UV-C Sterilization Booth for Mobile Infectious Disease Clinic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile infectious disease clinics require significant time and resources for disinfection and often necessitate healthcare providers to change protective suits frequently, leading to inefficiencies and increased exposure risks during testing.
Innovation Solution
A booth-type mobile infectious disease clinic with UV-C lamps for sterilization and adaptive light intensity adjustment, along with automated disinfection and negative pressure control, allows for isolated testing and efficient disinfection processes, minimizing exposure and resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual disinfection is performed after each testing, then the clinic can be disinfected, but the time taken for disinfection is long (10 to 30 minutes) and healthcare providers must change protective suits frequently
Solution Approach 1:
The UV-C lamp automatically performs disinfection of the clinic interior after each testing session without requiring manual intervention. The system self-activates based on testing completion status, eliminating the need for healthcare providers to manually disinfect or change protective suits, thereby reducing disinfection time while maintaining effectiveness
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical disinfection processes with an automated UV-C lighting system. The UV-C lamp provides contactless disinfection by irradiating the clinic interior, substituting the mechanical action of manual cleaning and suit changes with an automated optical disinfection process
2Reliability
If the negative pressure device operates at high output continuously, then the negative pressure can be maintained above a predetermined value to prevent disease spread, but energy consumption increases and the device cannot adapt to different testing scenarios
Solution Approach 1:
The negative pressure device operates dynamically by adjusting its output based on real-time testing status. The controller increases negative pressure output when a testing is completed or abnormality is detected, and reduces output during normal operation, allowing the system to maintain reliability while adapting energy consumption to actual needs
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the testing status and abnormality detection to automatically adjust negative pressure device output. When testing is completed or abnormality occurs, the controller receives feedback and increases negative pressure; otherwise, it maintains lower output, creating a closed-loop control system that balances reliability with energy efficiency
3Reliability
If the UV-C lamp operates at high light radiation intensity continuously, then sterilization effectiveness is maximized, but energy consumption increases and the lamp cannot adapt to different disinfection needs
Solution Approach 1:
The UV-C lamp operates dynamically by adjusting its light radiation intensity based on testing status. The controller increases UV-C output when testing is completed or abnormality is detected to maximize sterilization effectiveness, and reduces output during normal operation, allowing the system to adapt energy consumption to actual disinfection needs while maintaining reliability when required
4Productivity
If a large number of mobile infectious disease clinics are assembled to maximize testing capacity, then more tests can be performed, but the time and resources required for disinfection of each clinic increase
Solution Approach 1:
Each mobile clinic in the cluster performs automatic self-disinfection using UV-C lamps after testing sessions. This eliminates the need for manual disinfection of each clinic, allowing multiple clinics to operate simultaneously without proportionally increasing total disinfection time, thereby maintaining high testing capacity while reducing the time burden
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
This configuration enables efficient disinfection, reduces the time and cost associated with suit changes, and maximizes testing capacity while minimizing infectious disease spread, even in fully occupied medical settings.
Implementation Method 1
a UV-C lamp which is configured to radiate light of a wavelength in a range of 100 nm to 280 nm toward the inside of the first compartment in order to perform sterilization in the first compartment
Implementation Method 2
a negative pressure device which is configured to adjust an air pressure in the first compartment to be lower than an air pressure outside the mobile infectious disease clinic to cause the air outside the mobile infectious disease clinic to enter the first compartment and configured to filter the air inside the first compartment and then discharge the filtered air to the outside of the mobile infectious disease clinic
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a booth-type mobile infectious disease clinic, and more particularly, to a mobile infectious disease clinic, which is a booth-type mobile infectious disease clinic which makes it possible to assemble and disassemble a large number of mobile infectious disease clinics, that allows a test subject to be tested by a healthcare provider using an infectious disease test kit while exposure of the body parts is minimized and the healthcare provider and the test subject are isolated in the booth-type mobile infectious disease clinic, that performs sterilization of an infectious disease using an ultraviolet C (UV-C) lamp to reduce the time taken for disinfecting the clinic, and that allows the light radiation intensity of the UV-C lamp to be adaptively adjusted according to the body temperature of the test subject.