System and method for forming nose clip for improved face mask fit
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsCaroline M. Ylitalo, Marie D. Manner, Claire R. Donoghue, Phillip A. Kennedy
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Abstract
A custom nose portion former for a respiratory protection device is presented. The former comprises a first portion comprising a nose contour. The nose contour matches a facial skin surface topography of a user of the respiratory protection device. The former comprises a second portion. When the first portion and the second portion, when engaged around a deformable nose portion within the respiratory protection device, form it to match first nose contour such that the face mask is custom fit to the user.
Claims11
A method of custom fitting a respiratory protection device to a face of a user, the method comprising:
- scanning the face of the user using an optical sensor;
- mapping a skin surface topography of the user based on a scanning dataset;
- forming a nose portion former, based on the mapped skin surface topography, wherein the nose portion former comprises an edge that has a matching contour to the mapped skin surface topography;
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- providing instructions to the user for forming a custom-fit nose portion of the respiratory protection device, wherein the instructions include the user aligning a deformable nose clip of the respiratory protection device with the nose portion former and pressing the matching contour into the nose clip.
A system for form-fitting a respiratory protection device to a wearer, the system comprising:
- a scanning system comprising an optical scanner that scans a facial topography of a user of the respiratory protection device;
- a nose portion crimper builder that receives a scan dataset of the facial topography and forms a nose portion crimper with a matching contour;
- wherein, when the nose portion crimper is applied to a deformable nose clip of the respiratory protection device, it imparts the facial topography such that the respiratory protection device is custom fit to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.