Patent ID: 9564067
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G09B

Claim:
1. An inflatable model of the human heart, the model comprising: an inflatable infrastructure inflatable to a three-dimensional partial representation of the human heart at a scale greater than 15:1, the infrastructure including a cross-sectional plane thereacross; and a walk-through passageway defined, at least in part, by the inflated infrastructure, and extending through the inflated infrastructure, wherein the cross-sectional plane defines a flat plane of the passageway; and a cross-sectional plane cut through a human heart thereby providing said partial representation of the human heart above said plane; wherein the passageway includes rooms representing chambers of the heart; and wherein the infrastructure includes inflatable walls inflatable to present inflated walls defining, at least partly, walls of the rooms representing chambers of the heart and the passageway, said inflated walls extending upwardly from the cross-sectional plane to define the three-dimensional partial representation of the heart thereabove; physical representations of internal portions of the human heart within said inflatable infrastructure; and an outside surface representing, in shape and contour, the outside surface of the human heart in an inflatable state of the inflatable infrastructure, and extending upwardly from said cross-sectional place and over four rooms representing each of the chambers of the human heart; and wherein said inflatable infrastructure includes inflatable walls separating said rooms representing chambers of the heart and wherein said passageway including physical representations of internal parts of the heart other than chamber walls, including a physical representation of a heart valve.