Bird Mark 7 Respirator
Challenge
Quickly meet the growing demand for ventilators by creating an open-source CAD design and manufacturing plans for the Bird Mark 7—a reliable, non-electrical, oxygen-tank-powered ventilator from the 1960s endorsed by experts from UC Davis, Livermore Instruments, and the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska—that manufacturers can use to reproduce the ventilators.
Solution
- phoenix v|tome|x c450 industrial CT scanner with scatter correction applied by Waygate Technologies (a Baker Hughes company)
- Geomagic® Design X™ reverse engineering software by 3D Systems
Outcome
Captured high-quality industrial CT scans of the Bird Mark 7 ventilator main control body and provided a history-based, editable Autodesk Inventor file within 24 hours.
Learn More
Wall Street Journal Article
Download Entire Ventilator Assembly (14.5MB)