A magnetic spa jet is provided. The device includes a housing having a base and a perimeter sidewall defining an interior volume. A first magnetic member is affixed to a shaft, wherein the shalt extends through an opening disposed in the base such that the first magnetic member is disposed within the interior volume. An impeller includes a second magnetic member on a lower side thereof, wherein the second magnetic member is magnetically attracted to the first magnetic member. Upon rotation of the first magnetic member about the shaft, the second magnetic member rotates the impeller in kind. A cap is removably securable to the housing about the perimeter sidewall, wherein the cap includes a plurality of apertures therethrough.

Many devices with “limbs” or “arms” are susceptible to damage when a user bends or twists a joint of the limb or arm beyond its design point or in a direction other than intended. This is common with children's toys. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide children with toys employing fluidic actuators that can be bent, twisted, deformed and yet recover subsequently allowing the intended motion to be performed. Further, it would be beneficial by providing devices that employ fluidic actuators, and hence are essentially non-mechanical, to provide users not only of toys but other devices with driving mechanisms that are not susceptible to wear-out such as, by stripping drive gears, etc., thereby increasing their reliability and reducing noise. Fluidic devices allow for high efficiency, high power to size ratio, low cost, limited or single moving part(s) and allow for mechanical springless designs as well as functional reduction by providing a piston which is both pump and vibrator.

The present invention is a device for transcutaneous application of CO.sub.2, which comprises: a therapeutic chamber comprising at least a portion to receive a part of a patient's body to which the carbon dioxide is to be applied, an inlet/outlet pipe connecting the chamber with a CO.sub.2 distribution system, the said pipe connecting the chamber with a CO.sub.2 distribution system, wherein a gate valve for sealing the chamber is installed in the chamber where the inlet/outlet pipe is installed; the CO.sub.2 distribution system comprising a housing where at least the following components are installed: a first pipe with a first valve for suction of air out of the chamber, a second pipe with a second valve for supplying CO.sub.2 from a tank; wherein the first and second pipe are combined into the inlet/outlet pipe upstream of the valves; at least one ventilator for ensuring air flow through the said valves and inlet/outlet pipe, an outlet pipe for leading the used air from the chamber through the wall to the external environment of the building where the device is installed; and at least one tank for storing CO.sub.2 suitably connected to the second pipe.

Systems and methods for nitric oxide (NO) generation systems are provided. In some embodiments, an NO generation system comprises at least one pair of electrodes configured to generate a product gas containing NO from a flow of a reactant gas. The electrodes have elongated surfaces such that a plasma produced is carried by the flow of the reactant gas and glides along the elongated surfaces from a first end towards a second end of the electrode pair. A controller is configured to regulate the amount of NO in the product gas by the at least one pair of electrodes using one or more parameters as an input to the controller. The one or more parameters include information from a plurality of sensors configured to collect information relating to at least one of the reactant gas, the product gas, and a medical gas into which the product gas flows.

A liner for use with a basin to contain a liquid features a plurality of bodies of flexible plastic. Portions of an inner face of a first body of flexible plastic are joined to corresponding portions of an inner face of a second body of flexible plastic, through which a plurality of openings are formed, to provide a multi-layer body of flexible plastic.

Other portions of the inner face of the first body of flexible plastic are not joined to corresponding other portions of the inner face of the second body of flexible plastic, defining an air conduit between the first body of flexible plastic and the second body of flexible plastic for guiding pressurized air substantially from an air discharge apparatus.

A portable ottoman is described. The portable ottoman can be placed on the bathing surface of a right-hand or left-hand bathtub or placed on the bathing surface of a shower and is designed for use by ambulatory or non-ambulatory individuals. The portable ottoman can also be used in a non-bathing environment, for example to assist with dressing. The portable ottoman has two or more legs, each leg having one or more feet. The portable ottoman rests on two or more feet that are positioned on the bathing surface or on the floor surface adjacent to the user.

An apparatus for use in applying a therapy to a human limb includes a bag for surrounding all or part of the limb. The apparatus also includes a connection arrangement, mounted to a wall of the bag in a distal portion of the bag, that enables therethrough a flow of a gas between a pressure-regulating device and an interior space of the bag. The apparatus also includes a gas-permeable strip affixed to an interior surface of the bag and having a length equal to at least 70% of the bag's length. The distal end of the strip is in communication with the connection arrangement in the distal portion of the bag, and a proximal end of the strip is disposed in a proximal portion of the bag. The strip contains a partially compressible, gas-permeable material forming a lengthwise gas-flow pathway.

An apparatus for use in applying a therapy to a human limb includes a bag for surrounding all or part of the limb. The apparatus also includes a connection arrangement, mounted to a wall of the bag in a distal portion of the bag, that enables therethrough a flow of a gas between a pressure-regulating device and an interior space of the bag. The apparatus also includes a gas-permeable strip affixed to an interior surface of the bag and having a length equal to at least 70% of the bag's length. The distal end of the strip is in communication with the connection arrangement in the distal portion of the bag, and a proximal end of the strip is disposed in a proximal portion of the bag. The strip contains a partially compressible, gas-permeable material forming a lengthwise gas-flow pathway.

Provided is a bidet device. The bidet device according to the present invention comprises: a seat as a place to sit; a steaming chamber housing which is imbedded in a bidet tank coupled to one side of the seat and has built-in parts therein; a nozzle for hip fumigation, which is connected to the steaming chamber housing for jetting medicinal steam; and a steam generator which is provided in the steaming chamber housing and connected to the nozzle for hip fumigation, allowing the medicinal steam and medicinal extracts generated for hip-fumigation bath to be supplied to the nozzle for hip fumigation, wherein the steam generator and a medicine container of the steaming chamber disposed in the steaming chamber housing are integrally installed to eject the fumigated medicinal steam and medicinal extracts of drugs into a stool.

A nano-bubble water generating apparatus containing an application gas includes a motor, a pump integrated with the motor for supplying liquid, typically water, from an inlet pipe under a predetermined pressure through a supplying pipe to a pressure tank, a nano-bubble water generating tube mounted at the water entrance of a pressure tank, an electronic control portion, a pressure adjuster including an outer air inflowing portion to introduce an outer air or a specific gas supplied thereinto to control a pressure in the pressure tank, uniformly and a pressure adjusting portion airtightly coupled on the upper portion of the outer air inflowing portion to adjust an amount of outer air or specific gas to be supplied, and a nano-bubble water expanding tube for expanding and shattering nano-bubble water through an outlet pipe from the pressure tank, so that the size of the nano-bubble water is better micronized.