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US 11,392,150 B2Granted
Inflator with automatic shut-off functionality
AssigneeStopak India Pvt. Ltd.
InventorsSunil Konantambigi, Ryan Fowler
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electronic inflator configured to direct pressurized air into an inflatable object, to monitor the air pressure inside the inflatable object, and to automatically stop directing pressurized air into the inflatable object after determining that the air pressure inside the inflatable object has reached a preset pressure.
Claims20
An inflator comprising:
- a housing;
- an air director supported by the housing and defining an air conduit fluidically connectable to an inflatable object;
- a pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure within the inflatable object;
- a trigger movable from a rest position to an actuated position to fluidically connect an air inlet to the air conduit;
- a movement limiter movable between a lock position in which the movement limiter prevents the trigger from moving from the rest position to the actuated position and a release position in which the movement limiter does not prevent the trigger from moving from the rest position to the actuated position;
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- a controller configured to cause the movement limiter to move from the lock position to the release position responsive to the pressure within the inflatable object being less than a preset pressure.
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A method of operating an inflator to inflate an inflatable object, the method comprising:
- detecting, by a pressure sensor, a pressure within the inflatable object;
- monitoring, by a controller, the pressure within the inflatable object;
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- responsive to the pressure within the inflatable object being less than a preset pressure, causing, by the controller, a movement limiter to move from:
- (1) a lock position in which the movement limiter prevents a trigger from moving from a rest position to an actuated position to fluidically connect an air inlet to the air conduit;
- to (2) a release position in which the movement limiter does not prevent the trigger from moving from the rest position to the actuated position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.