A temperature information management system for use in vehicles, particularly commercial airliners. The system provides a sensing section, a converter section, an operations section, an archival section, and a communications section that are all functionally integrated to monitor continuous operating temperatures for an airliner. The system provides a sensing a sensing section for continuously monitoring operating temperatures in designated areas of an airliner. The sensing section generates real-time outputs of information. The system provides a converter section that translates the real-time output information into a digital data format. The system also provides an operations section that has an interface for receiving the digital data and transmits an alert regarding the operating temperatures. An archival section is provided for storing the real-time output information from the sensing section, the digital data from the converter section and the information transmitted from the operations section. The system also provides for a communications section for communicating the information generated, translated, stored and transmitted to systems on-board the airliner, one or more ground aviation control centers, or a combination of both.
Holistic Face-Down Recovery Apparatus And Method Therefor
A face-down recovery apparatus for use in rehabilitation of patients, particularly vitreoretinal surgical patients. The apparatus has a base and a housing that is pivotally connected to the base by an actuator. A support is positioned contiguously on the housing for received a user in a face-down position. The apparatus is moveable between a substantially vertical, upright orientation to a substantially horizontal orientation. The apparatus is in a substantially upright vertical orientation when the support receives a user in a standing position. The face of a user is secured in a face-down position in a face support, and the rest of the user is secured to the support in a standing position in an unrestricted manner permitting mobility. As the housing is tilted into a horizontal position, the user is positioned in a substantially horizontal orientation. As the user is tilted between the substantially vertical upright orientation and the substantially horizontal orientation, the user's face is continuously maintained in a face-down position in the face support.