Advances in Manufacturing ›› 2021, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (1): 130-135.doi: 10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y

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Novel combined shield design for eye and face protection from COVID-19

Xiu-Ling Huang1, Jin-Rong Yang1, Yu-Xiang Sun1, Yi-Wen Chen1, Xiu-Mei Wang1, Shui-Miao Du2, Zi-Kai Hua1   

  1. 1 School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People's Republic of China;
    2 Sino European School of Technology of Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People's Republic of China
  • 收稿日期:2020-07-30 修回日期:2020-09-24 发布日期:2021-02-27
  • 通讯作者: Zi-Kai Hua E-mail:eddie_hua@shu.edu.cn

Novel combined shield design for eye and face protection from COVID-19

Xiu-Ling Huang1, Jin-Rong Yang1, Yu-Xiang Sun1, Yi-Wen Chen1, Xiu-Mei Wang1, Shui-Miao Du2, Zi-Kai Hua1   

  1. 1 School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People's Republic of China;
    2 Sino European School of Technology of Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People's Republic of China
  • Received:2020-07-30 Revised:2020-09-24 Published:2021-02-27
  • Contact: Zi-Kai Hua E-mail:eddie_hua@shu.edu.cn

摘要: The World Health Organization emphasized the importance of goggles and face shields for protection of medical personnel at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsurprisingly, almost all countries suffered from a critical supply shortage of goggles and face shields, as well as many other types of personal protective equipment (PPE), for a long period, owing to the lack of key medical material supplies and the inefficiency of existing fabrication methods arising from the need to avoid crowds during the outbreak of COVID-19. In this paper, we propose a novel combined shield design for eye and face protection that can be rapidly fabricated using three-dimensional printing technology. The designed prototype eye-face shield is accessible to the general public, offering more possibilities for yield improvement in PPE during emergent infectious disease events such as COVID-19.

The full text can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y

关键词: Goggles, Face shield, Three-dimensional (3D) printing, COVID-19

Abstract: The World Health Organization emphasized the importance of goggles and face shields for protection of medical personnel at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsurprisingly, almost all countries suffered from a critical supply shortage of goggles and face shields, as well as many other types of personal protective equipment (PPE), for a long period, owing to the lack of key medical material supplies and the inefficiency of existing fabrication methods arising from the need to avoid crowds during the outbreak of COVID-19. In this paper, we propose a novel combined shield design for eye and face protection that can be rapidly fabricated using three-dimensional printing technology. The designed prototype eye-face shield is accessible to the general public, offering more possibilities for yield improvement in PPE during emergent infectious disease events such as COVID-19.

The full text can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y

Key words: Goggles, Face shield, Three-dimensional (3D) printing, COVID-19