Wearable Multi-Accessory Tool for Healthcare Workers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable healthcare tools, such as utility belts and medical supply cases, expose accessories to catching on equipment or personnel and fail to accommodate accessories properly due to unsuitable pocket designs, leading to inadequate grip or exposure.
Innovation Solution
A wearable multi-accessory tool with a truncated conical body and tubular elongated shaft configuration that supports health care accessories, including a rotatable tape mechanism and magnetic retention for hemostats and scissors, along with a platform for additional accessories like LED lights and measuring tapes, ensuring secure and accessible storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If accessories are hung about a utility belt for exposure and accessibility, then ease of operation is improved, but the accessories become susceptible to catching on equipment or personnel due to the close-quarters environment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds accessories within the body structure of the wearable tool rather than hanging them externally. The elongated shaft contains an interior open cavity that receives and stores accessories like hemostats and scissors, while the body contains annular spaces that hold tape rolls. This nesting approach keeps accessories accessible yet protected from catching on equipment or personnel in close-quarters healthcare environments.
2Device complexity
If narrow pockets are used in a medical supply case to hold accessories, then device complexity is reduced, but the pockets exert either insufficient grip or too much grip on the accessories
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides customized storage spaces with locally optimized characteristics for different accessory types. The elongated shaft cavity is specifically dimensioned to receive hemostats and scissors with appropriate grip, while the annular spaces are configured to hold tape rolls securely. Each storage region has tailored dimensions and features that provide reliable grip without excessive force, avoiding the one-size-fits-all problem of narrow pockets.
3Ease of operation
If accessories are exposed on the exterior for quick access, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability is reduced due to susceptibility to damage or loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent nests accessories within protected cavities and spaces integrated into the body structure. The elongated shaft contains an interior cavity that shields hemostats and scissors from damage while allowing quick retrieval. The annular spaces within the body protect tape rolls from exposure and potential loss. This nested configuration maintains reliability through protection while preserving ease of operation through strategic placement and accessibility of the stored accessories.
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
The tool provides a secure, unobtrusive, and convenient means for healthcare personnel to access essential accessories, preventing exposure and ensuring efficient use, with rotatable tape and magnetic retention for easy access and secure storage.
Implementation Method 1
an upper end section holding a magnet to releasably retain the at least one of the hemostat and scissor in the elongated shaft
Data Source
AI summary
A wearable healthcare multi-accessory tool includes a truncated conical body adapted to support health care attachment and illumination accessories, and an elongated tubular shaft having an interior open cavity and a lower opening to enable insertion of at least one of a hemostat and scissor into the shaft. The shaft supports the body about the shaft in a displaced relationship above the lower opening of the shaft so as to provide an annular space surrounding the shaft below and recessed relative to the body exterior so as to enable incorporation of a roll of health care tape into the annular space being rotatable about the shaft to enable a strip of the health care tape to be pulled and severed from the roll. The shaft also has at least one protrusion thereon adjacent to the lower opening to support the roll of health care tape about the shaft in the annular space.