Protective Eyewear Integrating Face Mask Stabilization
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Solution Overview
Problem
During medical procedures, medical face masks tend to migrate on the patient's face due to external scopes and tubes, and conventional eyewear can interfere with the mask's positioning, leading to ocular abrasion and discomfort.
Innovation Solution
The development of protective eyewear with a centralized connecting point and straps that securely attach to the head, featuring a fastener designed to receive and stabilize a medical face mask, preventing its migration and protecting the eyes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional goggles or eyewear are provided to cover the eyes of the patient, then eye protection is achieved, but the goggles interfere with the placement of the medical face mask causing mask migration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the eye protection function and mask stabilization function into a single integrated device. The protective eyewear includes a face mask interface that allows the medical face mask to be securely attached to the eyewear frame, creating a unified system that protects both eyes and maintains mask positioning without interference between components
Solution Approach 2:
The protective eyewear is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: protecting the eyes from abrasion, stabilizing the medical face mask position, and allowing clear vision. The integrated design enables the eyewear to serve as both eye protection and mask support structure
2Adaptability or versatility
If external scopes and tubes are connected to the medical face mask, then therapeutic and diagnostic functions are provided, but these scopes and tubes pull strongly on the mask causing mask migration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the mask stabilization function into the eyewear structure itself. The face mask interface on the eyewear frame provides a stable attachment point that distributes and absorbs the pulling forces from external scopes and tubes, preventing these forces from causing mask migration while maintaining all therapeutic and diagnostic connections
3Stability of the object's composition
If medical face masks are secured by straps to prevent movement, then mask positioning is improved, but the straps may cause discomfort or interfere with eyewear placement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent eliminates the need for separate mask straps by integrating the mask attachment directly into the eyewear frame. The face mask interface provides secure attachment points on the eyewear itself, distributing the securing forces across the eyewear structure rather than using separate straps that would interfere with eyewear placement or cause discomfort
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AI summary
A pair of protective eyewear for securing a medical face mask on a face of a patient to prevent migration of the medical face mask about the face of the patient during a medical or surgical procedure. The protective eyewear may include a main body having a nosepiece and a pair of eye portions secured in the main body. The nosepiece may include a fastener defining a mask-receiving space for releasable receipt of a ridge of a medical face mask. The eyewear may additionally include one or more straps or other head securing structure, extending from the main body, to secure the eyewear to a head of the patient. Further, there is provided a system protecting eyes of a patient during a medical or surgical procedure and a method of securing a face mask to a face of a patient to prevent migration of the medical face mask about the face of the patient during the medical or surgical procedure.