Patent ID: 7901193

Claim:
A therapeutic inflatable cell apparatus pump assembly, the assembly comprising a common pump unit, a controller, and first and second valves, each of the valves comprising a cycle control valve member, said cycle control valve member being provided with at least one fluid passageway and each of the valves being adapted to be positioned to predetermined positions so as to regulate fluid quantity in respective therapeutic inflatable cell apparatus, wherein the first valve being adapted to perform at least one respective therapeutic inflation/deflation sequence for its respective therapeutic inflatable cell apparatus which is different from at least one therapeutic inflation/deflation sequence which the second valve is arranged to perform, wherein the controller is provided with control data, the control data being representative of instructions for controlling the pump unit and the valves to perform the respective therapeutic inflation/deflation sequences, and the assembly further comprising a first socket associated with the first valve and a second socket associated with the second valve for connection to its respective therapeutic inflatable cell apparatus to supply air from the respective valve, the assembly being such that when air is required to be supplied to at least one of the valves for a therapeutic inflation/deflation sequence, the controller activates the common pump unit and air is pumped to an air outlet of the pump to feed air to the valves, wherein the first and second valves are operable both singularly and simultaneously to singularly or simultaneously supply air to the first and second sockets.