Head Harness Holding Arrangements with Color and Geometric Coding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing head harnesses for patient interfaces lack comfort and clarity in fitting, often causing confusion and improper attachment, leading to uncomfortable pressure points and leaks, especially after cleaning when users struggle to reattach the harness correctly.
Innovation Solution
A head harness with distinctively configured and marked holding arrangements for the upper and lower halves, and right and left sides, featuring geometric and colored confusion prevention elements, such as touch-and-close fasteners and end stoppers, to ensure unambiguous assignment and secure fitting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If head harnesses are designed with simple attachment mechanisms, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to confusion and improper attachment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color coding to different holding arrangements on the head harness and corresponding mounting points on the patient interface. Each holding arrangement is assigned a specific color that matches its corresponding mounting point, allowing users to quickly identify correct attachment locations through visual color cues rather than complex mechanical guides.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces asymmetric geometric coding elements on the holding arrangements and corresponding mounting points. These asymmetric features create a unique shape language for each attachment point, ensuring that harness straps can only be correctly inserted into their designated mounting points, preventing confusion between similar-looking attachment locations.
2Device complexity
If head harnesses lack identification markings, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to user confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates color markings on the holding arrangements and corresponding mounting points to provide visual identification. These color codes serve as intuitive guides for users to match harness straps with the correct attachment locations on the patient interface, improving fitting clarity without adding mechanical complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses asymmetric geometric shapes and coding features on the holding arrangements and mounting points as identification markings. These asymmetric design elements create a unique visual language that helps users distinguish between different attachment points and ensures correct pairing, enhancing ease of operation while maintaining design simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a set of holding arrangements for a head harness in the region of a patient interface. The set comprises at least two holding arrangements which are distinguishable by identification markings and/or codings and are unambiguously assignable.