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LOx breathing system with gas permeable-liquid impermeable heat exchange and delivery hose

Patent ·
OSTI ID:224975
Life support apparatus is composed of: a garment for completely enclosing a wearer and constructed for preventing passage of gas from the environment surrounding the garment; a portable receptacle holding a quantity of an oxygen-containing fluid in liquid state, the fluid being in a breathable gaseous state when at standard temperature and pressure; a fluid flow member secured within the garment and coupled to the receptacle for conducting the fluid in liquid state from the receptacle to the interior of the garment; and a fluid flow control device connected for causing fluid to flow from the receptacle to the fluid flow member at a rate determined by the breathable air requirement of the wearer, wherein fluid in liquid state is conducted into the interior of the garment at a rate to be vaporized and heated to a breathable temperature by body heat produced by the wearer. 6 figs.
Research Organization:
Westinghouse Hanford Co
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-87RL10930
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Patent Number(s):
US 5,511,542/A/
Application Number:
PAN: 8-220,865
OSTI ID:
224975
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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