Customized design and 3D printing of face seal for an N95 filtering facepiece respirator.

Filtering Facepiece Respirator (FFR) is the most common respirator users in the health care environment utilize for personal protection from outside particles. Comfort and fit are important while wearing an FFR. This paper proposes a novel technology to produce customized face seal design for improv...

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Publicado en:Journal of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 226 - 235
Autores principales: Cai, Mang, Li, Hui, Shen, Shengnan, Wang, Yu, Yang, Quan
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2018
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          Cai, Mang
          Li, Hui
          Shen, Shengnan
          Wang, Yu
          Yang, Quan
        affil: School of Power and Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 299 Bayi Road, Wuhan, China
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          Printing, Three-Dimensional
          Respiration
          Masks
          Occupational Health Equipment and Supplies
          Carcinogens
          Environmental Exposure
          Human
          Comfort
          Scanners Methods
          Engineering
          Microtechnology
          Polymers
          Pressure
      ab: Filtering Facepiece Respirator (FFR) is the most common respirator users in the health care environment utilize for personal protection from outside particles. Comfort and fit are important while wearing an FFR. This paper proposes a novel technology to produce customized face seal design for improving the wearing comfort and fit of FFR wearers. In order to customize the design of face seals, we scanned the faces of three subjects using three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning method. A customized face seal for a 3M 8210 N95 FFR for each headform was designed using reverse engineering technique. Next, the face seal prototypes were fabricated with Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic using the 3D printing method. A force sensing system based on Arduino Uno R3 was developed, and the force sensor of this system was inserted between the FFR and headform to measure contact pressure. Experimental results showed that the newly designed FFR face seal provided the subjects with an improved contact pressure.
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