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| 20090188045 | Under-thigh support - A self-inflatable under-thigh support used in combination with a car seat for use by a driver of a vehicle in order to shorten brake-activation reaction time and reduce pressure on the lower side of the thigh for improving blood circulation. The under-thigh support is made in the form of an elongated body of a triangular cross-section that consists of an air-proof inner casing made from a non-stretchable flexible material and a squeezable foam plastic that fills the interior of the casing. The casing is provided with a valve that can be opened for squeezing the pad to a compressed state and then closed for preserving the pad in a compressed state convenient for storage and transportation. For use of the pad, the valve is opened, the squeezed foam plastic is expanded, and then the valve is closed, whereby the pad is maintained in a predetermined shape and with a predetermined rigidity. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090189432 | Self-inflatable footrest - A self-inflatable footrest for use in a vehicle or a plane that comprises an elongated body having a floor-rest surface and a foot-supporting surface which is inclined with respect to the floor-rest surface. The footrest consists of an air-proof inner casing filled with plastic foam and provided with a valve for sealing the interior of the inner casing or for opening connection thereof to the atmosphere so that when the valve is opened, the plastic foam can be compressed for displacing air from the cells of the plastic foam with subsequent closing of the valve, whereby the footrest becomes several times smaller in value for convenience of storage and transportation. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090259377 | System and method for shortening brake-activation-reaction time - A system and method for determining the shortest time needed for a driver to brake a vehicle in case of emergency by attaching tilt sensors to the accelerator and brake pedals or to elements rigidly connected to these pedals, connecting the outputs of these sensors to a computer, registering various moments and time intervals that occur during braking from initiation of release of the accelerator pedal to completion of depressing the brake pedal, and calculating total braking time. The position of the driver's seat is then changed several times in order to determine the position that ensures the shortest brake time. The same procedure can be repeated by determining the shortest brake time when using a specific under-thigh support developed by the inventors. The emergency signal is produced by a randomly illuminating lamp, the light of which is perceived by a photoreceiver and the moment of initiation of which is registered on the computer as the initial point of measurement. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090277279 | METHOD OF FINDING A THIGH SUPPORT HAVING GEOMETRY, RIGIDITY, AND ELASTICITY FOR MOST OPTIMAL BLOOD CIRCULATION IN THE LOWER EXTREMITIES OF A SEATED PERSON - A method of finding a thigh support for most optimal blood circulation in the lower extremities of a seated person consisting of measuring a blood-circulation parameter such as blood-flow velocity through the lower extremities of a seated person under different seating conditions, including those with or without the use of any thigh-supporting means. It has been proven that with the use of a thigh-supporting means, the measured blood-circulating parameter was much better than in a person seated without the use of a thigh-supporting means. Blood-flow velocity through the lower extremities of a person seated on the aforementioned seating device was measured by determining the Doppler shift in the frequency of returning ultrasound waves. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100022925 | Thigh support with vibratory device for improved blood circulation - A thigh support that consists of a resilient, e.g., a self-inflatable, part for supporting the thigh of a vehicle driver and a vibration-transmission member for transmitting vibrations to the driver's leg in order to improve blood circulation in the leg of the driver during long hours of driving. The thigh support may be of a type intended for shortening brake-activation time and combining brake-activation shortening time function with the function of improving blood circulation in the driver's leg due to transmission of vibration to the leg from the vibratory unit of the thigh support. The vibration-transmission member comprises a sealed cartridge in the form of a rubber casing filled with liquid and containing a sealed and encapsulated vibration motor that transmits vibration through the liquid. | 01-28-2010 |
