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October 6th, 2007 #1
Drawings by Ben : New work on page 2: Glowbugs Awaken + Organic Planet
Hi guys an gals!
New stuff added to page 2! Thanks for looking!
The wind cut through the long grass as the souls of the dead wound through the night sky above. They had come to the Soul Tree, the place where all good souls travel to become one with the earth once more. For the bad souls who choose a different route, well - that is another story
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Here is a cover I drew for the recently released Candycreeps from Green Fairy Games, an RPG set in a twisted world where the undead have risen and live alongside the living - with a few genetically modified theme park mascots thrown into the mix too!
I also got to produce 4 chapter pages for the book, I'll post one here, if you'd like to see the rest - along with the other excellent art in the book - you will have to buy a copy
Then just to finish this thread off, here is a page of thumb print tribes people!
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After all these months of hard scribbling I am very pleased to announce that my second comic adventure Where Grows The Bitter Herb is finished, printed and available to buy from today! Bitter Herb continues the comic style established in Turtle Guitar, but readers should be prepared to embark on a longer journey through the unexplored world, to wild and wonderful environments meeting new creatures, some friendly and welcoming, some not!
Here is a little picture of the cover:
And here are some brand new sample pages, without the text getting in the way - these follow no particular order!:
If your interested in picking up a copy Click Here.
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Older stuff on the posts below!
With Halloween getting closer, i've been doing some seasonal work over the last couple of days, so...Trick or Treat!!
And here are some of the sketches/inks of Trick or Treaters for the above pic:
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This is my short, 6 page comic entitled Turtle Guitar!
I have removed the last 3 pages of Turtle Guitar to keep this thread manageable, if you would like to know how the story ends, please visit http://www.benpowis.net.
Thanks very much for taking the time to look!
~ ben
Last edited by Ben powis; March 19th, 2009 at 07:03 PM. Reason: Adding new work
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awesomeness!!! I love your style, especially w/ the book covers!!!!
October 6th, 2007 #3
Absolutely fantastic!!!
October 7th, 2007 #4
love the style duder,
Really merges with the tunes well. Great stuff mate.
WE need more artists like you here at CA.
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October 7th, 2007 #5
October 7th, 2007 #6
Lovely stuff. Really like the third one
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Love the vibrant colour and the stylised wee dudes. Great stuff, Ben.
October 15th, 2007 #8
Hiya guys,
Thanks to ArtemisDragon, ramonsk8, bhanu, Serpian, RocketEXE and Andyhep, you really made my day with your wonderful comments
I have added my new comic, Turtle Guitar,to the first post, its only fairly short, so give it a read in your lunch break! Appologies if its a bit crude too, I have never made a comic before!
Thanks again to all of you
All the best,
October 15th, 2007 #9
What a charming and semi morbid story! *Poor turtle lol*
Very lovely style, I love your line work, it's just so... awesome.
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October 15th, 2007 #10
Evocative, moody, fantastic.
Wonderful style. I love the way you've tried to visualise the sound of the different instruments. Great imagination.
Fall down seven times, stand up eight...
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October 15th, 2007 #11
yes yes yes, original style I adore.
euh my blog of course.
October 17th, 2007 #12
Squidittch - Thanks for your lovely comments
Nismo - Thanks too, i'm glad you find them moody!
Gax - Final thanks to you, I love your work too!
Really appreciate the comments and encouragement for you guys and gals, thanks for taking the time to look at my pictures
~ ben
October 17th, 2007 #13
your comic rocked my world. its so fuckign great man , wow. The story is great ,the sequence is delighting, the art as I said earlier is superb. Is it going to be published??
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Legacy trumps cost of Pan Am Games, president says
Mario Vázquez Raña says Toronto's Pan Am Games will leave behind much more than what they cost.
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When Mario Vázquez Raña stood up to announce in 2009 that Toronto would host the next Pan American Games, he had been dazzled by the city's "great illusion."
Toronto had put together a blockbuster $2.4-billion bid — promising new aquatic centres and stadiums, plus an athletes' village — in the hopes of transforming the city's crumbling sports facilities into world-class arenas.
Now four years later, Raña says the city has pulled it off.
"Every day that goes by, we have seen that we were right all along," said the president of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO), speaking through a translator.
Raña, 81, is in Toronto for the organization's general assembly, which runs Wednesday to Friday at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel. On the last day, he will announce the host of the 2019 Pan American Games.
The powerful Mexican media tycoon said in an interview Tuesday he was disappointed to see "negative reports" in Toronto media about the cost of the Games.
"I have to say, the Games leave behind much more (than) what they cost. The legacy that the Pan American Games leave behind to a country, it's impossible to add it up in numbers, but it's indeed quite large."
Toronto's 2015 Games budget is $1.4 billion, and that doesn't include the athletes' village or rail link.
But Raña, who toured the athletes' village site in April, said the improved facilities and infrastructure are worth it. Not long ago, the village location in the West Don Lands was an industrial wasteland.
"Toronto has really made us proud. We are hoping it will be one of the greatest sites of the Pan American Games," he said.
Although he will not tour any locations this week, Raña said he had reviewed facilities on paper and via video and many appeared to be ahead of schedule.
Raña apparently had not heard the news that organizers are set to receive a total of $7 million in bonuses if they deliver the Games on budget.
"What I can tell you for sure is that I have seen the great work that the organizing committee at a professional level is doing," he said.
About 350 delegates, including top officials from international sport federations from 41 countries, will attend this week's assembly. The cities competing for the 2019 Games are: La Punta, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; Lima, Peru; and Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.
When Raña became PASO president in 1975, the organization was struggling and in debt. He set about transforming the Games into a top-tier event — one that would leave behind a legacy for the cities that hosted them.
Asked about his own legacy, Raña said: "I can tell you that after the Olympic Games, the best games you will find are the Pan American Games."
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The Last Waltz Ensemble to perform at Tin Cup
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OCALA - One of the best-known rock concert movies is "The Last Waltz," featuring the final concert by The Band. That group - with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Levon Helm - made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Its last gig in 1978 was made into a documentary by director Martin Scorsese.
Now a touring group called The Last Waltz Ensemble recreates that show and will appear Thursday at 8 p.m. in The Tin Cup, 11 E. Silver Springs Blvd. in Ocala. For information call 690-6902.
It's quite a club concert considering the list of stars who turned up to play with The Band on that final night included Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr and Van Morrison.
The Last Waltz Ensemble includes Kris Gloer, Mark Kramer, Kevin Rutschman, Benji Shanks, Ted Pecchio, Tony Giordano and Jason Fuller.
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Steve Moore
"Deep Time"
Two-thousand word think-piece on how the drone/noise and electronic/techno undergrounds creep closer together in every boundary-blurring release from each camp: go!
Well, if you take a few steps back and think about it, these scenes have been culling from the same influences, using the same gear, and gravitating toward the same extended, repetition-based song structures since their most primordial origins, dating back to —
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I'm tryna sink into this new Steve Moore jam.
Lush synth tones straight from the midnight drive montage of a horror score. A rhythmic grid so deliberate in its creeping trajectory, until… that beat. Uhhhnnnnnnnnnn yeahhhhhhhhhhhh. Grid complicated, rhythms overlapping, head bobbing -> I'm locked into "Deep Time" (streaming below):
Steve Moore, one half of cosmic synth prog-lords Zombi (soon to be on tour with GOBLIN [yeah(!!!)]), continues his sterling solo catalog with Pangaea Ultima, a new LP due December 16 on Spectrum Spools. Peep that Robert Beatty cover art (yeah). Preorder it now and project your mind to the future moment of its arrival at your home. Oh, how thrilled you look. Now come back to the present, grease up your elbows, and toil your way through this work-a-day existence until that moment arrives IRL.
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The time change makes a big difference up here in the north. Driving to work at 6:30am is much easier when the sun is up. I don't spend as much time staring at my breath while the car warms up, and the timing belt doesn't seem to squeal quite as much. But the fog is still there. Only now, it's lit up in faint pinks and yellows instead of just sitting there soaking in the streetlight. New music from Redfish is just like these modest colors peeking through an otherwise monochrome landscape. Textured ambient backdrops deteriorate and warp, letting in beams of grainy percussion and washed out melodies on the band's newest self-titled release.
Redfish is made up Alexandre Navarro and Sasa Vojvodic (aka Letna), the two founders of the SEM record label based out of Paris. By combining their similar, yet unique flavors of electronic composition, they have created one of the richest, most intriguing minimal albums of the year, Redfish. Listen to the album stream below:
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Government Plates
Next week, Death Grips are finally releasing physical versions of NO LOVE DEEP WEB on Harvest/Capitol, over a year after an epic fallout with Epic.
Today, the Sacramento trio of MC Ride, Zach Hill, and Andy Morin have released a brand new album called Government Plates for free on SoundCloud and YouTube. It's available to download here or here.
Now take a deep breath and press play:
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Blood Orange
"You're Not Good Enough"
I don't want to be your friend. I hate you. You tried to talk to me in the cafeteria pizza line the other day when I was just trying to get my pizza and leave. You asked me how I'd been doing, complimented my new sneakers, and said, "We should hang out some time! Like old times."
"But I don't want to hang out with you, because you're stupid, because you… you…" wait, why am I reminding you? "Do you have amnesia, or did you forget that I scribble your name on my (OLD) sneakers in sharpie, that I took you to meet my parents, that I made you a cute little hat out of tinfoil and glued-on spaghetti (that you NEVER wore, by the way)? What about the time I told you I loved you? And the way you reacted? Didja forget? Guess ya did. Ok, spoiler - it involved a lack of pants and Susie from my pottery class. Really?
You know, some species of lizards can get their tail cut off and *FWIP* it grows back, easy as pie. Well, honey, sorry to be the one to tell you this, but I'm not a lizard. What's done is done. So when you try to kiss me in the elevator later, I hope you don't take it the wrong way when I laugh in your face. Because I have so much more self respect, y'know? "You're Not Good Enough."
Seriously, stop trying to talk to me in the pizza line, Matt, it's never going to happen. 'Cause, to reiterated, and in the words of Blood Orange's new single, off their new album Cupid Delux: "You're Not Good Enough" (streaming below):
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"Cloudsculpting," the first video from Kid606's new album Happiness, makes an unusual yet appropriate connection, demonstrating the obvious but heretofore unconsidered similarities between the acts of identifying shapes in the sky and picking disembodied boobs out of the rainbow static scrambled Spice Channel programming. Therefore, after watching, the most pressing issue would have to be the question of whether the female figure that begins to appear at 2:31 is meant to be God, an adult film actress, or both. Regardless of what Kid606 and the video's director (gif artist Sikfish) had in mind, there can be no doubt that Beavis and Butthead would've had a great time with this one. Thus, so too must we.
Luckily, Happiness has never been this easy to obtain. It can be downloaded, bought in 2xLP and CD formats, and/or digitally streamed here and watch the "Cloudsculpting" video below:
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Though Rani Mukherjee is busy promoting her forthcoming film, 'Mardaani', she revealed few details about her fairy tale wedding that took place in Italy. No photographs of the event were displayed till date, Rani spilled ...read more
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Rani Mukherjee's first release post marriage titled, 'Mardaani' gets 'A' certificate. This is first Yash Raj Films to have received 'A' certificate. The film has received 'A' certificate due to some objectionable dialogues. Youngsters below the age of 12 are not advisable to watch the movie. ...read more
Rani Mukherjee is all geared up for her next release, YRF's 'Mardaani' and the actress is visiting various cities in India to promote the film which is based on child trafficking. After seeking blessings at 'Kamakhya' temple in Guwahati, she prayed at Gujarat's Ambaji temple. Rani's visit to Amba...read more
Rani Mukherjee, the officially now Mrs. Rani Chopra is due to hit the silver screen with her much awaited and looked forward to film 'Mardaani'. Rani plays a cop in the film, much like the female version of our beloved 'Chulbul Pandey'. However, in real life, she is as kind-hearted an...read more
Rani Mukerji has tackled rumors about her marriage for several years. It finally took place earlier this year. Now after marriage, she has been bugged by pregnancy rumors. When she appeared in the popular dance reality show, it was reported from the sets that she needed help while climbing the st...read more
Rani Mukherji is gearing up for her first film after wedding. The film is 'Mardaani'. She recently visited the sets of popular dance reality show 'Jhalak Dikhla Ja'. Looking gorgeous in a black salwar, she seemed to have a really great time on the show. Judge Karan Johar who is known to share a g...read more
Rani Mukherjee who next film 'Mardaani' is due to release on 22nd August has got her eight-year-old niece to feature in a special promotional song for Pradeep Sarkar's 'Mardaani'. ...read more
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- COD or Chemical Oxygen Demand is the total measurement of all chemicals (organics & in-organics) in the water / waste water;
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Whereas as COD (Chemical Oxygen Demnad) - In this process , Use of strong chemical agent (such as potassium dichromate) is done to degrade both the organic as well as inorganic matter present in the wastewater samples. Also, COD values are always higher than the BOD values. Because COD includes both biodegradbale and non-biodegradable substances whereas BOD contains only bio-degradable.
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- Dear Ferrand your results may be correct because in case of natural water bodies as you observed the DO will be more, i appreciate your observation of natural agitation. In the same way natural water bodies will have an ability to purify water and acts as a sink for pollutants. That is why natural water bodies will have very low BOD values on the other hand BOD and COD are used to measure the degree of pollution in polluted water not for clean water. I think you got the answer
- COD includes both biodegradbale and non-biodegradable substances whereas BOD contains only bio-degradable. Hence COD is always greater than BOD
- BOD means Biochemical oxygen demand. The microorganisms use organic matter as a food source through oxidation which oxygen is consumed. COD, Chemical Oxygen Demand, is a measure of the total quantity of oxygen required to oxidize all organic material into carbon dioxide and water. COD values are always greater than BOD values, but COD measurements can be made in a few hours while BOD measurements take five days.
- What is the ration of bod/cod for sewage and waste water how wil find cod based on bod value please help me .
- There are not ratio between COD and BOD which correspond with all type of wastewater. The quality of wastewater is different from a source of discharge to another and from a region to another. However, for exemple in France, one usually assumes that, for domestic wastewater, 2 < COD/BOD5 < 3; for wastewater from food-industries, 1,5
- Usually in wastewaters the BOD values are around 30 to 70% of the COD 70%. It depends on the type of waste water as well as thw treatmnet used.
- Agree with Maria's answer. It varies for different wastewaters, the ratio commonly being 25-75% of COD
- I agree with the Tadjouwa answer and the COD value is always greater than BOD. commonly most of the researchers are deal with the COD when they analyze the waste water and BOD is generally focused on the drinking water samples because of the cost factor.
- In domestic wastewater BOD/COD ratio in almost about 0.5
- Both COD and BOD has same purpose, different approaches and meanings. Measuring Oxygen Demanding Wastes, by chemical method is carried out by COD and using biological species as seed, it is carried out by BOD.
As already known both are measure of Dissolved Oxygen (DO) required to oxidize dissolved organic pollutant in waste-water sample.
Although BOD is perfect test if carried out as per standard methods, it takes 5 days of time to know the results. which can quickly be carried out in 3 hours by COD (chemical method).
BOD is always lower than COD.
COD is based on chromic acid oxidation because it is strongest oxidizing agent. Assuming all Organic matter gets converted to CO2 and H2O.
BOD is based on the real demand for DO in sample under natural conditions.
Hence both are most important parameters while assessing water quality.
Please go through Encyclopedias on air, water, soil by some publishers ( i dont remember right now)
- We can use this BOD/COD relationship for assessing toxicity. If BOD is too lower compared to COD then the sample can be visualized as toxic, although its not confirmation. In general BOD to COD ration is 0.6+. The lower the ration higher is toxicity. If the sample is highly toxic then BOD can never be more than 0.2 at any cost.
- We use COD/BOD5 is more than 2.5 for the indication of industrial wastewaters. For municipal wastewaters BOD5/COD is generally 0.5 (in our cases).
- COD or Chemical Oxygen Demand is the total size of all chemicals (organic, with some exceptions and in-organic) in water or wastewater;
BOD5 measures the amount of oxygen that the bacteria consume to degrade the organic matter present in the water or wastewater.
The value of COD is greater than BOD5; usually a maximum of up to 4 times in the industries of medium size; but it varies greatly depending on the industrial process and especially on the nature of the substances discharged in the effluent.
It depends on the own characteristics of the specific wastewater.As a general rule: this ratio is 0.5 in a domestic sewer.
As this ratio is above this value means that the residual water is more biodegradable, and if smaller, that have a higher content of refractory or poorly biodegradable compounds.
COD values are generally higher than BOD, however, there is no real ratio. It depends on the treatment process i.e if the same process is used all the time under the same conditions. Other factors can affect both factors such as composition of the waste being treated.
Dear Dr. Udaya Bhanu
Do you have some references "BOD/COD relationship for assessing toxicity" can you please share with me
The ratio BOD: COD is a characteristic of a particular wastewater and is a simple and direct measure related to its biodegradability. That is, there is no absolute value for any residual water, but will directly depend on its composition.
It is usual to consider a wastewater that has a BOD ratio: COD with a value greater than 0.4 indicates that you can apply a biological treatment if necessary.
However, as this relationship will depend on the data quality of BOD and COD, analytical quality assurance should be applied, so that the data are sufficiently reliable.
In the case of the BOD, as this method is made applying an inoculum of microorganisms, among other things, you must ensure that toxic compounds are not present, in order to guarantee the correct grow of such microorganisms.
Thanks Dr. Maria Del Carmen Espinosa Lloréns for sharing your views with us
Is there any possibility for getting higher COD value than BOD value..?? whether it depends on the source of samples??
Thanks Munavar Iqbal and friends here...
I have a lot of unpublished work carried out in this area. However this para is intended for a better understanding of the concept.
BOD is based on activity of microbes. COD is based on chemical reaction (oxidation). If microbial seed we use for BOD is not active then it results in Higher BOD. It is as good as no microbe is added. Even if the same microbial seed is more active or more in volume, then also it results in lower BOD. It takes a lot of time and expertize to carry out BOD for 100% accuracy. Hence I believe in standardized BOD namely using a seed of uniform composition tested with glucose as standard.
To avoid all confusions Take it granted that COD of filtered samples free from inorganic compounds (mostly anions) alone is reliable.
Regarding using BOD5:CODCr ratio as an indicator of Toxicity, We need a lot of work to be carried out with different standard solutions, standardized microbes, toxicity tests etc.
Unfortunately I never had an oppurtunity to work on this demanding topic after my PhD days.
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An ergonomic support mountable on various seat frames has a static portion with anchors and mounts. The mounts adapt to fix said static portion to varying seat frames. An active portion is operatively engaged with the anchors of the static portion such that the active portion can move in and out of a plane defined by the frame of the seat. The active portion has a pressure surface with a smooth base level. There are convexities in the base level that impart a massage effect on a seat occupant. At least one actuator engages the active portion but only by an actuating linkage.
1. An ergonomic support mountable on various seat frames comprising:
a static portion having anchors and mounts, said mounts being adaptable to fix said static portion to varying seat frames;
an active portion operatively engaged with said anchors of said static portion such that said active portion can arch in and out of a plane defined by the frame of the seat, into a user selected position and such that said active portion can maintain said user selected position;
said active portion having a pressure surface with a base level, and having integrally formed rigid convexities in said base level; and
at least one actuator, each actuator engaging the active portion by only an actuating linkage.
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10. A lumbar support for a seat comprising:
at least two guide rods, said guide rods having mounts adaptable to mount said guide rods on a frame of a seat;
a pressure surface having a base level, with rigid integrally formed convexities in said base level, said pressure surface also having upper and lower rod mounts, said rod mounts engaging said guide rods and at least one of said upper or lower rod mounts being slideable along said guide rods;
a traction cable having a sleeve and a wire disposed to slide axially through said sleeve, said sleeve having a first end engaging an upper portion or a lower portion of said pressure surface and said wire having a first end engaging the other of said upper portion or said lower portion of said pressure surface; and
an actuator operatively engaged with a second end of said sleeve and a second end of said wire of said traction cable such that said actuator applies or releases traction to said pressure surface via said traction cable;
wherein application of said traction arches said pressure surface outward from a plane defined by said guide rods.
11. A method of manufactuiing an ergonomic support for a seat comprising:
mounting an active portion on a static portion, said static portion being mountable in a seat, said mounting of said active portion allowing said active portion to move relative to said 5 static portion, said movement being towards and away from on occupant of the seat, and said mounting allowing said active position to maintain a user selected position, and said active portion having a pressure surface with a base level;
engaging said active portion with an actuator for actuating said movement; and fabricating integrally formed convexities in said base level of said active portion.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is in the field of ergonomic supports for seats, especially automobile seats.
2. Prior Art
Ergonomic supports for seats, especially automobile seats that impart a massage type effect on the seat occupant, are known in the art. See, e.g., U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/536,425, incorporated by reference herein. Typically such prior art massage systems involve an active portion which moves toward and away from a portion of the seat occupant's anatomy to be supported, for example the lumbar spine. The active portion includes a surface that can be put into a variety of selectable positions supporting the spine to a greater or lesser degree. The moving or active portion of the lumbar support is typically a bowing or arching surface movable from a substantially flat position to a substantially bowed position which provides lumbar support.
The prior art devices also require a static portion. For example guide rails—which do not move—provide an anchor along which the active portion can slide or otherwise move through its range of selectable positions.
Alternative designs include push paddle type supports that extend or retract at the end of a linkage or through a channel. See, e.g., U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/798,657, incorporated by reference herein. Still other options include strap devices that can be tightened or loosened in their relationship with a fixed component in order to move a supporting surface closer or further away from the spine of the seat occupant. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,769,490, incorporated by reference herein. Generically, all of these systems have a moving or active portion and a static portion having some type of anchor on which the active portion is mounted and against which it can move to support the load of the seat occupant's weight.
Ergonomic supports for seats have actuating linkages. Frequently these linkages are traction cables such as Bowden cables. Bowden cables are comprised of a conduit containing a wire that slides axially through the conduit (also "sleeve", or "sheath") to apply or release traction on the active portion of the lumbar support. The traction moves the active portion into its supporting position and the release of the traction moves the active portion out of its supporting position. For example, in the arching type of ergonomic support the Bowden cable sleeve is mounted to one end of the arching pressure surface of the active portion and the Bowden cable wire is mounted to another end of the active pressure surface. Thereby, traction on the wire draws the two ends of the arching surface towards one another, inducing the arch that supports the seat occupant. Release of the tension allows the arching pressure surface to return to its flat position. Alternative actuating linkages may include rods, wires, rack and pinion devices, compression arrangements, eccentric wheels and the like. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,498,063, incorporated by reference herein.
Some prior art lumbar supports cycled automatically through a range of motion. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 6,007,151, incorporated by reference herein.
In the class of lumbar supports known in the art as massage systems, the pressure surface or active portion is modified by having rollers. The rollers are intended to impart a massage type feel to the seat occupant. Accordingly, the active portions are required to support an array of axles or pins on which to mount rollers, along with supporting the array of rollers themselves. The roller arrays in the prior art can be heavy, expensive and cumbersome. Moreover, the additional comfort imparted to the seat occupant by the presence of rollers is often only marginally better than the comfort afforded by the movement of the active portion of the lumbar support in the first place. In some configurations in some seats, empirical evidence indicates that rolling can be eliminated without sacrificing passenger comfort.
The presence of heavy and cumbersome active portions having roller arrays has, in the prior art, required rigid mounting of actuators. Actuators can be manual, but more typically are electrical motors for massaging systems. The actuators generally have an electrical motor operatively engaged with a gear assembly in a housing. The gear assembly typically has a seat or mount for one linkage portion, for example the wire of the Bowden cable, and the housing will have a seat or a mount for another portion of the linkage, for example the Bowden cable conduit. Because a heavy gauge of active portion components is necessary to support an array of rollers, larger motors and actuators are required to move the active portion on prior art massage systems. Moreover, the actuators and motors must be rigidly mounted to the static portion or anchor portion of the ergonomic support. Rigid mounting requires brackets which add further weight and expense.
Seat assemblers consider the "package size" of the entire device to be the widest, tallest and thickest dimensions of the ergonomic support unit as a whole. There is a continuing need in the furniture and automobile seat industry for reducing the total package size and weight, as well as the expense of ergonomic supports. Proliferating comfort systems in seats, such as heating and cooling ducts, require that traditional ergonomic devices such as lumbar supports should be made smaller and lighter. The prior art massage systems were large, heavy and expensive for two primary reasons. Large heavy active portions were required to support an array of rollers, and heavy mounting brackets were used to hold motors and actuators to the static portion of the unit. There is a need in the industry to reduce the weight, size and expense of the roller array on the active portion of a massaging lumbar support, and to reduce the width, thickness and weight of the unit as a whole, particularly by disengaging the actuators from being mounted directly to the static portion of the lumbar support.
The present invention is a massaging ergonomic support, such as lumbar support, that is smaller, thinner, lighter and more economical than prior art massaging lumbar supports. The present invention imparts the tactile effect of massaging, but without rollers. It does so by using an active portion or pressure surface that has integral undulations, corrugations or bumps on it, rather than being smooth. These surface variations may be imparted to the pressure surface of the active portion through molding in plastic or stamping in metal.
The massage lumbar support of the present invention further reduces size, weight and expense by eliminating the need for actuators to be directly mounted to the static portion of the ergonomic support. In the present invention, actuator gearboxes and motors are connected to the static and/or active portions of the lumbar support only by the actuating linkage, such as a Bowden cable. The weight and size of the mounting brackets is thereby saved. Instead, the actuators are capable of being mounted directly on any seat-frame. Accordingly, the added advantage of being readily customizable for mounting in any seat-frame is gained. Moreover, the size and power of the actuators and motors required to move the present pressure surface with molded surface variations is not as great as that required for prior art massaging lumbar supports.
Further features and advantages of the present invention, as well as the structure and operation of various embodiments of the present invention, are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and form a part of the specification, illustrate the embodiments of the present invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings:
Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like reference numbers indicate like elements,
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The active portion 54 has a textured, non-smooth surface with waves, corrugations undulations or bumps for imparting the desired tactile effect to a seat occupant. The active portion 54 has a pressure surface with a base level, that is "smooth." That is, the base level of the pressure surface is like the pressure surface in non-massaging examples of the prior art; when in a base position it is substantially flat and when it is in an arched position it is curvilinear along a continuous, un-varied or "smooth" path. The waves, corregations or other embodiments of the present invention rise or sink from the base level and vary its profile. The variations from the base level of a smooth profile may collectively be referred to as "convexities." It is these convexities that impart a massaging effect on a seat occupant as the pressure surface of the active portion of the lumbar support moves in and out or up and down.
Push paddle supports will have a pressure surface base level that does not change profile, but is extended or retracted for support. Tensioning straps have a pressure surface that does change profile in use, some times from concave to flat or from flat to convex. In either case a massage effect may be achieved, in advance over the prior art, by adding the convexities of the present invention to the base levels of those pressure surfaces.
Other aspects of the active portion 54, i.e., its interaction with the static portion 52 and actuators 56A and 56B, also remain according to the prior art. That is, in the depicted arching pressure surface embodiment of the present invention, the arching pressure surface 54 will have sliding mounts engaging the static guide rails 52. Moreover, Bowden cable attachments to the arching pressure surface 54 will apply and release traction according to the methods known in the prior art through Bowden cables 60. Likewise, in other embodiments not depicted, the interaction of an active portion, for example a push paddle or tensioning strap, with a static portion, for example a push paddle linkage or a strap anchor and tightener, are unchanged, and remain as dictated by the prior art. The present invention may be applied to augment pneumatic systems as well. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,637,076, incorporated by reference herein.
The pressure surface facing and acting upon a seat occupant has novel surface characteristics according to the apparatus and method of the present invention. The arching pressure surface 54 is non-smooth on its face interacting with the upholstery or cushion that overlies it and through which the pressure surface imparts a tactile effect on the seat occupant. It is within the scope of the present invention that the arching pressure surface have any conceivable surface characteristic, including without limitation, waves, undulations, bumps, corrugations, semi-cylindrical projections, convexities and the like. In the depicted embodiment, simple semi-hemispherical "bumps" are on the arching pressure surface. Such surface characteristics will move in relation to a seat occupant when the active portion of the ergonomic support is activated, in a manner that will have the same effect as the prior art rollers on massage systems. That is, there will be some necessary movement of the "bumps" orthogonal to the in and out motion of the arching pressure surface, concomitant with adjustment of the arching pressure surface. Also, more directly, the bumps will move in a substantially vertical direction with the arching pressure surface, as the actuators 56A or 56B move the entire arching pressure surface 54 up and down on the static portion 52. The movement of the surface convexities will impart a massaging-type comfort to the seat occupant. This will be true both as the pressure surface remains static and, more especially, as it is moved up and down and in and out.
The stimulating effect on the seat occupant can be maintained, in some embodiments, by the addition of the cycling technology known in the prior art, (as in previously referenced U.S. Pat. No. 6,007,151) which allows the pressure surface to move in and out automatically in cycles according to user controlled settings.
The amplitude and frequency of the surface undulations in the arching pressure surface 54 may be any of a wide variety of values. The preferred range is from 3 to 15 millimeters in both amplitude (depth) and frequency (separation). Varying the depth and separation of bumps or undulations allows the system of the present invention to be customizable to various seats, whether furniture or automobile seats, various customer parameters for the thickness of cushioning and/or upholstery to be placed over the arching pressure surface, or the amount of massage effect requested by a customer. The shape of the surface variations may also be any of a broad range of shapes and still be within the scope of the present invention. A broad range further increases customer choices for the tactile effect to be selected and for comparability with the other components of the seat into which the ergonomic support is to be installed. Accordingly, non-smooth surface variations may include hemispherical shapes, semi-cylindrical shapes, any parallelogram, sinusoidal patterns, undulations, corrugations or waves of varying, truncated, uniform or changing amplitude and frequency or virtually any other non-smooth pattern or configuration.
Stamping or molding such surface variations into the pressure surface greatly reduces the weight, size and expense of massage unit while achieving comfort levels, lumbar fatigue relief, and tactile effects substantially equivalent, or nearly so, with the prior art roller massage units. This is true whether the active portion of the lumbar support is an arching pressure surface as depicted herein, or alternatively is a push paddle or tensioning strap type support. The weight, cost, assembly time and expense of riveting roller pins or axles to an active pressure surface, installing the rollers on the axles and capping the ends of the axles to prevent the rollers from coming off of them, are all saved. A single stamped metal or molded plastic unit is substantially lighter than the fabricated assembly of the prior art roller arrays. While the stamped or molded variable pressure surface of the present invention has depth, its operative engagement to the static portion and to the actuating linkage are simpler and more streamlined, thereby saving space in terms of the overall depth of the entire unit, or "package".
The other aspect of the present system that saves weight, space and expense is the elimination of mounting brackets for the actuators. By eliminating the need for a heavy pressure surface required for the support of a roller array, the present invention makes it possible to use smaller, less powerful and less expensive electric motors to actuate smaller and less expensive actuators and gear boxes. Moreover, the reduced power needs eliminate the requirement for added rigidity that cause prior art massage units to mount the actuators to the static portions of their supports with heavy brackets (18 on
In the depicted embodiment, actuators 56A and 56B are operatively engaged with the static portion 52 and active portion 54 of the ergonomic support through Bowden cables 58 and 60. These traction cables move a tractive wire through a sleeve or conduit, which is actuated by the actuator gear box powered in turn by the electric motor. Drawing the wire into the sleeve puts tractive force on the ergonomic support unit in order to move the active portion 54 relative to the static portion 52. In most configurations, traction on the Bowden cable causes the active portion to arch, tighten or extend a pressure surface out towards the seat occupant or support, and relaxation of the wire within the sleeve reduces tension in order to return an active portion to a flatter base position.
Another common motion of ergonomic support units performed by actuation linkages such as Bowden cables 58 and 60 is to raise or lower the entire active portion of the support unit. In the depicted embodiment, a Bowden cable raises the arching pressure surface 54 upwards or downwards on the static guide rails 52.
The advantages gained by releasing the actuator mounting from the static portion 52 of the support unit include a greater adaptability for mounting of the unit in varying seat frames; a great reduction in the "packaging" size, and savings in weight and cost by removing the added part of a mounting bracket. Since the seat frame, on the periphery of the seat, and devices mounted to it are generally not considered to be within the "packaging," ergonomic support units with independent actuators linked by adaptable actuation linkages such as Bowden cables 58 and 60, allow the ergonomic support system of the present invention to be marketed as a much smaller "package."
In view of the foregoing, it will be seen that the several advantages of the invention are achieved and attained.
The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical application to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.
As various modifications could be made in the constructions and methods herein described and illustrated without departing from the scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the foregoing description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative rather than limiting. For example, push paddle supports or tensioning strap type supports could employ the present invention. Thus, the breadth and scope of the present invention should not be limited by any of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but should be defined only in accordance with the following claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
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Thornton, Arland, and Donald Camburn. 1989. "Religious Participation and Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Attitudes." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51(3): 641-53.
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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites San Pablo - Richmond Area, San Pablo's small print
Also known as
- Holiday Inn Express Hotel San Pablo Richmond Area
- Holiday Inn Express San Pablo Richmond Area
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for USD 10 per night
Cribs/Infant beds are available for USD 10 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.