Controllable water floatation garment
AssigneeSafe Swim Ltd.
InventorAmir SCHECHTER
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a water floatation garment, and in particular, to such a swimming garment incorporating a fillable bladder and electronics provided to identify emergency situation such as drowning based on sensed data that causing the garment to trigger the fillable bladder to inflate allowing a user to float to surface therein preventing a drowning.
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1) A swimming garment for preventing a drowning incident, the swim garment having an integrated apparatus for identifying a potential drowning incident and for inflating at least one fillable bladder for surfacing a user, the apparatus comprising:
- a) electronic circuitry module having power module, processing module and communication module;
- said processing module provided to determine a user's drowning probability score and to initiate a response according to said drowning probability score by communicating a triggering signal to activate an inflating module that is functionally coupled with and utilized to inflate said at least one fillable bladder;
- b) said processing module functionally associated with a sensor module comprising a plurality of sensors including:
- at least one breathing sensor, at least two movement sensor, a depth sensor, a pressure sensor, and a water sensor;
- wherein said processing module provides for processing data provided from said sensor module to determine said drowning probability score;
- characterized in that:
- i) said at least two movement sensors are provided in the form of an accelerometer disposed about a portion of the garment corresponding to the arm's sleeves;
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- ii) said breathing sensor is provided in the form of a belt configured to measure changes in thoracic and/or abdominal circumference during respiration;
- and characterized in that said movement sensors are configured to detect drowning based on the movement of a user's arms
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