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Silicon Infusion Dosing System by Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Idea and Conceptual Design
Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin recognized for idea and conceptual design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Idea and Conceptual Design category for Silicon Infusion Dosing System by Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin, designed for Design Lions. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Silicon Infusion Dosing System
Silicon is a semi automatic infusion dosing system that controls the flow rate and the duration of intravenous medication. A mechanical timer and a flow rate valve are placed above and below the infusion tube, so medical staff can set the required drip rate and time without mental calculation. When the dose is complete, the valve switches to a physiological saline mode and the injection continues, which reduces the risk of errors during busy periods. Silicon needs no electricity and can therefore serve areas with limited medical resources.
About Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin
After experiencing the infectious disease covid-19 that caused heavy casualties around the world, I hope that more designers can contribute to the survival of mankind and reduce more innocent deaths.
Award Record
With this recognition, Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Idea and Conceptual Design Award
The A' Idea Design Award is an international idea design competition recognizing great ideas by designers, creators, innovators and free thinkers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to idea designers, conceptual designers, innovation consultants and creative thinkers from all countries. Typical entries include innovations, prototypes, blueprints, sketches, models and concepts. The awarded idea designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/idea
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/121915
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/121915
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!121915
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/301834
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Silicon Infusion Dosing System
- Function
- Infusion Dosing System
- Category
- Idea and Conceptual Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Design Industry and Innovation
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Steel Blue, Dark Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Design Lions
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #121915
Credits
- Team
- Designer：Sheng-Lun Huang, Designer：Chih-Yen Lin, Professor：Kai-Chu Li, Medical team：Ciao-Yi Chen, Medical team：Ya-Ling Chen and Medical team：He-Yen Lin
- Image Credits
- All Images:Designer Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Silicon is a semi automatic precise infusion solution dosing system, by simple mechanical timer and flow rate valve to improve medical negligence by staff control of flow rate and time of drip medicine, It does not require electricity to replace expensive electronic automatic detection devices, helping resources deprived areas.
- Inspiration
- Through interviews with medical staff, it was found that some medicines need to be injected for about 30 to 60 minutes and the medical staff must mentally calculate the drip flow rate and monitor the drip status back and forth. Not only does it make the medical staff feel stressed, but in the busy peak hours, it is easy for them to forget about patients medical treatment, causing accidents. Each year, the health care industry creates billions of pounds of waste on average, with the prevalence of disposable medical materials causing a rapid depletion of health care resources and a lot of environmental pollution.
- Research
- In fact, we interviewed nurses and trainee nurses who are used every day, and learned about the existing intravenous infusion procedures. Therefore, the design and research of the drug timer structure and the timing flow rate valve structure improve the accuracy of intravenous drug injection and make the work of medical staff more convenient and accurate.
- Challenge
- This is the third generation design. Each generation of design is more in line with the process sequence, ergonomics, and long term cooperation with the medical team for testing. In order to solve the timing problem, we challenged different structures and methods of calculating the flow rate, and needed to confirm that the drug was completely injected without harming the patient, so this is a difficult challenge.
- Realization and Technology
- After completing the dosing, the internal structure of the upper drug timer and the lower timing flow rate valve will drive the aperture flow rate valve to switch to the physiological saline mode, open the physiological saline hole, and continue to inject into the patient body to prevent the medical staff from being busy time negligence caused accidents.
- Operation and Interaction
- I.Close the water inlet hole. II.Put the medicine bottle in place. III.Adjust the flow rate valve aperture. IV.Adjust the flow rate valve timer. V.Adjust the medicament timer. VI.Attach a special identification label. Dosing method: I.Silicone puncture dosing II.Automatic dosing stand dosing:By pressing the button of the dosing stand, the control structure can fix the medicine bottle in place. The dosing stand contains a needle that can automatically puncture the medicine bottle to achieve automatic dosing.
- Project Duration and Location
- Silicon development has made great efforts together with medical staff. In a tight year, we realized that this is a daunting challenge and helped medical staff to reduce their hardship.
- Specifications
- Width 110mm x Depth 57mm x Height 302mm
- Keywords
- Infusion，Dosing，Automatic，Timing，Control
