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EP 0 078 644 A3 |
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EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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Date of publication A3: |
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02.05.1984 Bulletin 1984/18 |
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Date of publication A2: |
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11.05.1983 Bulletin 1983/19 |
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Date of filing: 22.10.1982 |
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Designated Contracting States: |
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BE DE FR GB IT SE |
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Priority: |
30.10.1981 GB 8132830
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Applicant: NORMALAIR-GARRETT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED |
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Inventors: |
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- Hamlin, Humphrey Albert Samuel
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- Marsh, Roger Malcolm
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- Foote, James Conway
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Breathable gas delivery regulator |
(57) A breathable gas delivery regulator (10) has a demand valve (15) which will open
easily to substantially consistent efforts of a user throughout the pressure range
of supply gas from a molecular sieve oxygen generator (not shown). The demand valve
(15) is balanced by supply gas pressure and is operably connected, such as by a mechanical
lever (29), with a pressure-responsive wall (27) of a demand-pressure sensing chamber
(12) which is in fluid communication with a gas delivery outlet (17). Movements of
the pressure-responsive wall (27) cause the demand valve (15) to move towards opening
or closing and thereby regulate the flow of supply gas from a supply gas inlet (16)
to the gas delivery outlet (17).