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. 2021;9(1):130-135.
doi: 10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y. Epub 2021 Jan 6.

Novel combined shield design for eye and face protection from COVID-19

Xiu-Ling Huang  1 , Jin-Rong Yang  1 , Yu-Xiang Sun  1 , Yi-Wen Chen  1 , Xiu-Mei Wang  1 , Shui-Miao Du  2 , Zi-Kai Hua  1
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Novel combined shield design for eye and face protection from COVID-19

Xiu-Ling Huang et al. Adv Manuf. 2021.

Abstract

The World Health Organization emphasized the importance of goggles and face shields for protection of medical personnel at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsurprisingly, almost all countries suffered from a critical supply shortage of goggles and face shields, as well as many other types of personal protective equipment (PPE), for a long period, owing to the lack of key medical material supplies and the inefficiency of existing fabrication methods arising from the need to avoid crowds during the outbreak of COVID-19. In this paper, we propose a novel combined shield design for eye and face protection that can be rapidly fabricated using three-dimensional printing technology. The designed prototype eye-face shield is accessible to the general public, offering more possibilities for yield improvement in PPE during emergent infectious disease events such as COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Face shield; Goggles; Three-dimensional (3D) printing.

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Goggle model (1: lens; 2: slot; 3: elastic band holes; 4: outward flanging; 5: inward flanging; 6: nose cover; 7: ancho)
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Schematic representations of the six types of goggles
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Support settings
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Print preview of some layers
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Exploded view of eye-face shield
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Correspondence between cross holes and anchors
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Eye-face shield a effect picture and b physical picture of 3DP-S-M
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Medical staffs wear our eye-face shields in working environment
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