Safety Device and Inflating Apparatus Therefor
AssigneeZactill Intellectual Property Pty Ltd
InventorDavid John Ashard
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Abstract
A safety device including an article to be worn by a user and an inflatable bladder which is in use attached to the article. The safety device further includes an inflating apparatus for in use inflating the inflatable bladder with an inflating product. The inflating apparatus includes an inflating product compartment for storing the inflating product and a frangible valve for deterring flow of the inflating product from the inflating product compartment. An actuator is provided for rupturing the frangible valve thereby allowing inflating product to flow from the inflating product compartment to the inflatable bladder.
Claims17
1-22. (canceled)
An inflating apparatus adapted to be placed in fluid communication with an inflatable bladder, the inflating apparatus comprising:
- an inflating product compartment for storing an inflating product;
- a valve assembly for deterring flow of the inflating product from the inflating product compartment;
- an actuator for opening the valve assembly to allow inflating product to flow from the inflating product compartment to inflate the inflatable bladder;
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- a sensor assembly operatively associated with the actuator, wherein the actuator is adapted to open the valve assembly responsive to measurements taken by the sensor assembly, thereby to allow inflating product to flow to the inflatable bladder.
A safety device including;
- an inflatable bladder which is in use attached to an article to be worn by a user;
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- an inflating apparatus for in use inflating the inflatable bladder with an inflating product, the inflating apparatus comprising;
- an inflating product compartment for storing the inflating product;
- a valve for deterring flow of the inflating product from the inflating product compartment;
- an actuator for opening the valve to allow inflating product to flow from the inflating product compartment to the inflatable bladder;
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- a sensor assembly operatively associated with the actuator, wherein the actuator opens the valve assembly responsive to measurements taken by the sensor assembly to allow inflating product to flow to the inflatable bladder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.