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Moovit helps you find alternative routes or times. Skip to main content. More Information about ISB. Contact ISB. Call Us Email Us info isbscience. Used primarily for wheelchairs, a FIPS-contoured insert provides advanced posture control by gently holding a person in position.
By distributing seating pressure evenly, FIPS improves blood circulation and relieves pressure from pressure points. In short, FIPS helps slow progressive deformities, improves body functions, and eases the soreness and fatigue associated with confined or prolonged seating. Producing a FIPS insert is an easy process that takes less than a day and does not require expensive equipment.
Within minutes, the liquid ingredients set. All that is left is trimming of any excess material and covering. For patients with less-severe debilitations where complex contouring is not required, Dynamic Systems offers a fabric finish molding bag that is pre-upholstered and ready for immediate use after the FIPS insert sets.
With slight modifications, the FIPS process is well-suited for prosthetic cosmesis. Prosthetic limbs incorporating SunMate materials have the natural feel of flesh and can be molded into a variety of muscle tones and dyed to match exact skin color. Once cured, the SunMate foam prevents friction between the shoulder skin and the prosthesis, creating a soft, comfortable interface.
Furthermore, the open-celled structure of the foam allows it to breathe, preventing heat buildup. The same medical advances applied to the treatment of humans can be easily transferred to veterinary applications. When a large animal suffers a leg injury that requires bracing or splinting, healing can be a long, slow process. Using a layer of cushion material beneath an orthotic brace can speed up healing, however. Equine Prosthetics, Inc. Thor is a year-old, thoroughbred gelding with a right hind foot prosthesis.
The majority of his leg is present, although completely nonfunctional from the fetlock down. An accident had caused trauma to the leg, severing his deep and superficial flexor tendons and his lateral suspensory, and breaking his lateral splint bone. Equine Prosthetics rescued him with the intention of putting him to sleep, because his condition was so unusual and extreme, but the company learned that he could be saved and kept comfortable if fitted with a special, customized prosthesis.
Equine Prosthetics needed a molding system that could accommodate complex contours and still provide impact resilience. The goal is to help these children see that it is indeed possible to overcome such an obstacle. The FIPS technology is also a catalyst to new viscoelastic foam applications extending far beyond the world of medicine. Performance Analysis, a motorsports engineering and design firm that manufactures seat safety systems, uses FIPS in professional cars for, among other properties, its low level of toxic emission in the event of a fire.
The SunMate product line traditionally does not contain fire retardants, but Dynamic Systems offers a fire-retardant additive for applications in which regulations require the material to pass specific tests. In Formula 1, SunMate materials have been selected for head and neck supports, due to their comfort, light weight, and versatility. The company is offering bikers hours of newfound riding comfort, since motorcycles are typically deficient in shock absorbers and lumbar supports.
In just 3 months, it received responses to its advertisement. According to Dynamic Systems, motorcycle saddles are easy to refurbish with either SunMate or Laminar cushioning. Motorcyclists who have had their seats refurbished with these foams have reported reduction and elimination of backaches, stiffness, and numbness that result from prolonged riding. Additionally, they maintain that the improved saddles relieve them of pressures induced by seams and rivets on jeans, as well as items in pockets, such as wallets and change.
Yet another organization, Toklat Originals, Inc. SunMate is also used to line the starting gates at racetracks, as well as areas in and around stables, to protect the often easily excitable horses from injury. Dynamic Systems also dabbles in the arts with its foam products. At the Rhode Island School of Design, a student created a contemporary lounge chair that incorporated a ball of Pudgee foam, for a course whose objective was to create a piece of furniture featuring novel or unconventional materials.
The ball doubled as a spring-like structural support and a seat cushion. Other pieces of contemporary furniture have been designed by art students, including a Pudgee-stacked bench and a Pudgee sofa lounge. In fashion and design, a gown-tailoring service and dress design company by the name of Design Studios is using full-size body casts made from FIPS foam to create customized dresses. The owner of Snohomish, Washington-based Design Studios started the company to fulfill consumer demand for custom dress forms that accommodate different sizes and shapes, and reduce the number of time-consuming fittings and alterations required for making tailored clothing.
The owner experimented with a variety of pourable molds to create body casts, but quickly discovered that once set, they would either be too soft, too rigid, too powdery to work with, or otherwise incapable of withstanding the constant pinning and manipulation that are essential in tailoring.
Soon thereafter, the owner learned about the FIPS process from a nearby engineering laboratory. She contacted Dynamic Systems, and technicians helped her determine the appropriate formulations to successfully create body molds to fit her needs. According to Dynamic Systems, the molds turned out to be so accurate, that clients need only show up for two fitting sessions. In recreation, U. Aqua Sport, Inc. The circular-shaped raft, intended for whitewater rapid attractions at theme parks, features an internal chamber filled with SunMate foam.
This layer of cushioning enhances the safety of amusement park patrons who choose to confront the rugged rapids. Recently, Dynamic Systems has seen increased interest in use of the firmest formulation of SunMate for archery targets. The material absorbs severe impact, weathers well, and is durable enough to withstand thousands of shots, allowing for longer use of a target. Another advantage of this material is that it is practically self-healing. Arrows from an pound pull bow may penetrate up to 8 inches and be removed by hand with little or no effort arrows are very difficult to remove from most target materials and with very little damage to the material.
Coming full circle to the initial NASA application, SunMate and Pudgee materials are making their way into the seats of private and commercial aircraft, as well as into the seats of helicopters. In Hendersonville, North Carolina, two helicopter pilots had a harrowing experience when their helicopter crash-landed because of engine failure. Fortunately, both pilots walked away with only minor injuries, due in part to the special high-impact absorption of the Dynamic Systems cushions in their seats.
The impact-absorption capabilities of SunMate make the material a good match for ejection seating in military aircraft. Recent tests by the U. Spinning back to NASA, the Space Agency recently built a demanding obstacle course, placed over a special 4-inch-thick SunMate cushion floor, to evaluate astronaut post-flight performance. Astronauts who return from space experience difficulty with balance and walking as they re-adapt to gravity on Earth.
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