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Inflator

A politician or other person who favors policies promoting inflation. For example, a business organization may be an inflator if it believes that easy credit afforded by inflationary policies outweighs the problems of higher prices.
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During IPPV, pressure in pipe (7) inflates the balloon (6) which impinges against the ring (8) which blocks the exit port and directs gas to the patient.
The patient inflating valve in anaesthesia and resuscitation breathing systems
Once in the water, he tried to inflate his life raft by pulling the beaded handle on the parachute assembly.
Mishap survivors
The data from each sensor is evaluated independently, and if it is determined to deviate from programmed standards of safe vehicle behavior by a certain predetermined degree, an electronic signal is sent to the airbag inflator, which causes the airbag to inflate.
Honda Develops World's First Production Motorcycle Airbag System
The warnings that such sensors could provide might boost safety by making it possible to inflate air bags sooner in a severe crash.
Curbing air bags' dangerous excesses: new smarts, new sensors, and variable inflation could reduce injury and death
Car-maker Honda has invented an air bag that inflates twice as quickly and reduces the impact of a crash.
New 'safer' car airbag; INTERNATIONAL JAPAN
Two blue-ribbon panels of the time reported that such regulations were frequently being used to limit residential development to large, expensive single-family homes and that the effect of this was to restrict the supply and inflate the cost of all housing.
The mortgaged generation: why the young can't afford a house
Ms Kroes commented: "Multilateral interchange fee agreements such as MasterCard's inflate the cost of card acceptance by retailers.
Europe warns MasterCard over illegal fees
When a severe frontal or side impact crash occurs, sensors trigger a chemical reaction inside the airbag module, and this causes the airbag, which is folded and packed like a parachute inside the steering wheel, dashboard, or seat side panel, to inflate.
The Knowledge
Mechanics need a bigger tire inflation cage to stay out of harm's way, especially when they have to inflate big tires, meaning ones larger than HEMTT tires.
Bigger cages available
If the rim appears undamaged and the tire still has more than 80% of its TM recommended inflation pressure, you can inflate the tire while it's still on the vehicle.
Never tire of tire safety
* The nitrogen gas enters the air bag and begins to inflate it.
TPEs in air bag cover applications
The scientists conducted an experiment with two groups of male and female frogs - one in which the females could inflate and the other in which they couldn't.
Female toads 'grow fat' to thwart unwanted mates!
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