Body support system
CA 2000534 C · Owner: Kawasaki, Nozomu · Inventors: Higgins, Larry; Kawasaki, Nozomu; Scott, Terence A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An air bed comprising an air mattress having a plurality of interconnected rows and columns of air cells divided into longitudinally isolated zones and, an airflow control system for supplying air at differing pressures to the zones such that a person reclining atop the mattress is supported and maintained in spinal alignment at subischemic applied pressures.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 12, 1989 and granted December 13, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 12, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 12, 2011.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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