Abstract: A vehicle, including: an electric motor operatively connected to at least one driving wheel of the vehicle, and a frame structure including first and second side members extending in a longitudinal direction along opposite sides of the vehicle and at least one cross member extending in a transversal direction of the vehicle and being connected to the first and second side members, wherein the electric motor is supported by the frame structure such that the electric motor is arranged in a front portion of the vehicle in association with a pair of front wheels of the vehicle, and wherein each of the side members, at least along a deformable section thereof, is configured to deform by bending in an inwards and/or outwards transversal direction when compressed by a longitudinally directed force exceeding a threshold value, such as in case the vehicle is subject to a sufficiently energetic frontal collision.

Abstract: A vehicle, including: an electric motor operatively connected to at least one driving wheel of the vehicle, and a frame structure including first and second side members extending in a longitudinal direction along opposite sides of the vehicle and at least one cross member extending in a transversal direction of the vehicle and being connected to the first and second side members, wherein the electric motor is supported by the frame structure such that the electric motor is arranged in a front portion of the vehicle in association with a pair of front wheels of the vehicle, and wherein each of the side members, at least along a deformable section thereof, is configured to deform by bending in an inwards and/or outwards transversal direction when compressed by a longitudinally directed force exceeding a threshold value, such as in case the vehicle is subject to a sufficiently energetic frontal collision.

Abstract: Respirators work cyclically with an inspiration phase, in which breathing gas is forced into the lungs of a patient, followed by an expiration phase, in which the supply of breathing gas to the patient is stopped and the patient is exhaling by himself. There is a risk that the patient will have difficulty exhaling. In this case the lung pressure of the patient will be too high unless the gas supply is interrupted at the start of the next following inspiration phase. In order to detect too high lung pressure and to provide such interruption, a pressure sensor is arranged to sense the gas pressure in a gas line connected to the breathing catheter introduced into the lung of the patient. This pressure sensor will normally detect a higher pressure during the inspiration phase than during the expiration phase. Therefore, an operating circuit is arranged to sense the state of the pressure sensor in a predetermined phase position only during the expiration phase.

Abstract: An arrangement is provided in a respirator for measuring the amount of gas passed to a patient through a supply line. The arrangement includes a self-oscillating fluidistor for dividing the gas flow into part volumes of a given magnitude and for generating an electrical pulse for each part volume passing therethrough. The fluidistor includes two outputs and a control channel having a temperature-dependent resistor located therein and an amplifier and pulse-forming circuit connected to the resistor so as to generate electrical pulses whose number is related to the number of part volumes flowing through the control channel of the fluidistor. A binary counter is connected to the amplifier and pulse-forming circuit for counting the number of pulses over a predetermined time interval while a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter, having first and second inputs, generates an analog signal corresponding to the number of pulses produced per time interval.