Abstract: This invention is a prefabricated expandable architecture including a plurality of structural segments collapsible and nested together in a first configuration encompassing a first volume and expandable or extendible in a second configuration and rigidly coupled together to form a selected shape encompassing a second larger volume.
Abstract: A folded air bag retaining apparatus for retaining a folded air bag coupled to a reaction plate in a folded configuration during the positioning of a cover. The apparatus including a holding fixture for supporting the reaction plate and the folded air bag coupled to the reaction plate, in a position to receive the enclosing cover, and a flexible band for retaining the folded air bag in a folded configuration until after the enclosing cover is positioned to enclose the folded air bag and the enclosing cover is coupled to the reaction plate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 1996
Date of Patent:
June 9, 1998
Assignee:
Automated Solutions, Inc.
Inventors:
Kenneth C. Blaisdell, James A. Dent, Larry P. Hulsey, Robert A. Rhinefrank
Abstract: A nasal tube holder for anchoring a tube in a nasal passage including a nasal dilator affixable over the bridge of a nose, a tube holding portion depending from the nasal dilator for engaging a tube and anchoring the tube within a nasal passage and an adhesive backing carried by the nasal dilator and the tube holding portion for adhering the nasal dilator to a nose and a tube to the tube holding portion.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 22, 1997
Date of Patent:
April 7, 1998
Inventors:
Michael M. Dillon, David F. Kreitzer, Dan B. Pool