All The Claims

1. A method for ventilating a patient airway during the inspiratory phase and expiratory phase from a source of gas under pressure comprising:
supplying to the patient airway during the inspiratory phase a plurality of pulses of small volumes of gas from said source of gas,
adding in succession the pulses of small volumes of gas to provide successively greater volumes of gas successively increasing in pulsatile form the pressure of the gas in the airway of the patient during the inspiratory phase by adding the successively greater volumes of gas in the airway of the patient being caused solely by the successive addition of the small volumes of gas and serving to provide diffusive ventilation to the patient during the inspiratory phase, and, permitting the patient to exhale during the expiratory phase.
2. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 wherein the method includes a compressor as said source of gas under pressure, the method including
amplifying the air supply from said compressor to create a constant air supply to percuss the lungs with sufficient therapeutic amplitude to mobilize and recruit the peripheral airways with intrapulmonary percussive ventilation, and
maintaining adequate compressed air from said compressor to power an aerosol generator or other gas powered nebulizers with near the same particulate spectrum and volume.
3. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 2 including
balancing the total compressor outflow to provide sufficient percussive amplitude and concomitant nebulization over a selectable frequency band.
4. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including
manually selecting separate peripheral pulmonary airway mobilization and recruitment amplitudes and oscillatory frequencies for associated aerosol delivery methods during active lung therapy.
5. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 4 wherein
said manually selecting is engagable by a patient’s finger or hand and
thereby manipulating a manual bi-phasic switch controlled orifice,
and wherein said patient’s finger or hand supports a breathing head assembly.
6. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 4 wherein
said manually selecting includes remotely manually selecting and manipulating a manual bi-phasic switch controlled orifice, remote from a patient’s finger or hand.
7. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including automating optimal operational pressures for different patients due to their physical size and therapeutic requirements without an operational pressure monitoring gauge.
8. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including
allowing the patient to automatically select a clinically effective pulmonary airway mobilization and recruitment program without operational pressure or control manipulation, thereby eliminating a breathing pressure manometer.
9. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 2 including
providing a luggage case with a soft padded interior for said compressor;
venting said case for augmented ambient air flow there through for compressor cooling.
10. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 9 wherein said luggage case has interior side walls, the method including
storing therapeutic breathing head components and medications about said side walls and storing an inter connected power cord for said compressor in said luggage case.
11. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 9 including
buffering compressor noise during operation of said compressor.
12. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 9 including
absorbing force shock when said luggage storing said compressor is dropped from an elevation.
13. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 9 including
opening said luggage to expose a control panel including one or more of a compressor start and stop switch, percussion frequency band selection and breathing head service sockets.
14. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 13 including
providing a control panel with controls for said adding in succession the pulses of small volumes of gas;
covering said control panel with a flip over fabric cover to conceal said control panel, said fabric cover impervious to medication spills.
15. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 13 including
providing fringe access for interconnecting a breathing head tubing while substantially simultaneously muting compressor noise during operation thereof.
16. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 13 wherein said compressor is supplied with ac power for operation, the method including
converting dc power into ac power for said compressor, and
providing an interconnection for said ac power source.
17. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including
providing a continuous mandatory ventilation (CMV) ventilator,
wherein a percussive diffusive wave format is supplied to a host convective volume-pressure oriented CMV ventilator.
18. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 12 wherein
the absorption of said shock force includes absorption of shock force in excess of a vertical drop by a patient from a patient’s hip-level to a hard surface.
19. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 2 wherein the compressor includes a piston and the method including
employing compressional shock waves created during repetitive compressive upstrokes of the air compressor piston which serve to modulate the positive pressure endobronchial sub tidal volume deliveries with vibratory energy.
20. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 19 wherein 3500 compressional shock waves are employed.
21. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 14 including
physically separating said luggage from said compressor and controls and control panel thereby said compressor and controls and control panel can provide stand-alone therapy apart from said luggage.
22. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 4 wherein
the manually selecting separate peripheral pulmonary airway mobilization and recruitment amplitudes and oscillatory frequencies controls two clinical modalities:
a percussive oscillation commenced by allowing ambient venting, and
an oscillatory bi-phasic amplitude supply of air to the patient’s airway causing mobilization or recruitment of the patient’s lungs by obstructing or occluding ambient venting.
23. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including
producing endobronchial shock waves with vibratory ratio of about seven modulating shock waves during each endobronchial sub tidal volume injection.
24. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 23 wherein
producing endobronchial shock waves employs a ratio of about 3500500=7 during each endobronchial sub tidal volume injection.
25. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 24 wherein the ratio of about 3500500=7 involves delivery of 500 sub tidal volumes per minute divided into the number of compression strokes of up to about 3500 strokes per minute, resulting in about seven (7) air compression strokes for each sub tidal volume injected into the patient’s pulmonary airways,
26. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 23 wherein
producing endobronchial shock waves creates endobronchial micro agitation which causes the walls of the pulmonary airways to be more compliable to volume change.
27. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including
at lower cyclic frequencies,
decreasing sub tidal impaction forces and then gradually ramping up sub tidal volume delivery by initial calibration of a loading orifice.
28. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including
muting sub tidal volume delivery with a two-position or bi-modual switch representing bi-phasic operation or nebulization only.
29. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 1 including
directionally distributing high frequency compressor generated energy spikes created during stroke volume generation, into a labyrinth distribution system serving as an accumulator in preparation for the energy spikes to be transported into the lungs.
30. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 29 including balancing endobronchial sub tidal pressure gradient with two outflow orifices serving to create a pressure-volume regulated operational air flow into the primary venturi jet orifice with pressure rise balancing by secondary flow through the jet orifice of the nebulizer.
31. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 30 including regulating, within a predetermined delivery pressure variance range, injection of the sub tidal volume into the patient’s airways.
32. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 2 including
generating compressor stroke energy spikes by primarily transmitting gas through a jet orifice of a venturi body thereby serving as a pulsatile airoxygen injector into patient’s airways.
33. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 32 including wherein the compressor stroke energy spikes, transmitted through the jet orifice form micro energy spikes adapted to impact upon elastomeric walls of physiological pulmonary airways of the patient’s airways, thereby adapted to create an expansive dilating force during a period of a transient pressure rise causing a sub tidal airway inflation.
34. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 33 including
providing a secondary interconnected nebulizer jet orifice adapted to convert a liquid into an aerosol with a designed particulate spectrum within a predetermined jet orifice pressure variance, the constant flow to the nebulizer jet orifice will vary during inspiratory endobronchial sub tidal volume injection and follow on to an expiratory, no-flow period.
35. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 34 including
providing a variable jet orifice flow to regulate or buffer an operational pressure within an operational therapeutic pressure range.
36. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 35 including
creating scheduled pulsatile intrapulmonary sub tidal flows from the venturi jet orifice creates a periodic inflow pressure gradient serving to aspirate a volume of the particulate aerosol for concomitant aerosol delivery into the patient’s airways.
37. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 36 including
after the sub tidal delivery or expiratory interval, purging mechanical airways as part of nebulizer outflow before venting the outflow to ambient with mixed exhaled physiological gases from the patient’s airways.
38. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 37 including
providing a proximal non-gated venturi tube which is ambient vented allowing the compressible gases being delivered the patient’s airways to obstructionally increase and decrease the venturi tube pressures, in near instantaneous compliance with changing inflational endobronchial airway resistances.
39. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 38 including
with a near constant pulsatile jet orifice injection pressure, a constant inflational variance on resistances of the patient’s airways which cause pressures of the scheduled venturi created entrainment gradient to be influenced by the pulmonary airway resistance changes.
40. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 33 including
governing an outflow velocity from the venturi tube injector by an ever-changing inflational pulmonary endobronchial resistances to inflow.
41. A method for ventilating a patient airway as in claim 40 including
governing an outflow velocity of the venturi tube injector by an ever-changing inflational pulmonary endobronchial resistances of the patient’s airways to inflow, thereby limiting conversion of a constant inflow into the patient’s airways due to an abrupt pressure rise within the patient’s preferential bronchiolar airways.
42. A respirator for ventilating a patient’s airway during the inspiratory phase and expiratory phase, said respirator being supplied with gas under pressure from a source of pressurized gas comprising:
means for supplying a plurality of pulses of small volumes of gas from said source of gas to the patient airway during the inspiratory phase,
means, coupled to said means for supplying, for adding successively greater volumes of gas pulses as part of said small pulses of gas, to provide successively greater volumes of gas, successively increasing in pulsatile form, the pressure of the gas in the airway of the patient during the inspiratory phase resulting in diffusive ventilation to the patient during the inspiratory phase, and,
means for permitting the patient to exhale during the expiratory phase.
43. A respirator as claimed in claim 42 wherein said source of gas under pressure includes a compressor and the respirator includes:
means, coupled to said means for supplying, for generating a constant air supply to percuss the lungs by amplifying the air supply from said compressor, and
an aerosol generator or nebulizer maintaining an adequate compressed air volume and particulate spectrum, said aerosol generator or nebulizer coupled to said means for supplying.
44. A respirator as claimed in claim 43:
including a frequency selector means for balancing the total compressor outflow and percussive amplitude and nebulization over a predetermined selectable frequency band, said frequency selector means coupled to said means for supplying.
45. A respirator as claimed in claim 43 including a manual bi-phasic switch for said means for supplying which controls amplitudes and oscillatory frequencies for said aerosol generator or nebulizer.
46. A respirator as claimed in claim 43 including:
a luggage case with a soft padded interior for said compressor;
a case vent permitting ambient air flow there through for said compressor,
said case having buffering walls limiting compressor noise and shock absorbing wall segments;
said respirator having control panel;
said luggage having a control panel opening with a fabric cover to conceal said control panel.
47. A respirator as claimed in claim 42
wherein said respirator is a continuous mandatory ventilation (CMV) ventilator, and
said means for supplying includes means for generating a percussive diffusive pressure air waves supplied to a host convective volume-pressure oriented CMV ventilator.
48. A respirator as claimed in claim 43 wherein the compressor includes a piston and said means for supplying employs compressional shock waves created during repetitive compressive upstrokes of the air compressor piston which serve to modulate a positive pressure endobronchial sub tidal volume deliveries with vibratory energy.
49. A respirator as claimed in claim 48 wherein said means for supplying produces endobronchial shock waves with vibratory ratio of about seven modulating shock waves during each endobronchial sub tidal volume injection.

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 power module capable of intermittently rotating a grill rack, the power module comprising:
a housing installed on and fixed to an outer side of a grill burner; and
a gear set fixedly provided in the housing and comprising an intermittent gear and an output gear, the intermittent gear being drivable to rotate by an output shaft, the intermittent gear having a circumferential surface provided with an intermittently toothed portion along an axial direction of the intermittent gear, the intermittently toothed portion comprising a toothed zone and a toothless zone, the output gear having a gear shaft whose one end is exposed from the housing so as to connect with a grill rack, wherein when the toothed zone meshes with the output gear, the output gear can be driven to rotate by the intermittent gear such that the grill rack is rotated synchronously, and when the toothless zone is rotated to a position corresponding to the output gear, neither the output gear nor the grill rack can be driven to rotate by the output shaft, thus allowing the grill rack to rotate intermittently above the grill burner and hence allowing a heat source in the grill burner to heat food on the grill rack evenly.
2. The power module of claim 1, wherein the circumferential surface of the intermittent gear is further provided with a continuously toothed portion, the continuously toothed portion and the intermittently toothed portion being provided along an axial direction of the intermittent gear, the continuously toothed portion being circumferentially provided with continuous teeth, the toothed zone having teeth extending from the teeth of the continuously toothed portion.
3. The power module of claim 2, further comprising a pushing member having an end extending out of the housing and an opposite end connected to the output gear such that, when pushed from outside the housing, the pushing member drives the output gear to move along an axial direction of the output gear, wherein when the output gear is moved to a position corresponding to the intermittently toothed portion, the output gear can be driven by the intermittently toothed portion, causing the grill rack to rotate intermittently above the grill burner, and when the output gear is moved a position corresponding to the continuously toothed portion, the output gear can be driven by the continuously toothed portion, causing the grill rack to rotate continuously above the grill burner.
4. A power module capable of intermittently rotating a grill rack, the power module comprising:
a housing installed on and fixed to an outer side of a grill burner; and
a gear set fixedly provided in the housing and comprising an input gear, an intermittent gear, and an output gear, the input gear being drivable to rotate by an output shaft, the intermittent gear having a circumferential surface provided with a continuously toothed portion and an intermittently toothed portion along an axial direction of the intermittent gear, the continuously toothed portion being circumferentially provided with continuous teeth, the intermittently toothed portion comprising a toothed zone and a toothless zone, the toothed zone having teeth extending from the teeth of the continuously toothed portion, the toothless zone having no teeth, the output gear having a gear shaft whose one end is exposed from the housing so as to connect with a grill rack, wherein when the input gear meshes with the continuously toothed portion and the output gear meshes with the intermittently toothed portion, the intermittent gear can be driven to rotate continuously by the input gear and can drive the output gear to rotate, and once the toothless zone is rotated to a position corresponding to the output gear, neither the output gear nor the grill rack can be driven to rotate by the output shaft, thus allowing the grill rack to rotate intermittently above the grill burner and hence allowing a heat source in the grill burner to heat food on the grill rack evenly.
5. The power module of claim 4, wherein the gear shaft of the output gear is axially movable to a position in which the output gear meshes with the continuously toothed portion.
6. The power module of claim 5, further comprising a pushing member having an end extending out of the housing and an opposite end connected to the output gear such that, when pushed from outside the housing, the pushing member drives the output gear to move along an axial direction of the output gear, wherein when the output gear is moved to a position corresponding to the intermittently toothed portion, the output gear can be driven by the intermittently toothed portion, causing the grill rack to rotate intermittently above the grill burner, and when the output gear is moved a position corresponding to the continuously toothed portion, the output gear can be driven by the continuously toothed portion, causing the grill rack to rotate continuously above the grill burner.
7. The power module of claim 4, wherein the input gear has a gear shaft whose one end is connected to the output shaft and whose opposite end is formed with a nesting hole in which an opposite end of the gear shaft of the output gear is movably nested.
8. The power module of claim 5, wherein the input gear has a gear shaft whose one end is connected to the output shaft and whose opposite end is formed with a nesting hole in which an opposite end of the gear shaft of the output gear is movably nested.
9. The power module of claim 6, wherein the input gear has a gear shaft whose one end is connected to the output shaft and whose opposite end is formed with a nesting hole in which an opposite end of the gear shaft of the output gear is movably nested.

1. An adjustable bed, comprising:
an adjustable bed frame including one or more articulating portions;
an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed frame, wherein the air adjustable mattress is associated with an air pump to regulate the air pressure in the air inflatable mattress, wherein the air inflatable mattress includes flex regions about which the air inflatable mattress can flex; and
a wireless USB remote control adapted to control at least one adjustable aspect of the adjustable bed.
2. An adjustable bed, comprising:
an adjustable bed frame including one or more articulating portions;
a remote memory storage facility adapted to be removeably and replaceably connected to an adjustable bed frame controller associated with the adjustable bed frame, wherein the remote memory includes information relating to at least one operational parameter related to control of the adjustable bed; and
an air purification facility associated with the adjustable bed.
3. An adjustable bed, comprising:
an adjustable bed frame including one or more articulating portions;
a remote storage location of user preferences, wherein the user preferences represent recall parameters relating to one or more adjustable aspects of the adjustable bed; and
a modular control device, wherein the modular control device is adapted to control at least one aspect of the adjustable bed.
4. An adjustable bed, comprising:
an adjustable bed frame including one or more articulating portions;
a remote storage location of user preferences, wherein the user preferences represent recall parameters relating to one or more adjustable aspects of the adjustable bed; and
a wireless USB remote control adapted to control at least one adjustable aspect of the adjustable bed.
5. An adjustable bed, comprising:
an adjustable bed frame including one or more articulating portions;
a Bluetooth remote control adapted to control at least one adjustable aspect of the adjustable bed; and
an ultra wide band (UWB) remote control adapted to control at least one adjustable aspect of the adjustable bed.
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 two-part adhesive composition having a first part and a second part, said composition comprising:
at least one aromatic epoxy resin in the first part;
at least one amine curing agent in the second part; and
at least one ester in at least one of the first andor second part, wherein the ester corresponds to the general formula
R2\u2014CO\u2014OR1
wherein
R1 is an organic moiety comprising at least one of
(i) at least one epoxy group or
(ii) at least one acryl group; and

R2 is a branched alkyl group.
2. The composition of claim 1 wherein R2 is represented by the formula
\u2014(CH2)n\u2014C(RO(Rii)(Riii)
wherein
Ri represents H or an alkyl group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms,
Rii represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms,
Riii an alkyl group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and
n represents 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10.
3. The composition of claim 2 wherein Ri represents a methyl or an ethyl group.
4. The composition of claim 1, wherein R2 comprises less than 20 carbon atoms.
5. The composition of claim 1, wherein the aromatic epoxy resin comprises at least one bisphenol glycidyl ether group.
6. The composition of claim 1, further comprising at least one toughening agent.
7. The composition of claim 1, wherein the aromatic epoxy resin comprises at least one aliphatic carbon-carbon double bond.
8. The composition of claim 1, further comprising a non-aromatic, unsaturated epoxy resin.
9. The composition of claim 8, wherein the non-aromatic, unsaturated epoxy resin is a polyacrylate epoxy resin.
10. The composition of claim 1, further comprising a metal salt.
11. A cured composition comprising the cured combination of the first part and the second part of the two-part adhesive composition of claim 1.
12. A method of making a composite article, the method comprising:
applying the two-part adhesive composition according to claim 1 to a surface; and
curing the two-part adhesive composition to form a composite article.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the surface is a metal surface comprising a hydrocarbon-containing material.