Protective mask
AssigneeIntellisafe LLC
InventorsTrevor Chandler, Michael Brown, Joshua Eng-Morris, Joshua K. Goetz
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Abstract
A protective mask includes a transparent impermeable membrane; a frame that substantially surrounds and is coupled to a perimeter of the impermeable membrane and is configured to be positioned about a face of a user; a seal operatively coupled to the frame that seals against a face of the user and extends around a perimeter of the frame, wherein the frame and the seal are substantially impermeable to the passage of air therethrough; an air passageway formed in the frame; and a filter element disposed to filter air passing through the air passageway. The air passageway and the filter element are disposed on a bottom portion of the frame.
Claims18
A protective mask comprising:
- a transparent impermeable membrane;
- a frame that substantially surrounds and is coupled to a perimeter of the impermeable membrane and is configured to be positioned about a face of a user;
- a seal operatively coupled to the frame that seals against a face of the user and extends around a perimeter of the frame, wherein the frame and the seal are substantially impermeable to the passage of air therethrough;
- an air passageway formed in the frame;
- a filter element disposed to filter air passing through the air passageway, wherein the air passageway and the filter element are disposed on a bottom portion of the frame;
- a sanitizing emitter positioned so as to illuminate an exterior perimeter of the filter element and acting to permeate the filter element from the exterior perimeter with a sanitizing agent operative to deactivate the particles of a damaging agent, and
- a containment element that protects the user from exposure to the sanitizing agent.
A protective mask comprising:
- a transparent impermeable membrane including a first portion configured to extend substantially from a forehead of a user to a chin of the user;
- a frame coupled to a perimeter of the impermeable membrane;
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- a seal operatively coupled to the frame that seals against a face of the user and extends around a perimeter of the frame an air passageway formed in the frame;
- a filter element disposed to filter air passing through the air passageway, wherein the air passageway and the filter element are disposed on a bottom portion of the frame;
- one or more sanitizing emitters positioned so as to illuminate an exterior perimeter of the filter element and acting to permeate the filter element from the exterior perimeter with a sanitizing agent operative to deactivate particles of a damaging agent, and
- a containment element that protects the user from exposure to the sanitizing agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.