Medical Gown with Detachable Foldable Tie Straps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical gowns often expose healthcare workers to contaminants due to dangling ties, which can contact contaminated surfaces, and fail to accommodate workers of varying statures effectively.
Innovation Solution
A medical gown design featuring detachable and foldable tie members that can elongate for secure waist tying, allowing adjustable closure and minimizing dangling straps, made from fluid-resistant materials with antimicrobial agents, and accommodating various statures through adjustable sizing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the tie members are made long enough to secure around healthcare workers of larger stature, then the gown can accommodate various statures, but the ties may dangle onto the floor or other surfaces harboring germs or viruses
Solution Approach 1:
The tie member is segmented into a first section and a second section that can be detached from each other. The first section remains attached to the gown while the second section can be detached and discarded, allowing the gown to accommodate various statures without requiring excessively long ties that would dangle and contaminate surfaces
Solution Approach 2:
The second section of the tie member is designed to be detached and discarded after use. This allows the gown to have sufficient tie length for larger stature workers while eliminating the contamination risk by discarding the portion that extends beyond the needed length
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the tie members are made short to prevent dangling, then contaminant exposure risk is reduced, but the gown cannot accommodate healthcare workers of larger stature
Solution Approach 1:
The tie member transitions from a static fixed-length design to a dynamic adjustable design where the second section can be detached to extend the effective length when needed, and discarded when not needed, allowing adaptation to different wearer statures while maintaining contamination control
3Ease of operation
If the tie members are detachably connected to the arm members, then ease of donning is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tie member is pre-connected to the arm member through detachable connection means, allowing the wearer to simply attach the tie to their arm during donning without complex manipulation. The detachment and discarding of the second section is a simple preliminary action that resolves the contradiction between ease of donning and structural complexity
Data Source
AI summary
A medical gown includes tie straps detachably connected to sleeves of the gown. The straps are detachable by tugging on them once the gown is donned. The tie members are extendable, upon being detached, around the left and right sides to a back of the medical gown for tying together to form a closure around a waist of a wearer. The tie members may be sufficiently long to extend back around for tying in the front of the gown. A section of each of the left and right tie straps may be folded over lengthwise, a portion of the folded section of each tie member being detachably connected to the sleeves. Once the wearer detaches the folded tie members, the tie members may be unfolded and elongated as needed for adjustably sizing the closure securing the medical gown on the wearer.