the inflatable object at a second inflation rate greater than the first inflation rate.

An apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle includes an airbag configured to be mounted at a mounting location on a vehicle mounting structure. The airbag includes a front wall configured to receive the occupant, inflatable sidewalls connected to the front wall, and an inflatable rear cushion. The sidewalls are configured to extend from the front wall to a throat of the airbag at the mounting location. The front wall and the sidewalls delimit a non-inflatable central space located behind the front wall and between the sidewalls. The rear cushion is positioned in the central space between the throat and the front wall.

A reconfigurable inflatable pickup truck box cover includes a base frame, a side wall system operatively connected to the base frame, and a top wall operatively connected to the side wall system. At least one of the base frame, the side wall system, and the top wall is inflatable.

The present application discloses an inflatable bed including a hollow bed body. The hollow bed body includes a top sheet, a perimeter wall, a bottom sheet, and tensioning straps, the top sheet and the bottom sheet cover the perimeter wall up and down, inner supporting assemblies are disposed inside the bed body, each of the inner supporting assemblies includes an inner supporting structure and a breathable mesh, the top of the inner supporting structure is fixed to an inner wall of the top of the bed body, a side wall of the inner supporting structure is fixed to an inner side wall of the bed body, the inside of the bed body is partitioned into an independent main cavity and an auxiliary cavity, the breathable mesh is mounted on the side wall of the inner supporting structure, and the main cavity communicates with the auxiliary cavity.

A hovering air fort containing an inflatable housing having an open base defined by a periphery surrounding the opening, one or more apertures, wherein one of the apertures is for receiving air flow for inflation and wherein the other aperture is for connecting a second hovering air fort and a cord hemmed into the periphery of the open base forming a hemmed opening or at least one connecting panel is affixed to at least two side walls about the open base periphery of the inflatable air fort, wherein the air flow through the aperture provides structure and lift for the inflatable housing when the periphery of the open base is positioned against an external surface to create the hovering air fort.

Devices, systems, and methods are directed to controlling lifting gas in a volume defined by an inflatable structure of an aircraft. For example, controlling lifting gas in the volume of the inflatable structure may account for variations in ambient and tactical conditions experienced by the aircraft over the course of flight, as may be useful for lifting the aircraft to a target altitude and / or carrying out a particular mission. Additionally, or alternatively, controlling lifting gas in the volume of the inflatable structure may facilitate lifting the aircraft using lifting gas generated by reacting stable materials with one another at a launch site in the field. As an example, aluminum may react with water to form a lifting gas including hydrogen and steam. As the steam condenses to water in the inflatable structure, a valve may expel water from the inflatable structure to assist in maintaining buoyancy of the aircraft.

A wearable airbag device having at least one inflatable bag including a first side and a second side defining a gas inflatable volume therebetween. The at least one inflatable bag includes a plurality of airflow passages defined between said first side and second side.

A process of forming an elongated enclosed pathway containing the steps of forming an inner structure containing at least one inflatable tube and forming an outer structure comprising a narrow woven cylinder. The narrow woven cylinder contains a plurality of warp yarns, a plurality of weft yarns, and at least one catch yarn. The weft yarns have a repeating stitch pattern containing a knit stitch with a catch yarn, stitching with the warp yarns in a counterclockwise direction around the circumference, a knit stitch with a catch yarn, and stitching with the warp yarns in a clockwise direction around the circumference. The forming of the narrow woven cylinder is concurrent with inserting the at least one inflatable tube into the narrow woven cylinder and wherein the narrow woven cylinder is woven around the at least one inflatable tube.

An expandable probe for filling a water tank in an aircraft from a body of water includes an inflatable hose having a proximal end fixed with a housing in the aircraft, a distal end fixed with a scooping head, an elastomeric internal conduit, and an inflatable bladder substantially surrounding the conduit. The conduit has a proximal end in communication with the water tank of the aircraft and a distal end fixed with a water scoop of the scooping head. An air supply is adapted to inflate and extend the inflatable hose to an extended configuration extending outside an open rear end of the housing below the lower side of the aircraft. Lowering the aircraft allows the scooping head to contact the body of water such that water enters the scoop and travels up the conduit to the water tank.

The present disclosure describes an inflatable pool. The inflatable pool includes an inner wall and an outer wall, which are connected along a first welding seam to form a first inflatable chamber; and a bottom sheet, which is connected to the outer wall along a second welding seam. The inflatable chamber and the bottom sheet define a water containing cavity. The present disclosure may effectively prevent wrinkling of the bottom sheet after the inflatable pool is inflated.

A wearable protection device, including a protective helmet with at least one first inflatable chamber for moving between a rest condition in a deflated status and an operating condition in an inflated status, and a wearable element including an inflator unit and an activation system to trigger the inflator unit if a danger situation for the user of the wearable protection device is identified. The wearable element includes at least one second inflatable chamber for moving between a rest condition when in deflated status and an operating condition when in inflated status. The inflator unit is connected to the first inflatable chamber and / or the second inflatable chamber. The inflator unit inflates the first inflatable chamber and / or the second inflatable chamber in the operating condition when a danger situation for the user of the wearable protection device is identified by the activation system.

A refuge shelter includes a container. The shelter includes a tent that is disposed in the container in an undeployed state. The tent includes an inflatable support structure which is inflatable from an undeployed state in the container to a deployed state, and a seal which seals the tent to the container in a deployed state. The support structure has a plurality of hoses interconnected by couplers. The hoses have an inside diameter of less than 5 inches. A gas flow apparatus. A refuge shelter for miners in a mine includes a container and a tent that is disposed in the container. The tent has a test support to which a sample of the external environment can be obtained from inside the tent when the tent is deployed. A method for providing a refuge chamber for miners in a mine.

An inflatable paddle board includes a board body which is inflatable and a central balancing fin which is configured to be provided at a bottom of the board body, the central balancing fin increases the surface area in contact with the water, so as to provide additional lateral resistance, and this added resistance stabilizes the paddle board, making it less prone to tip over, and also maintain a straight trajectory by reducing the lateral drift.

A vehicle includes a vehicle roof and an airbag supported by the vehicle roof. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag defines an inflation chamber in the inflated position. The airbag includes a distal end below the vehicle roof in the inflated position. The vehicle includes an inflatable device supported by the vehicle roof. The inflatable device is a thermoplastic elastomer and inflatable to an inflated position. The inflatable device is in the inflation chamber of the airbag when the inflatable device and the airbag are in the inflated positions. The inflatable device includes a distal end in the inflation chamber of the airbag. The distal end of the inflatable device is below the vehicle roof and above the distal end of the airbag in the inflated position.

An inflatable cushion structure includes an inflatable cushion, a connecting unit, and a separating material unit. The inflatable cushion includes a upper surface layer, a lower surface layer, and multiple air passages. The connecting unit is mounted in each of the air passages and includes a first connecting member provided with multiple first transverse slits and a second connecting member provided with multiple second transverse slits. The separating material unit includes multiple separation plates each having a left end passing through one of the first transverse slits and a right end passing through one of the second transverse slits. Thus, the separation plates divide each of the air passages into multiple partition layers, so that the partition layers form a spacing between the upper surface layer and the lower surface layer.

An inflatable mattress for use in a vehicle is disclosed and claimed. The inflatable mattress may include a removable air pump, and a first longitudinal chamber that may include a pump cavity that receives and stores the removable air pump. The pump cavity may include a first inlet that is adapted to mate with an outlet of the removable air pump within the cavity for ready inflation of the first longitudinal chamber without removal of the air pump from the cavity. The inflatable mattress may further include a second independently-inflatable longitudinal chamber having a second inlet for mating with the outlet of the removable air pump at a second inlet location that is disposed outside of the cavity.

A side airbag device capable of preventing interference between a harness and an airbag is provided between a vehicle body and a seat. The side airbag device includes an airbag module an inflatable airbag and an inflator supplying a gas into the airbag, a base member including an airbag storage portion having a concave shape and storing the airbag module and is attached between a vehicle body door and the seat, and a retainer member holding the airbag storage portion from the rear side of the vehicle body. The base member includes a first through hole through which a harness of the inflator is inserted and a flange which is formed in the periphery of the first through hole. The retainer member includes a second through hole through which the harness of the inflator is inserted and which is provided at a position facing the first through hole.

An inflatable mattress with a hollow interior cavity is disclosed. An air mattress may include a top panel, a bottom panel, and a plurality of side panels. The air mattress may include a hollow cavity that is configured to be inflated. The air mattress may include a bumper located within the hollow cavity. The bumper may have a bottom side and a top side. The bottom side may extend uninterrupted around a perimeter of the air mattress. The top side may have a plurality of notches. Each of the plurality of notches may be configured to allow for passage of air.

An inflatable floatable sunshade is provided. Generally, the inflatable floatable sunshade includes a pentagon shaped inflatable frame forming a support for a canopy, wherein the frame is floatable when inflated. Further, the frame may include a pentagon shaped base with five vertices; five vertical tubes, each vertical tube extending from each vertex of the base; and five horizontal tubes, each horizontal tube extending between two adjacent vertical tubes and parallel to the base. The canopy or cover is not inflatable and is removably coupled to the inflatable frame, the canopy providing shade. The inflatable frame may also include six independently inflatable regions, each inflatable region having an airport.

An airbag configured to be inflated by a source of gas, the airbag being formed from first and second layers of fabric arranged in superimposition to define an inflatable chamber between the layers for the receipt of inflating gas. Each layer of fabric has a structure (e.g. a weave) comprising at least one yarn, and the two layers are interconnected by at least one tether yarn extending between the layers within the inflatable chamber. The or each tether yarn is implicated in the structure of the first layer at a plurality of first connection regions, and is implicated in the structure of the second layer at a plurality of second connection regions. Each said first connection region is wider in a length-direction of the, or each, tether yarn than each said second connection region, and said second connection regions are offset relative to said first connection regions.

The invention relates to the technical field of hemostasis devices, in particular to a rapid wound hemostasis device which comprises a binding belt, the binding belt is used for binding limbs of a person, an inflatable cavity and a first pressure sensor are arranged in the binding belt, and the first pressure sensor is installed in the inflatable cavity. The pressure monitoring device comprises an inflatable cavity used for monitoring pressure data in the inflatable cavity and a pressure adjusting assembly, the pressure adjusting assembly adjusts the pressure of gas in the inflatable cavity by inflating the interior of the inflatable cavity and exhausting the gas in the inflatable cavity, and hemostasis of a wound is achieved through an inflatable binding belt of the pressure adjusting assembly. And the bundling pressure can be adjusted through the first pressure sensor, the main control device and the pressure adjusting device, meanwhile, the bundling time can be monitored, and the effects of unbundling and re-bundling of the limbs are automatically achieved.

A garment for supporting a head of a wearer of the garment with an inflatable cushion includes a main body which is shaped and configured to be worn on a torso of the wearer and defines a neck-receiving hole. A hood is coupled to the main body adjacent to the neck-receiving hole. The hood comprises an inner layer and an outer layer, between which an inflatable cushion is held. The inflatable cushion has a U-shape and extends around the neck-receiving hole. A pair of ends of the U-shape face forwardly with respect to the hood. The inner layer of the hood extends past the inflatable cushion substantially tangent to an inner surface of the inflatable cushion when the inflatable cushion is in an inflated state.

Described are fabrics or flexible composite materials for an inflatable safety product. The fabrics or flexible composite materials may include a substrate and a metallic layer. The substrate may define a surface. The metallic layer may be completely covering or discontinuous, and the metallic layer may cover at least one surface of the substrate.

The utility model discloses a duplex three-way ball valve convenient to maintain, which relates to the field of duplex three-way ball valves, and comprises a duplex three-way ball valve main body and a connecting flange, and the duplex three-way ball valve main body and the connecting flange are integrally formed. According to the double-linkage three-way ball valve, the sealing assembly is arranged, when the double-linkage three-way ball valve body and other pipeline flanges are installed, the pipeline flanges push the pressing rods to move, the pressing rods push the pressing rings to move, and when the pressing rings move in the direction of the inflatable air bag rings, the pressing rings can extrude the inflatable air bag rings; the inflatable air bag ring is compressed, air in the inflatable air bag ring can enter the sealing air bag ring through the inflation pipe, the sealing air bag ring is expanded and moves into the sealing groove, and then the sealing performance after the pipeline and the duplex three-way ball valve body are installed is improved; and through the inflatable air bag, a user does not need to worry that the sealing performance is influenced by the reduction of the elastic performance after long-time use of an elastic structure such as a sealing ring, so that fluid leakage is avoided, and the service life of the sealing assembly is prolonged.

Systems and methods described herein relate to using silver-coated twisted-coil polymer fibers to adjust the shape of inflatable structures, such as to provide an adjustable curved projection screen. In one embodiment, a method includes providing an adjustable inflation system capable of providing an electrical stimulus to a set of fibers within an inflatable structure where the set of fibers can adjust a surface of the inflatable structure from a first state to a second state based on the electrical stimulus.

The present disclosure provides for pneumatic deicer boot assemblies, and related methods of fabrication and use. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for bartack stitched pneumatic deicer boot assemblies for aircraft or the like, with the bartack stitched pneumatic deicer boot assemblies having an inflatable carcass formed by two layers (e.g., a stretchable layer and a non-stretchable layer) stitched together using bartack stitches.