Title:
【発明の名称】人体に外圧を及ぼすための装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH10500916
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PCT No. PCT/SE95/00277 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 7, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 7, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 17, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/25038 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 21, 1995The invention relates to a device (1, 3, 37) for exerting an external pressure on a human body part. The device, which is designed to surround the body part with comfortable fit, comprises components (15, 19 and 28) of memory material, such as memory metal. By heating the components, e.g. by conducting electric current through them, they will assume a different shape, e.g. a shorter length, the device being adapted to be contracted so as to "squeeze" the body part. When the components are thereafter cooled, they will resume their previous shape and the contraction ceases. The device is intended, inter alia, to prevent pooling of blood in body parts of a pilot when subjected to G-forces, and to increase, by recurring contractions, the blood circulation in the body parts surrounded by the device.
Inventors:
Savage, Stephen Yi.
Johann Thorne, Willie
Johann Thorne, Willie
Application Number:
JP52398695A
Publication Date:
January 27, 1998
Filing Date:
March 17, 1995
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Fevve Aerotech Actier Borrag
International Classes:
A41D13/00; A61F13/08; A61H7/00; A62B17/00; B64D10/00; B64G6/00; (IPC1-7): B64D10/00; A41D13/00; A61H7/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasuhiko Takeishi (1 outside)