Patent ID: 9392824
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: A41D,A61L

Claim Text:
1. A self-disinfecting protective suit comprising: arm sleeve, leg, and chest areas configured to cover a wearer, a plurality of pocket clusters located on predetermined areas of the suit, wherein each pocket cluster comprises a plurality of individual pockets, each individual pocket comprising a flexible impermeable chamber covered by and sealed along an outer peripheral edge with a flexible porous external layer forming an internal volume, said flexible porous external layer being a part of an external surface of said protective suit, said internal volume of each pocket containing a disinfecting solution, a plurality of inflatable chambers throughout the protective suit, wherein each of said individual pockets further comprises one of said plurality of inflatable chambers positioned behind said flexible impermeable chamber, said plurality of inflatable chambers are configured to cause pressurization of said disinfecting solution when the plurality of inflatable chambers are at least partially inflated, a rigid backing layer attached and sealed along its peripheral edge along an inside surface of said protective suit, the rigid backing layer positioned behind the flexible impermeable chamber of each of said individual pockets, wherein said inflatable chambers predominantly expand in a direction towards said flexible porous external layer, wherein said rigid backing layer is configured to limit foreshortening of said external surface of said protective suit when the inflatable chambers are inflated, and wherein inflation causes compression of said flexible impermeable chambers and said disinfecting solution is urged to flow from said internal volume through the porous external layer and spread over said predetermined areas of said external surface of said protective suit so as to disinfect thereof.