Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Thermal applicators
Patent
1998-12-07
2000-09-19
Dvorak, Linda C. M.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Thermal applicators
2458, 2 215, 2 216, 405186, B63C 1104, B63C 1102, A62B 1700, A61F 700
Patent
active
061205303
ABSTRACT:
A thermal liner in a diving suit has a layer of incompressible phase change materials for storing latent heat energy and for later releasing the std energy while changing phase. This thermal liner provides thermal protection for divers' wetsuits, drysuits, and hot-water suits using stored energy from phase change materials, for extreme cold water diving. The thermal liner can function as an emergency backup heat source upon power failure when electrically-heated drysuits are used, or as an emergency backup heat source in case of interruption of warm water supply when hot-water diving suits are used. It can also be used as a supplemental source of heat for divers wearing passively-insulated wetsuits or drysuits to prolong acceptable durations in cold water missions. The thermal liner gives divers an emergency "come home" capability in case of power failure within drysuits supplied with an electrically-heated undergarment, or of an interruption of the warm water supply to a hot-water suit. A warm protective barrier is provided between the diver's skin and the hot-water suit that protects the diver from thermal shorts due to water current or compression of the suit by surface contacts. Alternately, the thermal liner may cool a diver during dressing on the surface by absorbing the diver's body heat as the phase change materials melt prior to the dive.
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http://www.thermasorb.com.
Fitzgibbon Steven W.
Grupe Cara
Hughes Robert
Nuckols Marshall L.
Dvorak Linda C. M.
Gilbert Harvey A.
Peck Donald G.
Ram Jocelyn Debra
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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