OpenVent B1 ventilator design walkthrough
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 Published On Jul 8, 2020

Timestamps:

0:00 Machine operating

0:12 Introduction
0:40 Do we need a device like this?
1:38 Why not scale up existing manufacturing?
3:06 Start of technical stuff: screen and fake lung
3:57 Gas ports
4:41 Major internal sections
6:09 Valves and gas flow
10:04 Bellows pump closer look
13:32 Electronics board closer look
16:01 Power interuption demo
17:04 All the stuff that's still wrong
22:49 Patient trigger concept demo

For the past few months I've been working on this ventilator design. Took a while longer than expected because the failure of the piston pump forced a redesign of the internal components to accomodate a screw-driven bellows pump.



You can join this project via AirToAll: https://airtoall.org/


AirToAll is also close to deploying their PAPR, a piece of PPE that serves the same function as N95 masks, to protect physicians from contracting the disease during their work.


The work on this ventilator can be found on Github: https://github.com/1M-Ventilators/Ope...


Also check out Polyvent, the winners of the EUvsVirus hackathon held in April 2020: https://www.polyvent.org/

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