1093 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Driver safety module (10) of a vehicle equipped with a vehicle steering wheel (110) movable between a driving position and a retracted or stowed position, the driver safety module (10) comprising:- a safety airbag (20), inflatable and comprising at least one front portion (21), arranged to deploy from a rest position to a protection position,- a gas generator (30) arranged to inflate the safety airbag (20), characterized in that the driver safety module (10) comprises an adaptive device arranged to adjust an inflation volume of the front portion (21) as a function of the driving position or the retracted or stowed position of the vehicle steering wheel (110). Figure for abstract: Fig. 1

The present disclosure provides a mattress system comprising one or more inflatable air chambers, one or more movable units disposed within the air chambers, and a control unit. The movable units are equipped with sensors and actuators. The control unit is operatively connected to the air chambers and the movable units. The control unit is configured to independently inflate and deflate the air chambers to adjust pressure distribution across a surface supporting a human body, and to control movement and operation of the movable units based on data from the sensors. The system enables localized monitoring and treatment of the human body to prevent and treat pressure ulcers.

An occlusion system implantable in a human or animal body, including a fluidic circuit which includes an inflatable occlusive sleeve, a reservoir with variable volume filled with a fluid. The reservoir includes a fixed portion and a movable portion, an actuator mechanically coupled with the movable portion of the reservoir to linearly displace the movable portion relative to the fixed portion for adjusting the volume of the reservoir. The actuator and the reservoir are laid out in a sealed casing containing a gas. A sensor mechanically bound to the actuator and / or to the movable portion, measures a traction and / or compressive force of the movable portion of the reservoir. Also included is a device for measuring the fluid pressure in the fluidic circuit.

The utility model discloses an inflatable lumbago rehabilitation device, and belongs to the technical field of auxiliary rehabilitation equipment. The inflatable lumbago rehabilitation device comprises two inflatable bag cloth belts, a mounting plate is fixedly connected between the two inflatable bag cloth belts, a rear connecting box is fixedly connected to the outer surface of the rear side of the mounting plate, a reciprocating lead screw is rotationally connected between the inner walls of the two sides of the rear connecting box, and a transmission block is in threaded connection with the reciprocating lead screw; the top of the transmission block is fixedly connected with two connecting rods; according to the inflatable lumbago rehabilitation device, the two pressing rollers periodically and repeatedly move close to each other and away from each other and move back and forth relative to the waist of a user, the two pressing rollers massage the waist and the back of the user in all directions and at multiple angles, and a dynamic massage mode can more effectively relieve muscular tension compared with a static massage mode; and the waist massage can be automatically carried out at any time and any place, so that the symptom of lumbago can be greatly relieved.

A fluidic artificial muscle actuator may include at least one inflatable bladder defining a first inflatable segment coupled to a first member and to a second member arranged at opposite ends of the first inflatable segment, and a second inflatable segment coupled to a third member and to a fourth member arranged at opposite ends of the second inflatable segment, and an effector coupled to the first inflatable segment and to the second inflatable segment for providing an actuator output. The first inflatable segment is configured to contract in a longitudinal direction with increase in fluid pressure in the first inflatable segment and the second inflatable segment is configured to extend in the longitudinal direction with increase in fluid pressure in the second inflatable segment.

The utility model provides an air bag device for construction of a cross-fault tunnel foam concrete buffer layer. The air bag device comprises an inflatable flexible air bag, a first annular closed steel formwork and a second annular closed steel formwork. The first annular closed steel formwork and the second annular closed steel formwork are arranged at the two ends of the inflatable flexible air bag. An inflation connector is arranged at one end of the inflatable flexible air bag, and a first filling pipeline and a second filling pipeline are arranged on the first annular closed steel formwork and the second annular closed steel formwork. The construction efficiency is remarkably improved on the premise of not losing the shock absorption and isolation performance of the foam concrete, one-time forming is achieved, the construction quality is guaranteed, and the cost is saved; in addition, due to the reusable characteristic of the air bag device, the construction cost is further reduced, and the problems that in a traditional construction method, efficiency is low, the seismic mitigation and isolation performance of the expanded excavation section foam concrete buffer layer is difficult to guarantee, and cost is high are solved.

The present invention provides a container (200) comprising a container body (202) which forms an internal cavity for receiving content. The container (200) has an opening (236) through which the content is able to be inserted to and removed from the internal volume. A closure (204), which may be in the form of a lid, is movable with respect to the container body (202) between a closed position in which it closes the opening (236) and an open position in which the opening (236) is uncovered. A locking member (280) is movable between a lock position and an unlock position and is configured when in the lock position to lock the closure in its closed position. Moving the locking member to the unlock position releases the closure (204) to open the container. Inflatable dunnage (256) is provided in the internal volume and is configured to be inflated by injection of fluid, which may be gas. An exhaust port (290) communicates with the inflatable dunnage and is provided with an exhaust port shutoff arrangement (278) having a closed state in which it closes the exhaust port (290) and an open state in which it opens the exhaust port. The locking member (280) is configured to cooperate with the exhaust port shutoff arrangement (278) such that moving the locking member from its lock position to its unlock position causes the exhaust port shutoff arrangement (278) to change from its closed state to its open state, whereby pressure in the inflatable dunnage is automatically released through the exhaust port prior to opening of the container.

A toy car tire includes a tire main body and a filler core. The tire main body includes an inner cavity and a first opening. The inner cavity is surrounded and formed by a side wall of the tire main body, and the first opening is in communication with the inner cavity. The filler core is inserted into the inner cavity through the first opening. The filler core is configured for filling the inner cavity. Therefore, the filler core is capable of filling the inner cavity of the tire main body to support the tire main body, making the tire main body fuller and less prone to deformation. Moreover, compared with an inflatable tire, since the inner cavity is filled with the filler core, the toy car tire is not afraid of being punctured. Even if punctured, the tire main body of the tire is still full.

An inflatable decoration system and method comprising an inflatable decoration that deploys from and deflates into a decorative box, eliminating the eyesore aspect of inflatable holiday yard decorations of the past.

A reusable system for shipping objects is disclosed. The system includes a container and an inflatable and / or deflatable bladder. The inflatable and / or deflatable bladder is configured to be inserted and / or removed from a cavity defined by an outer shell and inner lining of the container. The inflatable and / or deflatable bladder is configured to inflate to protect objects inside the container, and also to deflate to move the system to a substantially compact configuration.

According to one aspect, an aerostat may include an inflatable structure including a balloon and a neck collectively defining a volume, a valve including a funnel supportable in the neck and defining a first opening, a second opening, and a cavity therebetween, the cavity in fluid communication with the volume via the second opening, a stem defining a channel at least partially outside of the inflatable structure, a stopper disposed in the cavity, a rod coupled to the stopper and at least partially disposed in the channel, and an actuator electrically actuatable to move the rod relative to the channel such that the stopper moves relative to the first opening of the cavity to control fluid communication between the volume and the channel via the cavity.

A blood vessel blocking spiral device comprises an air inflation device and a pinch-off device connected with the air inflation device. The pinch-off device comprises a spiral guide wire and a strip-shaped inflatable air bag attached to the spiral guide wire, and an annular strip-shaped contact surface is formed after the air bag is inflated; in each spiral of the spiral guide wire, the diameter of each circle is 2.5-3.0 cm, and the distance between every two circles is 0.5-1.5 cm. And the strip-shaped inflatable air bag and the guide wire are arranged in parallel or annularly wound on the guide wire.