Coronavirus: Prototype ventilators could be mass-produced to ease NHS pressure

[BrightKnight]

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

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It looks like it is just made with something like a Raspberry pi or Arduino and off the shelf components.

It probably doesn’t have a lot of sensors but if it works.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Rump should call whatever existing company has tooling along this line and order them to start

making them TOMORROW...would take time for the tooling but start now.

[BrightKnight]

3. I think Sony said they could easily manufacture a board for it.

Trump is not going to do squat about anything.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Here's another one:

https://coventors.com/

[ornotna]

5. That one is super simple n/t

[Girard442]

4. Before CAD and 3-D printing they designed and built a whole f*cking new airplane in a few months..

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