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Galleries // 2020 Spark:Health // VOX Ventilator

VOX Ventilator

Finalist

Competition: Spark:Health
Designer: Daniel Zarem - Senior Industrial Designer
Design Type: Concepts & Prototypes
Company / Organization / School: fuseproject
Website: fuseproject.com
Team Members: Daniel Zarem, Dan Semo, Jaehoon Jung, Judy Leung, Jayati Sinhai, Jon Reyr Johannesson, Michael Schnepf, M.C. Abbott, Qin Li, Thomas Moeller, Naomi Kwon, Gael Jaffrezic, Harriet Tzou, Eric Oesterle, Jeremiah Robison, Tyler Smith, Eric Spaulding, Brad Laird & Jonathan Schreven

fuseproject, in partnership with CIONIC, a medical device and technology start-up, and several independent mechanical engineering (ME) consultants, banded together to respond to the open innovation challenge and help close the gap between those in need and available healthcare resources around the world. The two-round challenge aimed to present initial concepts and finalize CAD assemblies as part of the first phase, followed by a shortlist of finalist teams delivering functional prototypes in the final phase. The challenge convened panels of medical and technical experts to guide requirements and review design processes, evaluating each submission for safety, reliability, manufacturability, cost implication, and software/electronic complexity. More than 200 teams from 43 different countries submitted their concepts, and fuseproject/CIONIC/independent MEs was selected as one of seven to build working prototypes for the final round of judging. Our final design, dubbed VOX, is a rapidly deployable, pneumatically driven ventilator that prioritizes modularity, uses off-the-shelf solutions, and is optimized for a Covid-19 healthcare context. VOX costs less than $1,000 to produce and can be assembled in under 4 hours.