Acceleration protective suit
AssigneeG-Nius Ltd.
InventorAndreas Reinhard
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AssigneeG-Nius Ltd.
InventorAndreas Reinhard
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The altitude-optimized, pressurized suit consists of a sheath of a sparingly expansible textile material. This sheath has fastened in it, and on it, by sewing, adhesive bonding or welding, compartments which are formed by virtue of the sheath being doubled, in that a strip of textile material is applied to the inside, or in the second case to the outside, of the sheath, and therefore it is connected to the sheath if only along its periphery. These compartments likewise consist of textile materials, in the first case of the same material as the sheath, and in the second case of an expansible knitted fabric. Flexible tubes-which expand under pressure are introduced into these compartments. The first-mentioned compartments act as “spacers” for tightening the suit over the topography of the wearer's body. The second-mentioned compartments act as “muscles” and press locally onto the wearer's body.
An acceleration protective suit for pilots of high-performance aircraft comprising a covering for a wearer made of stretch-resistant textile material, where at least parts of the covering comprise two walls and thus form compartments on inner and outer sides of the covering, where air tubes consisting of flexible and stretchable plastic are inserted in the compartments, and these air tubes are configured to be supplied with acceleration-dependent air pressures and thus are configured to be stretched as bladders, wherein the suit is equipped with at least two different types of compartments with air tubes for forming air bladders, namely a first type with compartments acting as spacers, the spacer compartments each comprising a first side made of an elastic textile fabric or knitted fabric facing the wearer, and a second opposite side made of an inelastic material, and which has loose air tube inside the spacer compartment, so that a contour is formed when compressed air is supplied to the air tube, which in turn differs from the spacer compartment containing it, the air tube inside the spacer compartment having a smaller volume than the spacer compartment interior, and a second type with compartments acting as muscles, where the muscle compartments are clung inside with tube material in their inner side, so that the muscle compartments and air tubes always have a same contour, and in addition there is a pressure bladder in the protective suit, which is located in an area proximal to the wearer's abdomen and to which all air tubes are connected, communicating freely with all air tubes in all compartments, whereby the pressure bladder has at least one main valve to which compressed air supply of the acceleration protective suit is configured to be connected and which is set up in such a way that it closes, if the compressed air supply pressure and/or pressure in cockpit drops.
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