Wearable Oxygen Delivery for Fatigue Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals face challenges in maintaining concentration and alertness due to increasing workloads, stress, and lack of sleep, as existing devices fail to effectively address fatigue-related oxygen levels and alertness issues.
Innovation Solution
A wearable concentration improvement device equipped with a fatigue event identification apparatus, fluid channel, and head securement means that supplies oxygen-enriched gas to the user's airway upon detecting fatigue, using sensors to identify trigger events such as low oxygen levels, head movements, and atmospheric conditions to enhance alertness and concentration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a wearable device supplies oxygen to improve alertness and concentration, then the user's blood oxygen level is maintained, but the device complexity increases due to multiple components including sensors, gas supply units, and head securement means
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functional components (fatigue event identification apparatus, gas supply unit, fluid channels, and head securement means) into an integrated wearable system. The identification apparatus and gas supply unit are positioned to work together on the user's head, with fluid channels connecting the gas supply to outlets near the airway, creating a unified device that monitors and responds to fatigue events seamlessly.
2Loss of time
If the device uses sensors to detect fatigue events in real-time, then the alertness improvement timing is optimized, but the device complexity increases due to additional sensing and control components
Solution Approach 1:
The fatigue event identification apparatus continuously monitors for trigger events (such as eye closure, head position changes, or other fatigue indicators) before the user experiences significant fatigue. By detecting these preliminary signs and automatically supplying gas in response, the system prevents fatigue-related performance decline before it occurs, rather than reacting after the fact.
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates a feedback loop where the identification apparatus continuously monitors fatigue indicators and automatically adjusts gas supply based on detected trigger events. This closed-loop control system responds dynamically to the user's physiological state, supplying oxygen when fatigue is detected and potentially adjusting or stopping supply when the user returns to an alert state.
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AI summary
A wearable concentration improvement apparatus to identify trigger events has one or more sensor, a fluid channel for supply of gas from a unit to one or more gas outlets, and head securement to a user's head. The head securement positions the one or more outlets proximate the user's airway. The fluid channel provides gas to the one or more outlets according to identification of a trigger event by the apparatus.