1. A wearable tubing safety vest configured to harness therethrough medical treatment delivery tubing andor communication cables, the tubing safety vest comprising:
a vest component comprising a body-encompassing component cooperable with a plurality of releasably securable flaps, the vest component configured for demountable installation about a subject’s torso; and
an elongate tubing harness securely engaged with the vest component, wherein said tubing harness is configured to releasably receive and retain therethrough at least one of medical treatment delivery tubing and communication cables.
2. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the vest component is configured to encompass one of a human infant torso, a human juvenile torso, and a human adult torso.
3. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the vest component is configured to encompass an animal torso.
4. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 3, wherein the animal torso is selected from the group consisting of canines, felines, equines, livestock and exotic wildlife.
5. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the releasably securable flaps are configured for adjustable demountable engagement with the body component of said vest component.
6. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 5, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the releasably securable flaps comprises an expandable-retractable resilient material.
7. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of releasably securable flaps are provided with releasable cooperating devices selected from the group comprising, buttons, hooks and eyes, clasps, snaps, adhesive strips, and fabric hook-and-loop fasteners.
8. A tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the tubing harness comprises an elongate foldable fabric material, wherein the opposing elongate edges are provided with releasable cooperating devices selected from the group comprising, buttons, hooks and eyes, clasps, snaps, adhesive strips, and fabric hook-and-loop fasteners.
9. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the tubing harness component comprises a pliant material selected from the group comprising washable natural textiles, synthetic textiles, and disposable sheet goods.
10. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the inner surface of the tubing harness component is provided with a slip-resistant component.
11. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 10, wherein the slip-resistant component consists of at least one of an impregnated slip-resistant material, a plurality of inter-woven fibres each coated with a slip-resistant coating, a sheet of slip-resistant material engaged with the inner surface of the tubing harness component, and a plurality of strips each comprising a slip-resistant material, said plurality of strips engaged with the inner surface of the tubing harness component.
12. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 1, wherein the inner surface of the tubing harness component is engaged with an elongate overlay configured with at least one channel extending therealong, said channel configured to receive and releasingly engage therein at least one of a medical tubing or cabling.
13. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 12, wherein the elongate overlay is configured with a plurality of channels extending therealong, each of said channel configured to receive and releasingly engage therein at least one of a medical tubing or cabling.
14. A wearable tubing safety vest configured to harness therethrough medical treatment delivery tubing andor communication cables, the tubing safety vest comprising:
a vest component comprising a body-encompassing component cooperable with a plurality of releasably securable flaps, the vest component configured for demountable installation about a subject’s torso;
an elongate tubing harness configured to releasably receive and retain therethrough at least one of medical treatment delivery tubing and communication cables; and
at least one hinge component interposed the vest component and the tubing harness.
15. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein a plurality of fastening devices are provided for demountably engaging the tubing harness component with a front portion of the vest component andor a rear portion of the vest component.
16. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the vest component is configured to encompass one of a human infant torso, a human juvenile torso, and a human adult torso.
17. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the vest component is configured to encompass an animal torso.
18. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 17, wherein the animal torso is selected from the group consisting of canines, felines, equines, livestock, and exotic wildlife.
19. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the releasably securable flaps are configured for adjustable demountable engagement with the body component of said vest component.
20. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 19, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the releasably securable flaps comprises an expandable-retractable resilient material.
21. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of releasably securable flaps are provided with releasable cooperating devices selected from the group comprising, buttons, hooks and eyes, clasps, snaps, adhesive strips, and fabric hook-and-loop fasteners.
22. A tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the tubing harness comprises an elongate foldable fabric material, wherein the opposing elongate edges are provided with releasable cooperating devices selected from the group comprising, buttons, hooks and eyes, clasps, snaps, adhesive strips, and fabric hook-and-loop fasteners.
23. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the tubing harness component comprises a pliant material selected from the group comprising washable natural and synthetic textiles and sheet goods, and disposable sheet goods.
24. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the inner surface of the tubing harness component is provided with a slip-resistant component.
25. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 24, wherein the slip-resistant component consists of at least one of an impregnated slip-resistant material, a plurality of inter-woven fibres each coated with a slip-resistant coating, a sheet of slip-resistant material engaged with the inner surface of the tubing harness component, and a plurality of strips each comprising a slip-resistant material, said plurality of strips engaged with the inner surface of the tubing harness component.
26. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 14, wherein the inner surface of the tubing harness component is engaged with an elongate overlay configured with at least one channel extending therealong, said channel configured to receive and releasingly engage therein at least one of a medical tubing or cabling.
27. A wearable tubing safety vest according to claim 26, wherein the elongate overlay is configured with a plurality of channels extending therealong, each of said channel configured to receive and releasingly engage therein at least one of a medical tubing or cabling.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for batch fabrication of three-dimensional shells used as vibrational membranes for a vibratory sensor comprising:
defining a plurality of cavities of a predetermined volume into a substrate prior to glassblowing;
disposing a planar thermoplastically deformable layer over the substrate and trapping a gas in the cavities of a predetermined volume; and
inflating the three-dimensional shells through the planar thermoplastically deformable layer by heating the thermoplastically deformable layer to a plastic state and the gas in the plurality of cavities,
wherein inflating the three-dimensional shells through the planar thermoplastically deformable layer inflates the three-dimensional shells to form spherical three-dimensional shells and further comprising etching away or physically removing an upper portion of the spherical three-dimensional shells to form hemispherical three-dimensional shells.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising forming a stem on each of the three-dimensional shells by disposing a stencil layer to the planar thermoplastically deformable layer prior to inflating the three-dimensional shells, the stencil layer having stem holes defined therethrough to define a shape of the stems, and inflating the three-dimensional shells through the stem holes of the stencil layer.
3. The method of claim 2 further comprising etching away or physically removing an upper portion of the three-dimensional shells to form three-dimensional shells with a wine-glass shape.
4. The method of claim 2 further comprising defining significantly narrower stem holes in the stencil layer in comparison with a cavity size defined in the substrate to fabricate a variably sized shell.
5. The method of claim 1 where defining the plurality of cavities of the predetermined volume into the substrate prior to glassblowing comprises defining a plurality of continuous ring cavities into the substrate prior to glassblowing to provide toroidal shells.
6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
selectively disposing conductive patterning on the planar thermoplastically deformable layer prior to glassblowing; and
forming a predetermined three-dimensional metal pattern on a surface of the three-dimensional shells during the inflating where the metal pattern plastically deforms along with the inflation of the three-dimensional shells through the planar thermoplastically deformable layer.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
disposing a selected layer of material on or in the inflated three-dimensional shells; and
dissolving at least one inflated thermoplastically deformable three-dimensional shell leaving a three-dimensional shell composed of the selected layer of material.
8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
selectively disposing conductive patterning on the planar thermoplastically deformable layer prior to glassblowing;
selectively disposing a sacrificial layer of material on the conductive patterning on the planar thermoplastically deformable layer prior to glassblowing; and
forming a predetermined three-dimensional conductive pattern on a surface of the three-dimensional shells during the inflating where the conductive patterning covered with the sacrificial layer plastically deforms along with the inflation of the three-dimensional shells through the planar thermoplastically deformable layer.
9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
disposing a selected layer of material on or in the inflated three-dimensional shells or disposing a selected layer of material on the planar thermoplastically deformable layer prior to glassblowing and plastically deforming the selected layer with the inflation of the three-dimensional shells through the planar thermoplastically deformable layer; and
employing the selected layer on the inflated three-dimensional shell as a dielectric layer of an internal dielectric transducer or piezoelectric layers for electromechanical transduction, or providing additional layers on the inflated three-dimensional shells using micromachining, including combinations of patterning and doping of deposited materials.
10. The method of claim 1 further comprising chemically treating the three-dimensional shells to decrease roughness and improve performance of a microshell resonator gyroscope (MSRG) formed therefrom by polishing of an inner and outer surface of the three-dimensional shells by means of wet or vapor phase of processing.
11. The method of claim 1 where disposing the planar thermoplastically deformable layer over the substrate and trapping a gas in the cavities of the predetermined volume comprises bonding the planar thermoplastically deformable layer to the substrate using a thin film as an intermediate layer between the planar thermoplastically deformable layer and the substrate, wherein the substrate is comprised of a quartz wafer.
12. The method of claim 1 further comprising independently controlling a volume of the gas trapped in the cavities to fabricate a variably sized shell.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the substrate is selected from the materials consisting of the group of silicon, titania silicate, fused quartz, graphite, and silicon carbide.