Syringe Interior Sensing for Supply Chain Event Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to accurately detect events during the supply chain process that can cause structural damage or compromise medical devices like syringes, leading to potential health risks and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating sensing devices within the interior of medical devices, such as syringes, to directly measure parameters like force, pressure, and temperature, ensuring accurate detection of events that may occur during the supply chain process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sensing devices are placed on the exterior surface of the product, then the device complexity is reduced, but the measurement precision deteriorates because parameters applied to the product are inadvertently undetected or inaccurately measured
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing device is positioned within the interior cavity of the syringe container, nested inside the product itself. This allows the sensing device to directly experience and measure parameters (force, pressure, temperature) applied to the syringe during supply chain handling, eliminating the inaccuracies of exterior placement while maintaining a relatively simple device configuration.
2Measurement precision
If sensing devices are positioned along the exterior of the product, then the ease of manufacture is improved, but the measurement precision deteriorates due to inaccurate measurement of parameters applied to the product
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing device is integrated within the interior cavity of the syringe container, allowing direct measurement of parameters applied to the product. This interior placement ensures accurate measurement while the manufacturing process remains feasible through standardized cavity integration techniques.
3Measurement precision
If sensing devices are attached to the exterior surface, then the ease of operation is improved, but the measurement precision deteriorates because the sensing device creates a modified exterior interface that interacts differently with the supply chain process
Solution Approach 1:
By positioning the sensing device within the interior cavity rather than attaching it to the exterior surface, the device eliminates the creation of a modified exterior interface. The sensing device directly experiences the supply chain process conditions (force, pressure, temperature) without altering how the syringe container interacts with handling equipment, thereby maintaining both measurement precision and ease of operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the accuracy of event detection, preventing structural damage and ensuring the integrity of medical devices by providing real-time feedback on potentially harmful conditions.
Implementation Method 1
determining one or more measurable parameters (e.g., a force, a pressure, a temperature, a light intensity, an impedance, etc.) experienced by a product
Implementation Method 2
determining one or more measurable parameters (e.g., a force, a pressure, a temperature, a light intensity, an impedance, etc.) experienced by a product
Implementation Method 3
determining one or more measurable parameters (e.g., a force, a pressure, a temperature, a light intensity, an impedance, etc.) experienced by a product
Data Source
AI summary
A method for identifying an event during a supply chain process that includes preparing a product during the supply chain process, determining an occurrence of the event during preparation of the product during the supply chain process via a sensing device engaged against an interior surface of the product, wherein the event causes the sensing device to disengage the interior surface, thereby indicating a change to the product, and identifying a modification to the supply chain process to inhibit occurrences of the event during subsequent preparations of the product in the supply chain process. The event causing a change of the product.