Mobile Clean Room with On-Board Filtration for Inter-Facility Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Moving medical devices or components between clean rooms requires substantial packaging and labor to maintain a clean environment, leading to delays and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A mobile clean room system with an interior volume, air quality system, on-board power supply, and electric tractor, controlled by a controller that monitors and manages air quality and positioning, allowing seamless transfer between stationary clean rooms while maintaining a sterile environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If materials are moved between clean rooms using traditional packaging methods, then the clean environment is maintained, but substantial packaging materials and labor are required
Solution Approach 1:
The system transforms the static clean room environment into a dynamic mobile clean room that can move between locations. The mobile clean room includes a movable enclosure with wheels, allowing the clean environment itself to be transported rather than requiring packaging of materials. This resolves the contradiction by making the protective environment mobile rather than requiring complex packaging.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile clean room acts as an intermediary between stationary clean rooms, providing a controlled environment for material transfer. Instead of directly moving materials between clean rooms (requiring packaging), the mobile clean room serves as a mediating vehicle that maintains the clean environment during transit.
2Reliability
If materials are moved between clean rooms with packaging, then contamination is prevented, but delays occur in the manufacturing process
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile clean room is prepared in advance by establishing the clean environment before material transfer is needed. The system pre-configures the movable enclosure with appropriate filtration and environmental controls, so that when materials need to be moved, the protective environment is already ready, eliminating setup delays while maintaining contamination prevention.
3Loss of substance
If a mobile clean room is used to transfer materials, then packaging needs are reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile clean room is designed as a universal system that can transfer multiple types of materials between different clean room locations. The movable enclosure, propulsion system, and environmental controls serve multiple functions: maintaining pressure differentials, filtering air, providing heating/cooling, and enabling movement. This multi-functionality reduces the need for specialized packaging for different material types while the standardized system design manages complexity.
4Ease of operation
If traditional material handling is used between clean rooms, then labor requirements are high, but the process is simpler to implement
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile clean room is equipped with self-propulsion capabilities through an integrated propulsion system with wheels, allowing it to move autonomously or with minimal assistance between clean room locations. The system includes self-monitoring of environmental parameters and automated control of filtration and pressure systems, reducing the labor required for manual pushing, positioning, and environmental management while significantly improving transfer efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
A mobile clean room is configured to provide a clean room environment while moving components between a first stationary clean room and a second stationary clean room. The mobile clean room includes an interior volume and an air quality system configured to maintain a clean room environment within the interior volume. The mobile clean room includes an on-board power supply, an electric tractor coupled to the mobile clean room and configured to move the mobile clean room, and a controller that is operably coupled with the filtration system and the on-board power supply. The controller is configured to monitor and control performance of the air quality system, monitor performance of the on-board power supply, and communicate with a stationary controller controlling operation of the first stationary clean room and/or the second stationary clean room.