1468 results about "Gas-filled tube" patented technology

Apparatus (90) is provided for use in a stomach of a subject. The apparatus includes a balloon (92), adapted for placement in the stomach, and all anchor (102), coupled to the balloon. The anchor is adapted to prevent the balloon from passing into a duodenum of the subject. The apparatus further includes an inflation tube (96), coupled to the balloon to permit inflation of the balloon, and is adapted to stretch from the stomach to a mouth of the subject to facilitate inflation of the balloon. Other embodiments are also described.

A compression adjustable fabric and / or garment, system, and / or method can include a compression element (a) integrated into a fabric structure, (b) having a compressive pressure capability independent from compressive pressure capabilities inherent in the fabric structure, and (c) adjustable to provide various compressive pressures. In such a garment, the compressive pressure provided by the garment can be adjusted in all or part of the garment while the garment is being worn. The compressive pressures in different parts of the garment may be independently adjustable. The compression element can further comprise an inflatable tube and / or an electrically stimulatable yarn. The compression element can be integrated into the fabric structure by being knit into, or laid in, the fabric structure.

The invention relates to a safe and environment-friendly method for protecting storage tanks to mainly solve the problems that in the prior art, the gas consumption of nitrogen protection is excessively large, cost is high, and sulfur-containing gas and other peculiar smell gas are hard to treat. According to the safe and environment-friendly method for protecting the storage tanks, the gas produced by liquid in the storage tanks enters a compressor (18) through a main gas pipe (19) and an inflation pipe (21), the gas is pressurized by the compressor (18) and stored in a buffering tank (5) to serve as one part of positive-pressure protection gas, when the gas stored in the buffering tank (5) cannot meet the positive-pressure protection of all storage tanks, the nitrogen from a nitrogen inlet pipeline (22) is used for performing supplementation, and when the pressure stored in the buffering tank (5) exceeds the designed pressure, the residual gas is sent to a torch or combustion furnace through a torch or combustion furnace leading pipeline (22), the problems are well solved through the technical scheme, and the method can be used in storage tank protection.

A first channel is formed in the side of a first diffusion plate which is on that side of a gas inlet tube and a recess is formed in the side which is on that side of an electrode plate. The first channel and the recess communicate with each other through a plurality of inlet ports. The first channel and the inlet ports form a gas flow passage L which leads to the recess from the gas inlet tube. As a process gas supplied from the gas inlet tube passes through the gas flow passage L, it is supplied, dispersed, to a hollow portion formed between the recess and the electrode plate.

The present invention is for a vehicle having an air bag system for impact restraint. The air bag system includes a gas emitting inflator for emitting inflation gas upon receiving a signal of an impact, a fill tube having a fill end in fluid communication with the inflator to port the inflation gas from the inflator, and an air bag cushion in fluid communication with the fill tube to receive the inflation gas from the fill tube and deployable in an interior space adjacent to a seat upon the impact. The air bag system also includes a tether operable to both a restricted and unrestricted length in conjunction with a dual depth mechanism. The air bag system may further include a vent operable to both an open and a closed state in conjunction with the dual depth mechanism.

Balloon apparatus to access bodily lumen of a patient are disclosed. The balloon apparatus include an inflation tube, a core wire and a balloon. The balloon is secured to a distal end of the inflation tube and a core wire extending from the distal end of the inflation tube passes through a sleeve in the balloon. A proximal tube may be provided at the proximal end of the inflation tube. The balloon apparatus may be configured with a relatively small diameter using aspects of the present inventions.

A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.

The present invention provides safety apparatus for a multi-blade aircraft, comprising an expandable and collapsible parachute assembly having a plurality of inflatable tubes, a plurality of electrically triggered gas generators connected to a support surface of a multi-blade aircraft, and an on-board control unit for initiating triggering of said plurality of gas generators, wherein an outlet end of each of said plurality of gas generators is connected to, and in fluid communication with, a bottom end of one of said plurality of tubes, allowing said parachute assembly to be fully expanded upon generation of inflating gas by each of said plurality of gas generators.

A vest including inflatable tubes or chambers which receive cool air from a blower box. The vest includes an outer surface and inner surface, the two surfaces joined to define a multiplicity of tubes. The tubes carry jets which may vent cool air, received from a remote cool air blower box. The jets will ventilate the skin of the wearer both where it is exposed and where the skin is covered by the garment itself.

According to one embodiment a method of making optical fibers comprises: (i) manufacturing a core cane; (ii) situating a plurality of microstructures selected from rods, air filled tubes and glass filed tubes and placing said microstructures adjacent to the core cane, said microstructures forming no more than 3 layers; (iii) placing the core cane with said adjacent microstructures inside a holding clad tube; and (iv) placing interstitial cladding rods inside the holding (clad) tube, thereby forming an assembly comprising a tube containing a core cane, a plurality of microstructures and interstitial cladding rods. The assembly is then drawn into a microstructured cane and an optical fiber is drawn from the microstructured cane. According to several embodiments, the method of making an optical fiber includes providing at least one air hole and at least one stress rod adjacent to the core.

The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for plating a surface of a semiconductor workpiece (wafer, flat panel, magnetic films, etc.) using a liquid conductor that makes contact with the outer surface of the workpiece. The liquid conductor is stored in a reservoir and pump through an inlet channel to the liquid chamber. The liquid conductor is injected into a liquid chamber such that the liquid conductor makes contact with the outer surface of the workpiece. An inflatable tube is also provided to prevent the liquid conductor from reaching the back face of the workpiece. A plating solution can be applied to the front face of the workpiece where a retaining ring / seal further prevents the plating solution and the liquid conductor from making contact with each other. In an alternative embodiment, electrical contacts may be formed using an inflatable tube that has either been coated with a conductive material or contains a conductive object. The inflatable tube further provides uniform contact and pressure along the periphery of the workpiece, which may not necessarily be perfectly flat, because the tube can conform according to the shape of the periphery of the workpiece. Further, the present invention can be used to dissolve / etch a metal layer from the periphery of the workpiece.

The invention discloses a synchronous deployment mechanism for a folding inflating expansion type solar panel substrate, and the synchronous deployment mechanism relates to a solar panel substrate deployment mechanism. Aimed at solving the problems of the prior solar panel substrate deployment mechanism that the reliability is bad, the volume is large, the weight is heavy, the cost is high, and the synchronous deployment performance is low, an inflation driving pipe and an inflation guiding pipe are arranged above and below the solar panel substrate, a pair of mutually meshed gears is respectively arranged at the upper end and the lower end, both of which are positioned between the two adjacent solar panel substrates, the two ends of a connecting rod are sleeved on the gear shafts of each pair of gears, each pair of gears is connected with the adjacent solar panel substrate, a connecting ring pillar sleeved on the inflation driving pipe is fixedly connected with the inflation driving pipe, a connecting ring pillar sleeved on the inflation guiding pipe is glidingly matched with the inflation guiding pipe, connecting shafts are arranged in the connecting ring pillars, the external end faces of the connecting shafts are fixedly connected with the solar panel substrates, and a gas source is communicated with the inflation driving pipe and the inflation guiding pipe. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, light weight, high folding efficiency, good reliability and synchronous deployment.

The invention discloses a novel water sample-sediment joint sampling device, comprising a connection tube; a sampling control handle is fixed at the upper end of the connection tube, the lower end of the connection tube is movably connected with a water sampling tube, the water sampling tube, a transition tube and a sediment sampling tube are connected in sequence, the inside of the water sampling tube is divided into a plurality of independent closed compartments by partitions, the upper and lower ends of one side of each closed compartment are provided with a water inlet and a water outlet respectively, an area corresponding to each water inlet is provided with a balloon that is communicated with an external gas source through an inflating tube, the lateral side of the upper end of the sediment sampling tube is provided with a water outlet, a cut-off device is movably connected to the bottom of the sediment-sampling tube, the upper and lower ends of the transition tube are provided with water outlets respectively, a sealing operation rod penetrates the connection tube and the water sampling tube, the upper end of the sealing operation rod penetrates the sampling control handle and fixedly connects with the sealing control handle, the middle of the sealing operation rod penetrates a retaining plate in the water sampling tube, and the lower end of the sealing operation rod is movably connected with a seal piston in the transition tube. The invention also discloses a sampling method using the sampling device.

The invention consists in an inflatable ultralight parachute deployable before jumping, for jumping or releasing a load from any altitude, without experiencing unduly harm from the impact with the ground. It comprises at least one torus-shaped inflatable tube covered by a thin film substantially flat shroud whose buoyance lifts the parachute and when pulled down by the gravity of the attached body develops the braking force that decelerates its fall. The ultralight parachute is deployed either by the jumper if he has one, or by emergency helpers on the ground and subsequently lifted to the potential jumper. Optional accessories that enhance the braking force of the parachute and attenuate the impact of the attached body with the ground, include an aerodynamically shaped inversed skirt surrounding the torus-shaped tube, an electro-mechanical reel that upon activation shortest the distance between the jumper and the canopy and an air mattress that floats beneath the jumper's feet for reducing the impact of the fall when hitting the ground.

The invention discloses a carbon dioxide supplementary device of microalgae culture pond, which comprises the following parts: aerating groove area I, aerating groove area II, carbon dioxide aerating pipe, air aeration pipe, carbon dioxide supplying system, air supplying system and brack, wherein the aerating groove is next to the culture pond; the aerating groove area I connects the culture pond through channel as well as the aerating groove area II; one end of carbon dioxide aeration pipe connects the carbon dioxide supplying pipe; one end of air aeration pipe connects the air supplying pipe with a block of baffle in the aeration groove. The invention improves the carbon dioxide absorbance and utilizes the carbon dioxide effectively, which possesses obvious economical and environmental benefit.

A vest including inflatable tubes or chambers which receive cool air from a blower box. The vest includes an outer surface and inner surface, the two surfaces joined to define a multiplicity of tubes. The tubes carry jets which may vent cool air, received from a remote cool air blower box. The jets will ventilate the skin of the wearer both where it is exposed and where the skin is covered by the garment itself.

An inflation system (10, 110, 120, 130) for a balloon catheter assembly (12) includes an inflation tube (22), the first end of which is connectable to an inflation fluid reservoir (24, 30) and the second end of which is connectable to and opens into an inflatable cuff (20) on a main catheter (14) of the balloon catheter assembly, to permit the fluid reservoir to be in fluid communication with the cuff. A fluid reservoir is connectable to the inflation tube and is fillable with cuff inflation fluid only to a predetermined, fixed volume, to thereby permit no more than such volume of fluid to be transferred from the reservoir to the cuff during use of the system, to prevent over-inflation of the cuff and thereby avoid potential trauma to the patient.

A mattress and temperature control system for preventing pressure ulcers is provided. The mattress and temperature control system may include at least two chambers that may be alternately pressurized to each independently support a patient's body reclined on the mattress at different times. In some embodiments, the chambers may be implemented as an inflatable tubing system including at least two inflatable tubing circuits each having inflatable tubes disposed adjacent one another in an alternating manner. The tubes may be inflated with liquid or gas fluids. The system may include a tube pressurizing control device for controlling the inflation of the at least two inflatable tubing circuits in an alternating manner. A gas permeable membrane may encapsulate the inflatable tubing system and may be used to move air between the patient and the mattress for cooling and to remove any moisture.

The invention discloses a column combined reinforced high-efficiency flotation method and flotation equipment thereof. The method comprises four processes, namely strong turbulence mineralization realized by a raw ore through mechanical stirring, static flotation realized by settled sands through counterflow mineralization, weak turbulence separation realized by bubbles through a rectification effect, as well as concentrate secondary enrichment and accurate scraping realization. In the flotation equipment, a bracket is arranged on the top of a cylinder body, a flat scraper is arranged on the lower side of the bracket; a feed pipe is arranged on a position in lower middle of the cylinder body; the outlet end of the feed pipe is connected with the lower end of a false bottom; the false bottom is connected with a rectification plate; an annular inflating pipe is arranged on the lower part of the cylinder body; a monomer rectification plate is connected to the inner wall of the cylinder body; a sleeve is sleeved outside a hollow shaft; and an impeller is connected with the lower end of the hollow shaft. By integrating the advantages of strong mineralization effect of a flotation machine and better separation environment of a flotation column, the defects of high turbulence degree of the traditional flotation machine and insufficient mineralization of the traditional flotation column can be overcome, reinforced high-efficiency flotation is realized, and adaptability to the flotation process is stronger. The column combined reinforced high-efficiency flotation method and the flotation equipment thereof can be applied to separation operation of coals, chemical minerals and the like.

The invention discloses an automatic sputum suction type artificial airway. The automatic sputum suction type artificial airway comprises an airway duct, wherein an air ventilating channel is arranged inside the airway duct, and an air inflation bag and an air inflation tube are arranged on the airway duct. The automatic sputum suction type artificial airway is characterized in that a sputum suction tube is arranged in the air ventilating channel, and a sputum suction channel is formed inside the sputum suction tube. A sputum suction system comprises a sputum collecting bottle, a sputum-pumping pump and a control circuit, wherein a sputum inlet tube and a sputum outlet tube are arranged on the sputum collecting bottle, a sputum-pumping inlet tube is arranged on the sputum-pumping pump, the sputum inlet tube is communicated with the sputum suction tube, the sputum-pumping inlet tube is communicated with the sputum outlet tube, and the control circuit controls the sputum-pumping pump to carry out sputum pumping. The automatic sputum suction type artificial airway and the sputum suction system avoid stimulation caused by an existing movable sputum suction tube to the trachea wall of a patient in the process of sputum suction, and damage caused by the existing movable sputum suction tube to trachea mucosae, overcome the defect that hypoxia is caused by removal of a respirator, and relieve pain of the patient. Medical workers only need to carry out analysis on the symptoms and the physical sign of the patient, and set relevant parameters of a device, the device can carry out automatic sputum suction, and workload and working intensity of the medical workers are reduced.

Composite hydraulic molding that results in low cost, lightweight and strong composite structures. In accordance with the process, reinforcing material, which may be a mat and / or fabric of high strength filament, is placed in a mold, an inflatable tube 34 is placed over the reinforcing material and further reinforcing material, which may be integral with the reinforcing material under the inflatable tube, is placed over the inflatable tube. The mold is closed, and a thermosetting resin is pumped into the mold. The inflatable tube 34 is then inflated with a liquid, saturating the reinforcing material and forcing any air in the mold out of one or more bleeder holes in the mold. After curing the resin, the inflatable tube 34 is deflated and removed and the mold opened to remove the molded part. Various embodiments and additional features are disclosed.

A sensor for attachment to an inflatable air cell cushion to detect a change in immersion depth and bottoming out of the user seated on the cushion. The sensor includes an airflow conduit for attachment to the cushion inflation tube. The airflow conduit comprises a cylindrical body having a longitudinal inner bore. There is an opening through the conduit body in fluid communication with the bore. A transducer is positioned at the opening to detect changes in air pressure within the airflow conduit. The transducer is operatively connected to a warning light, an audible sensor and a mode set button. The functions of the electronic components are preprogrammed into a computer chip. A battery powers the sensor. The recited components are secured within a housing.

A rescue ramp is provided having a dual lobed, hinged inflatable ramp having two pairs of spaced inflatable tubes and a flexible floor mounted between each and connecting the tubes. A rope ladder is mounted to the floors of the lobes.

The invention discloses a multistage settling and garden sewage regenerating system which comprises a flume, a blower, a precipitation treatment tank, an aeration clamping plate, a first partition board, a second partition board and a self-sucking pump, wherein the interior space of the precipitation treatment tank is divided into a subcritical flow settling region, a filtering region, a buffer region and a flocculating setting region by the aeration clamping plate, the first partition board and the second partition board, a subcritical flow slope inclining upwards is arranged at the bottom of the subcritical flow settling region, a cavity is formed inside the aeration clamping plate, an inflating pipe is arranged inside the cavity, the inflating pipe penetrates through the top of the aeration clamping plate to be connected with the blower, gate holes are formed in the two sides of the upper part of the aeration clamping plate, a composite filtering structure is arranged inside the filtering region, a flowing hole is formed in the first partition board, an overflow pipe is formed in the second partition board, the overflow pipe is positioned at the lower part of the flocculating setting region, a blow-off pipe and a water outlet pipe are arranged inside the flocculating setting region, and the water outlet pipe is connected with the self-sucking pump and connected in parallel to a flocculating agent conveying system. The multistage settling and garden sewage regenerating system provided by the invention can achieve continuous processing of garden sewage, the equipment investment is less, the running cost is low, the treatment efficiency is high, and the treatment effect is good.

The present invention generally comprises an apparatus having an RF choke and a remote plasma source combined into a single unit. Process gases may be introduced to the chamber via the showerhead assembly which may be driven as an RF electrode. The gas feed tube may provide process gases and the cleaning gases to the process chamber. The inside of the gas feed tube may remain at a zero RF field to avoid premature gas breakdown within the gas feed tube that may lead to parasitic plasma formation between the gas source and the showerhead during processing. Igniting the cleaning gas plasma within the gas feed tube permits the plasma to be ignited closer to the processing chamber. Thus, RF current travels along the outside of the apparatus during deposition and microwave current ignites a plasma within the apparatus before feeding the plasma to the processing chamber.

The invention relates to an artificial trachea cannula made of nano materials in the technical field of medical appliance and a preparation method thereof; the artificial trachea cannula comprises a respirator joint, an air supply tube, an inflation tube, an inflation gasbag, a drain pipe and a lubricant coating, wherein, the inflation tube is in the air supply tube, the output end of the air supply tube is connected with the respirator joint; an inserting section of the air supply tube is cuniform; the external wall of the air supply tube is provided with inflation gasbags; the position where the inflation tube is correspondingly arranged is provided with holes; the drain pipe is embedded on the external wall of the air supply tube and is adjacent to the inflation gasbag; the side of the drain pipe close to the inflation gasbag is provided with a liquid outlet, the other side thereof is connected with an injector; the lubricant coating is arranged on the external wall of the inflation gasbag and the air supply tube, the air supply tube and the inflation gasbag are made of modified plastics. With the method of the invention adopted, damage to lumen tissue when the tube is inserted is reduced, pain is reduced, complicating disease is prevented from occurring; in addition, the preparation process is easy and controllable, the cost is low, as a result, the method is applicable to batch production.