Worldwide Ventilator
Worldwide Ventilator is a collaborative effort to develop low-cost, scalable emergency ventilators to address the global shortage caused by COVID-19. Inspired by historical designs and built with open-source principles, the company aims to provide accessible ventilator solutions for resource-constrained regions and emergency situations, supporting both assisted and automatic breathing modes without complex electronics.
Industries
Worldwide Ventilator
Bellevue, Washington, United States, North America
Products
Emergency mechanical ventilator prototype (fluidic oscillator)
A mechanical assisted-ventilation prototype that uses a fluidic oscillator / bistable amplifier to provide assisted and automatic breathing cycles driven by pressurized air, with mechanical adjustments for pressure and timing.
Emergency mechanical ventilator prototype (fluidic oscillator)
A mechanical assisted-ventilation prototype that uses a fluidic oscillator / bistable amplifier to provide assisted and automatic breathing cycles driven by pressurized air, with mechanical adjustments for pressure and timing.
Services
Open-source design and documentation distribution
Hosting and sharing mechanical designs, prior research references and testing documentation under a Creative Commons non-commercial license for community use and local manufacture.
Manufacturing scale-up and tooling recommendations
Recommendations and throughput modeling for injection-molding tooling configurations, cycle-time estimates and tooling-expedite considerations to support rapid large-volume production.
Test bed development and validation support
Provision of test-bed architectures, sensor integration and test protocols for ventilator performance characterization using artificial lung models and data-logging software.
Open-source design and documentation distribution
Hosting and sharing mechanical designs, prior research references and testing documentation under a Creative Commons non-commercial license for community use and local manufacture.
Manufacturing scale-up and tooling recommendations
Recommendations and throughput modeling for injection-molding tooling configurations, cycle-time estimates and tooling-expedite considerations to support rapid large-volume production.
Test bed development and validation support
Provision of test-bed architectures, sensor integration and test protocols for ventilator performance characterization using artificial lung models and data-logging software.
Expertise Areas
- Emergency ventilator design
- Rapid prototyping and iterative hardware development
- Computational fluid dynamics for pneumatic devices
- High-volume injection molding planning
Key Technologies
- Bistable fluidic amplifier / fluidic oscillator
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- 3D printing (additive manufacturing)
- Injection molding (insert molding, hot-runner tooling)