For anyone who uses a car collision – the ever-present danger on our roads. That is why the vehicles are equipped with a variety of security systems, and including such as airbags. For the citizens of retirement age, but even a simple fall can also cause fatal damage. Think about this fact, employees located in Pennsylvania, the company developed the concept ActiveProtective worn on the waist of the air chamber, which is deployed in the event of a fall to reliably protect the pelvic bones takh elderly.
Chief Engineer ActiveProtective, Dr. Robert Buckman, came up with this idea, working trauma surgeons. He noticed how many elderly people were taken to hospital with a broken hip often due to falls, and they often never fully could already recover from his injuries. Age still …
Receive as a result of mental effort for himself and his assistants airbag is designed to be worn as a belt or above, or below the clothes. When onboard 3D-motion sensors built into the device, detect atypical movement, which is typical for the fall, it uses the cold gas inflator (the same type used in the set with a seat belt airbags in the car) to expand the plate-like air chamber which covers the user around the hips. When the owner reaches the ground, the pillow is ready to reduce the force of impact on the pelvic bones by as much as 90 percent.
Functional testing device is now being conducted in the laboratories of the company Operative Experience, located in Maryland, also owned by Buckman, which creates simulations of human bodies used for training personnel to serve victims of the accident and emergency trauma. Testing the air chamber has already begun. It involved a replica of a 90-year-old woman.
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