Salvage System for Life Jacket

• US 20080258968A1
• Filed: 04/05/2006
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jung Sun Kim
• Original Assignee: Jung Sun Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Jung Sun
• Application Number:
  US11/911,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20080258968A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.07
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 2201/16 Radio
• CPC Class Codes: B63C 9/11 covering the torso, e.g. harnesses B63C9/081 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B63C 9/21 Boats, rafts, buoys or the like, characterised by signalling means, e.g. lights, reflectors B63C9/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/006 for emergency situations
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/002 Distress signalling devices, e.g. rescue balloons vehicle optical signalling for indicating emergencies B60Q1/52

Abstract

The present invention relates to a salvage system for a life jacket capable of enabling quick rescue of a victim by quickly finding a victim wearing the life jacket using an artificial satellite and displaying an electronic map provided with the position of the victim and the image of the victim on a screen in real time, when a marine accident or an aircraft accident occurs, and more specifically, to the life jacket, with a marine position tracking terminal attached thereto, which transmits and receives radio signals to and from a GPS satellite and a relay satellite to track the position of the victim, and allowing greater buoyancy to be generated in the head and the chest regions on the surface of the water, when wearing it. A salvage system for a life jacket according to the present invention comprises: a life jacket; a marine position tracking terminal, attached to the life jacket, which transmits a rescue signal and an inherent ID stored in a microcomputer to a plurality of GPS satellites via a rescue signal transmitter; a relay satellite receiving the signal from the marine position tracking terminal and the GPS satellites to calculate a coordinate position of a victim wearing the life jacket and provide it to an integrated geographic information system (GIS), and monitor the image of the victim using the calculated coordinate position; and a central control center receiving information on an electronic map provided with the coordinate position of the victim and the monitored image of the victim from the relay satellite and displaying them on a status screen in real time, thereby enabling follow-up measures for early rescue of the victim.

Claims

1. A salvage system for a life jacket comprising:

a life jacket;

a marine position tracking terminal, attached to the life jacket, which transmits a rescue signal and an inherent ID stored in a microcomputer to a plurality of GPS satellites via a rescue signal transmitter;

a relay satellite receiving the signal from the marine position tracking terminal and the GPS satellites to calculate a coordinate position of a victim wearing the life jacket and provide it to an integrated geographic information system (GIS), and monitor the image of the victim using the calculated coordinate position; and

a central control center receiving information on an electronic map provided with the coordinate position of the victim and the monitored image of the victim from the relay satellite and displaying them on a status screen in real time, thereby enabling follow-up measures for early rescue of the victim.

2. The salvage system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a rescue party carrying out action for rescuing the victim by receiving the information on an electronic map system provided with the coordinate position of the victim and the monitored image of the victim from the central control center or the relay satellite and displaying them on a screen.

3. The salvage system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the life jacket comprises:

a body part having a front plate contacting with the chest or the abdomen and a rear plate contacting with the back; and

a head part being removable from the body part to support the head, wherein larger buoyancy is generated in the head part and the front plate of the body part.

4. The salvage system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the life jacket comprises:

a body part having a front plate contacting with the chest or the abdomen and a rear plate contacting with the back; and

a head part being removable from the body part to support the head, wherein larger buoyancy is generated in the head part and the front plate of the body part.

5. The salvage system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the body part and the head part 10 are configured of an outer cover and an inner cover, the outer cover is made of a fabric having an anti-fungus function, and the inner cover is made of low density polystyrene.

6. The salvage system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the low density polystyrene forming the inner cover is made of about forty to forty five folds for the front plate of the body part and about thirty five to forty folds for the rear plate so that larger buoyancy is generated in the chest region of the wearer.

7. The salvage system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the life jacket is attached with a nigh light emitting means.

8. The salvage system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the night light emitting means is a LDP light emitting device and a light emitting tape.