E-Rescue System (TO.016)

A Spanish SME has developed and patented a device for vehicle seats with emergency kit and stretcher incorporated. It is a fully-integrated device in car seats. The company is looking for technical cooperation, joint-venture agreements and licence agreements.

Description:
When it comes to rescuing an injured person from a vehicle following a traffic accident, it is very frequently necessary to immobilize the person by keeping the head-neck-column of the person immobilized in order to be able to proceed to his or her extraction or extrication from the vehicle so that they can be taken to the nearest hospital. In order to immobilize the victim there exists specific rescue equipment such as soft collars, extrication jackets, back boards, etc., which are brought and applied by the rescue teams. In theory, this rescue equipment has a series of drawbacks.
The first drawback is that the equipment has to be available at the moment of the rescue, which is not always the case, as for example in situations in which the rescue has to be carried out with considerable urgency, even before the arrival of the recovery teams at the site of the accident, and when, in the case of a multiple accident, the recovery teams do not have sufficient equipment for being applied to all the injured people needing it.
Another drawback, especially important when it comes to immobilizing the neck-column axis of the injured person by means of an immobilization board, is that, in order to be able to attach that board to the back of an injured person who is still sitting in his or her seat inside the vehicle, it is usually necessary to move the person away from the back of the seat in order to introduce the board between the back of the injured person and the back of the seat, which, on the one hand, requires moving the person with the danger that this could cause spinal injuries and, on the other, in order to introduce the board between the back of the injured and the back of the seat, it is necessary to have some maneuvering space which is not always available in vehicles that have been involved in accidents, and finally, the application of those boards requires a length of time that in some cases is excessive under the circumstances of the accident or of the person who has to be rescued.

Innovative Aspects:

• The installation of the seats in the assembly line would not be altered by the addition of this system.
• E-Rescue System® does not alter the aesthetics, ergonomics, quality or geometry of the seat. The system is hidden.
• The evacuation of people with this system is always faster and safer than conventional methods of rescue teams, because the patient is not handled during the immobilization process.
• Each passenger has the system fully integrated into their seat. This is an important advantage, because the ambulances are usually equipped with a single kit. In addition, any person involved in the accident scene may help the victim while awaiting the arrival of emergency services.

Current stage of development of the technology:
-Development phase (Prototype)

Financial source of the technology:
Private funding

Competitive advantages:
The system can be installed during manufacturing process.

Current state of intellectual property:
Patent applied
Comments:
Patent application number: 20100001545

Type of collaboration sought:

-Technical cooperation
-Joint venture agreement
-Manufacturing agreement
-License agreement

Type of partner sought:
The invention comes within the technical field of seats for vehicles and particularly in the sector of vehicle seats that are at least partially separable from the structure of a vehicle in the event of rescue.

Comments: Market opportunity: Armored vehicles sector.