IT202000007933A1 - Automatic mechanical and / or pneumatic and / or electro-mechanical and / or electronic and / or IT system and related support procedure for putting on sterile or non-sterile gloves and then for removing used gloves. - Google Patents

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accompanying a patent application for industrial invention, entitled:

Automatic system and relative procedure for putting on sterile or non-sterile gloves and then for removing used gloves.

The present invention relates to an automatic system of the mechanical or pneumatic or electromechanical or electronic or computer type and related support process for wearing sterile or non-sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves.

The use of latex gloves or other disposable materials? grown a lot in the last fifty years.

Globalization, interactions between different interlocutors, the growth of international trade, the ease? with which ? possible to move to other countries, led to the abolition of national restrictions.

This need has led to an increase in the use of systems designed to contain and reduce possible infections among individuals in general and even more so for a whole series of professionals who for different reasons, health, logistic, commercial, etc., use for their work disposable gloves.

These disposable gloves are used in the most demanding environments. other than operating theaters to fruit shops or airport or railway gates. These gloves are able to provide the necessary protection from possible infections or pollution.

How ? known, in the current state of the art, the main problem that arises in the use of disposable gloves? that there are two critical moments in the use of gloves, the moment they put them on and the moment they take them off.

The evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the new coronavirus that broke out in China last December 2019 and is threatening global health, does not stop. The international situation of infections ascertained from 31 December 2019 to 12 April 2020 is 1,827,284 and the victims have reached 113,031 people.

In Italy, the updated numbers as of April 12, 2020 are 156,363 confirmed at Covid-19 of which 102,256 are currently positive; 19,899 deaths; 34,211? the number of total healed.

9% of all Italian infected? composed of doctors and nurses. The Higher Institute of Health says so. To be precise, in Italy, since the beginning of the epidemic, 5,211 health professionals have contracted a coronavirus infection. So far April 12, 2020, there are 20 dead in this category.

Do doctors and nurses have a quantity? insufficient masks, goggles and gloves and, working with the sick, they too fall ill. Also c '? an inadequate use of the protections.

If you do not pay close attention to putting on and removing gloves, the risk of contamination can? become high with very serious consequences for both the operator and others.

To date, the technique used to preserve the necessary sterility? some gloves ? essentially procedural, that is, studies and tutorials have been carried out to teach all the different operators how to put on and then remove gloves without contaminating them. It is easy to understand that these techniques present serious application problems for several reasons:

- difficulty? in the application ... you need to make complicated movements with fingers and wrists,

- a lot of wasted time ...? it takes over a minute to both put on and take off the gloves,

- uncertainty of the result ... if the operation is done badly, you can't? know or control,

- conscience of the operator ... who says if the operator has performed the necessary movements correctly.

The present invention, therefore, has as its main objective that of proposing an automatic system and relative support procedure for wearing sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, in such a way as to solve all the currently open and unresolved problems.

An additional goal? that this system can be used by more? people, different professions, different types of gloves and in various situations.

This system is used in many application areas: in the health and hospital sectors, in research laboratories, in logistics in general, in commerce, in tourism, in the transport sector, in police assistance services, in public services in various capacities.

Therefore, the specific object of the present invention is an automatic system and relative support process for wearing sterile or non-sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system characterized in that it comprises:

- at least one electro-mechanical device equipped with one or more? glove boxes of various materials and different sizes.

- at least one device capable of allowing a person to wear a pair of gloves automatically simply by inserting their hands into the appropriate slots and removing their hands from the slots while wearing gloves.

- at least one device capable of allowing a person to remove the gloves already? worn and used automatically by simply inserting your hands in special slots and removing your hands from the slots not having more? I'm wearing gloves.

- at least one application made with any system, be it mechanical or pneumatic or electromechanical or electronic or computer, which allows the device to automatically put the gloves on a person.

- at least one application made with any system, be it mechanical or pneumatic or electromechanical or electronic or IT that allows the device to automatically remove the gloves worn by a person and place them in a special container for special waste destined for disposal.

- at least a computer application created with any system and equipped with one or more? network interfaces and firmware, specially developed and loaded into the device for the IoT, which allows the device to make data accessible remotely and become manageable without further intervention. The IoT device cos? realized potr? being able to interact with other devices and "make decisions" on the basis of pre-established instructions. Among the IoT functions provided by way of example and not exhaustive will be the reading of RFID tags or similar to uniquely identify each single glove, the detection and transmission of the wear of the gloves, the tracking of movements.

The present invention will be now described for illustrative but not limitative purposes, with particular reference to the figures of the attached drawings in which:

Table 1? an architecture view of a system that exemplifies the operating phases of the automatic system as a whole, and with particular regard to the procedure of wearing new gloves.

Table 3 represents the same operational phase of wearing gloves and reports in addition? graphics that better illustrate the procedure.

Tab 1-101 and Tab 3-101? the machine / device equipped with one or more? glove boxes of various materials and different sizes which allows the user to choose his glove size.

Tab 1-102 and Tab 3-102 the user identifies himself on the machine and after choosing the size he waits for the gloves to be prepared to be worn and for the sterilization and tightness control procedure to be performed on the chosen gloves.

Tav 1-104 and Tav 3-104 if everything is ok, that is, the gloves are intact, the user can? insert your hands in the appropriate slots for the automatic wearing of the gloves, however, in case of manufacturing defects of the gloves, the system will provide? automatically to discard the flawed gloves and reload and the new gloves to repeat sterilization and tightness control.

Tab 1-106 and Tab 3-106 if everything is ok, the machine records the unique rfid codes of the gloves and matches them to the user, date, time, place to transfer this information to a central or local database.

Tab 1-107 and Tab 3-107 procedure finished, the user can? extract the hands from the cracks and avr? I wear his new certified, defect-free and sterile gloves.

Table 2? an architectural view of a system that exemplifies the operating phases of the automatic system as a whole, and with particular regard to the procedure for removing used gloves from the hands.

Table 4 represents the same operative phase of removing the used gloves from the hands and shows in more? graphics that better illustrate the procedure.

Tab 2-101 and Tab 4-101? the machine / device equipped with one or more? glove boxes of various materials and different sizes.

Tab 2-108 and Tab 4-108 the user identifies himself on the machine and waits for the preparation of the slots where he can insert his hands to remove the used gloves he is wearing.

Tab 2-103 and Tab 4-103 the user can? insert your hands into the appropriate slots to remove the gloves.

Tab 2-105 and Tab 4-105 the user waits for the machine to remove the gloves he is wearing.

Tav 2-109 and Tav 4-109 gloves removed, the user can? take your hands out of the cracks, you no longer have? I'm wearing gloves.

Tab 2-110 and Tab 4-110 after the user has removed his hands from the slots, the system checks whether the gloves used are still intact or have cuts or small tears and at the same time sterilizes the used gloves before place them in a special container for special waste.

Tab 2-106 and Tab 4-106 if everything is ok, the machine records the unique rfid codes of the gloves by combining user, date, time, place to transfer this information to a central or local database for closing the procedure.

Tav 2-111 and Tav 4-111 if the integrity check? detects problems, in case of anomalies or other, the system will provide? automatically to activate a coded alarm procedure according to the needs.

Tab 2-112 and Tab 4-112 completed, the system disposes of the used and sterilized gloves again in a special container for special waste.

All the examples described therefore demonstrate that the present invention achieves all the proposed purposes. In particular, it allows to realize an automatic system and relative procedure for putting on sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves.

The present invention? has been described for illustrative, but not limitative purposes, according to some preferred embodiments, but? it is to be understood that any changes and / or modifications may be made by experts in the sector without thereby going out of the relative scope of protection, so? as defined by the appended claims.

Claims (8)

CLAIMS 1. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computerized system (100) and relative support procedure for putting on sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - at least one electro-mechanical device (101) equipped with one or more? glove boxes of various materials and different sizes. - at least one device (102) capable of allowing a person to put on a pair of gloves automatically simply by inserting the hands in suitable slots and removing the hands from the slots while wearing gloves. - at least one device (103) capable of allowing a person to remove the gloves already? worn and used automatically by simply inserting your hands in special slots and removing your hands from the slots, not having more? I'm wearing gloves. - at least one application (104) made with any system, be it mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computer, which allows the system (100) to automatically put the gloves on a person. - at least one application (105) made with any system, be it mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computer, which allows the system (100) to automatically remove the gloves worn by a person. - at least one computer application (106) created with any system and equipped with one or more? network interfaces and firmware, specially developed and loaded into the IoT device, which allows the system (100) to make data accessible remotely and become manageable without further intervention. The IoT device cos? realized can? being able to interact with other devices and "make decisions" on the basis of pre-established instructions. Among the IoT functions provided by way of example and not exhaustive will be the reading of RFID tags or similar to uniquely identify each single glove, the detection and transmission of the wear of the gloves, the tracking of movements. 2. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computerized system (100) and relative support procedure for putting on sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - the aforementioned device? able to sterilize according to the specific requests using one or more? chemical and / or physical sterilization systems, such as germicidal or sterilizing UV lamps, saturated steam, hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid solution, etc. - sterilization can? be used both before putting on gloves for optimal preparation for use and after using the gloves to sterilize and / or disinfect used contaminated gloves before throwing them into special waste containers for disposal. 3. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computerized system (100) and relative support procedure for putting on sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - the aforementioned device can? use different gloves for material, shape, size, use to which they are intended, for single use or not. - the gloves used by the device will be contained in special multiple containers and in any case in unique capsules for each glove able to preserve the integrity in the best possible way. gloves and allow the device to pick them up one by one and then put them in the hands of the operator without further manual contact. 4. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computer system (100) and relative support procedure for putting on sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - the aforementioned system (100) in its operational phases provides for an operational phase of control and verification of the integrity? gloves, any gloves that may be faulty due to a production defect will be automatically discarded by the system. - the integrity check phase? gloves is used both before putting on the gloves for optimal preparation for use and after using the gloves themselves to give the user certainty that the gloves used will not be damaged by use with possible consequences of contamination for the user. or for the people or substances with which the user? met. 5. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computer system (100) and relative support procedure for wearing sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - the aforesaid system (100) represents an automatic self-service system that can? be used without the need? of manual skills? additional. - User interaction with the automatic device can? take place in different possible ways? depending on the usage scenario; in particular, the user can? control the device with voice control, with audio and / or light signals, with special pedals and / or special buttons, other systems that do not require the use of hands. 6. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computer system (100) and relative support procedure for putting on sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - the system (100)? capable of managing an automatic SOS service that intervenes when a possible risk of contamination is detected, this SOS will be? able to interact both with other local alarm control units and with public assistance. 7. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computer system (100) and related support procedure for wearing sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - said system (100)? equipped with a video or a camera and a display that allows who will use? the device to interact with the device itself, but also to record the event history of who and when used the self-service system to put on and take off the gloves and the relative positive and / or negative results of use. - this system provides, where necessary, the registration of an RFID tag for each glove in order to match each glove to its user in order to supervise the correct use and replacement of the gloves by the user and also to be able to perform a tracking space and time of gloves and their use in unauthorized environments. - said system provides, where necessary, the possibility? to interact with rfid tags positioned for example on the wrist of patients to know, where a loss of sterility was found? of gloves, with which and how many patients the operator who used those compromised gloves? been in contact and take the necessary recovery measures. 8. Automatic mechanical or pneumatic or electro-mechanical or electronic or computer system (100) and relative support procedure for putting on sterile gloves and subsequently for removing used gloves, said system? characterized by the fact of understanding: - said system (100)? equipped with a hardware-software control that can? interface with other advanced smart systems such as protective masks, gowns, shoes in order to identify and report any anomalies in use, access to restricted areas and / or other that require adequate and necessary dressing before accessing the area itself. Such a system will be able? interact in an IoT scenario with advanced access control systems and regulate access to areas and public services.