Face Mask Vaccination Status Display via Integrated Markings

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Solution Overview

Problem

During pandemics, there is a need for efficiently conveying vaccination status information about individuals to others at a distance, especially in situations where visibility is impaired, such as when wearing face masks, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases.

Innovation Solution

A face mask design that prominently displays vaccination status information on its outer surface using marking areas defined by continuous lines or symbols, allowing for clear visibility from a distance and facilitating easy identification without requiring additional articles like headbands or pins.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If vaccination status information is displayed on the face mask, then information communication efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevaccination status information communicationVSAvoidface mask structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the vaccination status indicator with the face mask by integrating a headband or pin that attaches to the mask. This merging approach allows information communication to be embedded within the existing mask structure, reducing the need for separate display devices while maintaining visibility of vaccination status.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The face mask is designed to serve multiple functions: protection against respiratory diseases and display of vaccination status information. By making the mask universal, it eliminates the need for additional separate articles, thereby improving information communication without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Illumination intensity

If additional articles like headbands or pins are used to display information, then information visibility is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation visibilityVSAvoidnumber of articles

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of using multiple separate articles, the patent merges the information display function into a single integrated component (headband or pin) that attaches to the face mask. This reduces the number of separate articles while maintaining information visibility through standardized markings on the integrated component.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If information is displayed prominently for distance viewing, then information detection accuracy is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation detection from distanceVSAvoidmarking placement accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by placing standardized markings in specific locations on the headband or pin component. These markings are positioned to be clearly visible from a distance while using simple geometric patterns that can be manufactured with standard precision, avoiding the need for high-precision custom designs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11622586B2Patient face mask for identifying vaccination status and controlling movement within a medical facility

Publication Date: 2023.04.11 CHACKO CHERACKAL

AI summary

A face mask which displays information to another person. The facemask can display medical information. Specifically, the medical information displayed can be the vaccination status of the wearer, where the vaccination status of the wearer relates to the number of doses received for a vaccine regime of the vaccine which is used to prevent the spread of an infectious disease causing a pandemic. Markings on the outer surface of the face covering structure of the face mask convey the information.