Coronavirus: Prototype ventilators could be mass-produced to ease NHS pressure
Source: Sky News
Doctors and engineers have unveiled a prototype ventilator that's simple enough to mass-produce in a fortnight, soon enough for the expected surge in coronavirus patients.
The team from Oxford University and King's College London took less than a week to take the device from the drawing board to working prototype, so that it can soon help in the fight against COVID-19.
Two hospitals say they're already ready to test them on patients
The Oxvent is made using a standard resuscitation bag and valves widely used in the NHS, eliminating the need for 3D printing of complex parts.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-prototype-ventilators-could-be-mass-produced-to-ease-nhs-pressure-11963109
It looks like it is just made with something like a Raspberry pi or Arduino and off the shelf components.
It probably doesnt have a lot of sensors but if it works.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)making them TOMORROW...would take time for the tooling but start now.
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)Trump is not going to do squat about anything.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)ornotna
(10,763 posts)Girard442
(6,059 posts)From Wikipedia:
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a design team headed by James Kindelberger[6] of North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing Commission approached North American Aviation to build Curtiss P-40 fighters under license for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Rather than build an old design from another company, North American Aviation proposed the design and production of a more modern fighter. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102 days after the contract was signed, and first flew on 26 October.[7][8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang