| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 441089000 | With signal means | 24 |
| 20080268731 | INFLATABLE LIFE-SAVING SWIMMING GARMENT - An inflatable life-saving swimming garment for a swimmer that comprises an inflatable part for floating the swimmer while being in distress and for creating, when inflated, volume difference between upper body part and lower body part of the swimmer. The garment includes an inflating system that consists of a gas tank with compressed gas for inflating, whenever required, the inflatable part; a controllable valve connecting between the air tank and the inflatable part, for allowing, whenever required, the compressed gas to inflate the inflatable part; a controller for analyzing the swimmer's status underwater and opening the valve after the swimmer has been in an actual or impending distress for a predetermined time; and a battery for supplying power for the operation of the controller and the valve. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090047850 | PERSONAL VISIBILITY MARKER - A personal visibility mark may increase the visibility of a person in the water to operators of watercraft or the like and may be used in combination with a personal floatation device. The personal visibility mark may include a housing including at least one intake opening. The housing may be removeably coupled to a personal floatation device or may be an integral component of the personal floatation device. A pump may be disposed within the housing and may be fluidly coupled to the intake opening and at least one nozzle for expelling a stream of water from the nozzle to increase the visibility of a user. The stream of water may include an interrupted stream. The interrupted stream may be provided by modulating the power to the pump and/or providing a self-resonating nozzle. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090061707 | PORTABLE PERSONAL SELF-OPERATING LIFE TUBE - A portable personal self-operating life tube is disclosed, in which when a user is drowned in water due to a marine disaster or a fire and sinking of a ship, it automatically operates, so the user can save his life by just wearing the tube, and the tube is able to keep a user's a body temperature until a rescue comes after the tube is expanded along with the above features, and a life tube can be easily used without a particular care by improving the problems found in a conventional art in which a user feels bad when wearing a life tube since a conventional life equipment is not customized, and it is not portable and is not easy to use. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090311928 | LIFE VEST WITH TWO-WAY RADIO - A life vest having a built-in two-way radio. The two-way radio may be mounted behind a protective covering. The protective covering includes contours that match buttons for the two-way radio, and depressing or otherwise actuating the contours results in actuation of the corresponding buttons or controls for the two-way radio. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100167608 | Freediving Safety Apparatus - An apparatus for use in the activity of freediving, providing the freediver with increased safety and protection in the event of Shallow Water Blackout, incapacitating hypoxia, or other emergency occurring in or under the water, while providing greater reliability of functioning, and comfort of wearing during the activity of freediving. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110092117 | PERSONAL LOCATION INDICATING ATTACHMENT ASSEMBLY AND PERSONAL FLOTATION LIFEJACKET CONSTRUCTED THEREWITH - A location indicating attachment assembly for a personal flotation lifejacket includes a brightly colored, broad, flat, pliant covering formed with attachment straps to secure the covering with respect to an exterior outer surface of a back of the personal flotation life jacket. A brightly colored, broad, elongate, pliant flag is secured to the covering and extends outwardly with respect to the covering and the exterior outer surface of the back of the personal flotation life jacket, and cooperates with the covering to improve the ability of onlookers to visually identify a user wearing the personal flotation lifejacket during aquatic recreational activity, such as boating, waterskiing, or the like, and who may be floating in a body of water. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110097952 | Water-Activated Life Jacket Safety Device - A device that can be permanently (or temporarily) attached to the back of a life jacket that deploys a staff or rod which sticks up high enough above the floater's head as to make them readily visible in the water. This staff or rod is generally water-activated in the sense that it is made of highly buoyant material that is forced upward out of a tube attached to the back of the jacket when in the water, and falls back down in the tube when out of the water. The staff can be brightly colored and can optionally hold a flag or other device to further increase visibility. The staff and/or flag can also have reflective portions for visibility at night. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110294382 | Device and a method for detecting the danger of a person drowning - A device and a method are disclosed for detecting the danger of a person drowning in a body of water. The device includes a breast belt and a life jacket. The breast belt has at least one physiological condition sensor affixed thereto while the life jacket has an expandable chamber connected to a compressed gas supply via an activating mechanism. As the compressed gas enters the expandable chamber, the life jacket increases in buoyancy. The life jacket also has a water contact sensor, a global positioning system device, first and second body orientation sensors, a transmitter which is capable of sending a signal to a remote receiver, and a control unit capable of receiving real time signals from each of the sensors and evaluating and comparing the real time signals against corresponding ranges of preset acceptable values to determine if the person wearing the life jacket is in danger of drowning. The control unit is capable of forwarding a signal to both the activating mechanism and to the transmitter when a signal from the water contact sensor indicates the person is in the water and the real time signals from the other sensors are outside of corresponding ranges of preset acceptable values. The signal to the activating mechanism opens the compressed gas supply while the signal to the transmitter is relayed to the remote receiver which sounds an audible alarm. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120122358 | LIFE VEST WITH LOCATOR AND HYDRATION PACK - A life vest includes a hydration pack capable of providing hydration to a user of the life vest; and a personal locator having a global positioning system receiver and a transmitter capable of transmitting the global positioning system location of the user of the life vest. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120129412 | Buoyancy-Enhanced Saftey Garment - The present invention discloses a personal garment constructed with a buoyancy-enhancing feature whose purpose is to provide the garment wearer with the ability to float on the surface of the water for an extended period of time with minimal expenditure of energy in a water environment in order to prevent drowning. The buoyancy enhancing feature may comprise several configurations. One configuration consists of a compressed fluid canister apparatus constructed within the garment that is activated by the garment wearer. Another configuration comprises a garment constructed in part of a fabric manufactured with minute particles of a buoyancy-enhancing material encapsulated within the fabric substance. Another configuration consists of the incorporation of one or more removable buoyancy-enhancing panels into pockets constructed within the garment. In each configuration, the buoyancy enhancement is achieved by increasing the composite volume and decreasing the composite density of the combined garment and the garment wearer. The invention is intended to increase the safety of individuals participating in water-related activities such as swimming or boating in an ocean, lake, or river, where the ability to remain in a floating position on the surface of the water without expending additional effort for an extended period of time could make a critical difference in the outcome of an emergency situation. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120164898 | Glow-in-the-Dark Life Jacket - An architecture is presented that provides a glow in the dark flotation device that increases the likelihood of quickly locating individuals lost in water by increasing the visibility of the user, and more particularly to a durable conventional life jacket having a phosphorescent portion that emits visible light under low-light conditions. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120178319 | Marine Safety Device - A marine safety device for deployment in water upon unwanted entry by a person into the water to indicate the location of and to provide buoyancy for that person; the assembly comprises a cover for retaining components of the device as an undeployed package, an inflatable mast having a proximal end which engages the cover and a distal free end, means for inflation of the inflatable member upon contact between the device and a body of water. A weight is located at or near the proximal end of the inflatable member to bias the inflatable member to a generally upright position. The device further comprises means to enable a person in the body of water to gain floatation from the assembly via at least one grippable member attached to the inflatable member. The device when deployed, sits in the body of water so that at least part of the inflatable member remains exposed to view above a top water level to enable rescuers to pinpoint the location of the person in the water and to enable a person in the water to use the inflatable member as a buoyant safety device. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120244765 | HYDROGEN POWER SUPPLY MODULE AND LIFE PRESERVER HAVING THE SAME - A hydrogen power supply module includes a hydrogen production unit, a fuel cell unit, and a hydrogen flow channel. The hydrogen flow channel is in communication with the hydrogen production unit and the fuel cell unit, and a solid-state reactant is stored in the hydrogen production unit. A liquid-state reactant reacts with the solid-state reactant to produce hydrogen when the liquid-state reactant comes into contact with the solid-state reactant, and the hydrogen flows into the fuel cell unit via the hydrogen flow channel. A life preserver having the hydrogen power supply module is also provided. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120244766 | LIFE JACKET - A life jacket for aquatic use with a back part | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120282832 | LIFE JACKET - A life jacket includes a hood and a hydration pack. The hood may be neoprene protecting the head from the water. The hydration pack may be insulated. The hydration pack may include a flow tube with a filter providing clean water to the user. The life jacket may include waterproof insulated pockets protecting contents therein. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20130171894 | Safety Device and Inflating Apparatus Therefor - 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. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130273794 | Flotation and Locating Device - A personal flotation and locating device for increasing the survivability and visibility of an individual stranded in water is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the flotation and locating device comprises a rescue streamer, the rescue streamer including a plurality of branching pneumatic stays structures. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20140045395 | DOG FLOTATION DEVICES AND LIFE VESTS HAVING SAFETY FLAGS - A dog flotation device with safety flag includes a flotation vest having a central panel adapted to cover the back of a dog, and a safety flag including a flag staff having a lower end connected with the flotation vest and an upper end remote from the lower end. The safety flag includes a motion-activated light connected to the upper end of the flag staff and a flag attached to the flag staff below the motion-activated light. One or more buoyant elements are incorporated into the flotation vest for providing buoyancy to the dog flotation device. The motion-activated light includes an LED light, a power source, a motion detector for detecting movement of the motion-activated light, and a circuit for activating said LED light in response to the detection of motion by the motion detector. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140154936 | Aquatic Lifesaving Device - This device comprises an iron casing closed with a glass door to be broken in the case of an emergency, within which is located, above a bench a motor that drives a shaft in rotation, on which is mounted a reel winding a rope attached to a life jacket that fits on the rescuer body, provided with a whistle. The end of the reel shaft bearings rests on a supporting tripod at the end of the bench and, on the outer side, has a coupling in order to mount a crank for winding by hand in the case of engine failure. A pole is anchored along the beach, the end thereof having a snap hook of the quick opening type, through which the rescuer passes the rope before entering the water. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140170915 | OPEN WATER SWIM TRAINING DEVICE - An open-water swim training device provides open-water swimmers a stronger, safer swim without performance or stroke. The device includes a buoyant body having a tapered front end and an opening positioned in an upper surface thereof for removably receiving nutrition and/or hydration. A first end of a tether is connected to the tapered front end of the buoyant body. A waistband for removably connecting the training device to a swimmer is connected to a second end of the tether. A visibility marker is also affixed to the buoyant body. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140308860 | EMERGENCY DEVICES - A manual inflation component ( | 10-16-2014 |
| 20160083057 | SAFETY, RESCUE, AND RECOVERY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A safety, rescue, and recovery device that compressively secures to a limb of a user when inflated. The device can be easily adjusted to be negatively buoyant, neutrally buoyant, or positively buoyant before inflation depending on whether the application is safety, rescue, or recovery. The device may also be integrated into an article of clothing for certain applications. An elongated handle is attached to the device to provide a sliding attachment point for a rescue rope that automatically reduces torque applied to the limb of the user. Consequently, a rescue force applied to the rescue rope can act at a variety of angles along an arc relative to the device. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160150836 | CLOTHING WITH INFLATION SYSTEM | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160167751 | MARKER AND RECOVERY DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
