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

Xiu-Ling Huang; Jin-Rong Yang; Yu-Xiang Sun; Yi-Wen Chen; Xiu-Mei Wang; Shui-Miao Du; Zi-Kai Hua

doi:10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y

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

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¹ School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

² Sino European School of Technology of Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

^g eddie_hua@shu.edu.cn

Xiu-ling Huang received her Ph.D. degree from Jiangnan University, China. She is an associated professor at the School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University. She is currently the deputy director of the Intelligent Basics Parts Research Center of Shanghai University and a member of the 3D Printing Medical Device Special Committee. Research interests: wearable rehabilitation aids, intelligent orthopedic implants, advanced medical device technology.

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Zi-kai Hua is the director of the Intelligent Mechanical Elements Research Center (Shanghai University), director of the Orthotek Laboratory (ISO17025 accredited), and vice dean of Shanghai Xuhui Center Hospital (appoint on secondment, 2016). Dr. Hua is invited as a visiting professor at the JointsInSilico Research Center at Imperial College London, KTP fellow of University of Technology Sydney, etc. Prof. Hua developed long-term Medical & Engineering Interdisciplinary with hospitals and studies the engineering problem in Translational Medicine at the aspects of rehabilitation engineering, surgical implants, etc.

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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.

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Goggles / Face shield / Three-dimensional (3D) printing / COVID-19

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Xiu-Ling Huang, Jin-Rong Yang, Yu-Xiang Sun, Yi-Wen Chen, Xiu-Mei Wang, Shui-Miao Du, Zi-Kai Hua. Novel combined shield design for eye and face protection from COVID-19. Advances in Manufacturing, 2021, 9(1): 130-135 DOI:10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y