Pre-Sterilized Glove Insert for Containment Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing glove systems for containments require extensive pre-use checks, decontamination, and lack effective measures to prevent unauthorized access, leading to inefficiencies and safety risks in pharmaceutical and biotechnical environments.
Innovation Solution
A glove device with a removable seal and integrated shut-off part, featuring RFID chips and safety sensors, that ensures pre-sterilization, reduces installation time, and prevents unauthorized access through controlled access management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional gloves are used in containments, then access to the work chamber is enabled, but extensive pre-use checks and decontamination procedures are required, increasing installation time and complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The glove is pre-sterilized and pre-checked for leaks during manufacturing before being shipped to the containment site. This preliminary action eliminates the need for extensive pre-use checks and decontamination procedures at the installation location, directly reducing installation time and complexity while ensuring the glove is ready for immediate use.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs disposable gloves that are pre-sterilized and single-use. This approach eliminates the need for repeated decontamination and checking procedures, as each glove is designed to be used once and then discarded. This significantly reduces the time and effort required for pre-use preparations while maintaining hygiene standards.
2Ease of operation
If conventional gloves are used, then access is provided, but no effective measures exist to prevent unauthorized intervention, compromising safety
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates RFID chips and sensors that provide feedback about glove usage and access events. The system can detect when a glove is put on, when access is granted, and when the glove is removed. This feedback mechanism enables monitoring and control of access, preventing unauthorized interventions while maintaining ease of operation for authorized users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces simple mechanical glove installation with an integrated electronic control system using RFID chips and sensors. This substitution enables electronic authentication, tracking, and control mechanisms that prevent unauthorized access while maintaining user convenience. The electronic system provides reliable control over access to the work chamber.
3Reliability
If complete glove decontamination is performed, then sterile conditions are achieved, but frequent decontaminations are necessary, increasing time consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses disposable, pre-sterilized gloves that are single-use. This eliminates the need for frequent decontamination procedures, as each glove is designed to maintain sterile conditions throughout its brief service life and then is discarded. This significantly reduces the time required for decontamination while maintaining reliable sterile conditions in the containment environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The glove is pre-sterilized during manufacturing before delivery to the site. This preliminary sterilization action ensures the glove starts in a sterile state and eliminates the need for on-site decontamination procedures. The pre-sterilized glove maintains sterile conditions throughout its use, reducing or eliminating frequent decontamination time requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a glove device, the glove of which is provided for protected intervention in a working chamber of a containment through an access present in a port flange. The port flange is built into a front panel or into a wall of a housing of the containment positioned in an installation area. Machinery for processing goods to be treated can be provided in the working chamber. The glove device is designed as an assembly in the form of an insert which can be inserted into the port flange in a gas-tight manner, said glove device comprising, on one side, a seal which can be removed or is to be opened and, on the other side, a cover part or a shut-off part which is releasable from the assembly, and the vacuum-packed glove between these two sides.