Antigen Self-Test Box Concept

waynelu

China · Digital Intelligence

Currently,
On April 29, 2022,
I am in Shanghai.

Friends who watch the news a little bit know what happened in Shanghai this month, and with epidemic prevention, I came into contact with another new crown detection tool after doing nucleic acid nearly 20 times:
Antigen self-test box.

After using it several times, regardless of the accuracy, this product still has some advantages compared with nucleic acid detection, which is fast, saves manpower and can be done anytime and anywhere. It can indeed be used as a supplement to nucleic acid detection.

After briefly checking the following information, it seems that many such products have been launched at home and abroad, which are roughly divided into two types, one is the common plastic box form, and the other is the paper card form. The two methods have the same principle, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

I simply did some desktop research and spent two days optimizing and reforming the version of the plastic box. The scheme seems to have solved some problems, but some problems have not been solved.

For example, under the current scheme, the sampling tube can only be made by blow molding. The overall use mode may cost more to learn. Whether the combination of cotton swabs and test boxes can be realized in actual production, etc.

This is an exercise. Welcome to make bricks.

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白杨设计🌴 2022-05-27

は？ 2022-05-21

The idea is very good, if there is additional environmental protection and easy to scrap after use, it will be perfect.

好似老千 2022-05-20

Forbidden City F Giant Poster

nanimonai 2022-05-14

How does this implement step 7 of the old process?

MING 2022-05-13

Test paper can solve the problem, why need a shell? In order to sell more expensive?

小小设计师 2023-01-16

Otherwise, how can I make money?

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有搞头 2022-05-11

Great works milestone design

007 2022-05-11

I want to know how to recycle the product after it is used up. Throw it directly into the garbage can?

跃行工业设计JUMPDESIGN 2022-05-11

Look up to the bosses

ceroyz 2022-05-10

Keep up with current events

蛮五 2022-05-09

No, look at the boss's design, simplify the use of steps, is a good design

莱蒙西西 2022-05-09

The display process is really good.

周昊天 2022-05-08

The whole design is very beautiful and needs improvement:
1. The cotton swab is not long enough. Why are cotton swabs on the market now long? There are two functions: one is to collect saliva/nasal fluid samples, the deeper the more accurate, the shallower the less accurate, the higher the virus concentration is often below the throat. If the accuracy is not high, it is losing the meaning of detection. The second is to avoid cross-infection when collecting samples, so you can't go deep into your mouth.
2. The liquid in the sampling tube is highly toxic. The direct insertion of the sampling tube on the detection card may cause liquid leakage or excessive liquid failure.
Both of these will increase the risk of inaccurate detection.

3. Add one. Cotton swabs must be packaged aseptically. If they are designed together with the test kit, the production cost will be increased. The cotton swabs and the test card need to be disinfected together. The problem brought about by this is not only the substantial increase in cost, but also whether there is any damage to the detection card during the disinfection process?

wayneluOwner 2022-05-08

Well, cotton swabs need to be lengthened a little longer, but they don't need to be very long, because this is an antigen test, which is different from the principle of nucleic acid detection. The recommended method for antigen products in the market is to extend 1~1.5cm into the nostril, which is completely different from the nucleic acid poke we made before. Then the problem of the solution, I found that the solution component of the antigen self-test box is salt solution, and if it is highly toxic, the user will definitely not be allowed to operate the whole process by himself. But if the nucleic acid sampling tube you mentioned is really highly toxic, I don't seem to have less contact with this thing recently

Yes, I also mentioned this concern in my introduction, whether production is feasible, and I also mentioned this issue in other replies. The initial goal was to optimize the process without increasing costs, but it failed. Therefore, I changed my direction and did not take Shanghai as the scene of large-scale distribution and cost reduction, but considered the design with a commodity sold in the market. See if you can make something new. Of course, there are many problems in this design, thank you for your advice.

The test solution contains the chemical sodium azide, which can cause damage if it comes into contact with skin, nose, mouth or eyes, or is eaten by mistake.
Sodium azide is a "potentially lethal chemical in the form of an odorless white solid". It is found in car airbags and is used as a chemical preservative in hospitals and laboratories. If exposed to small doses of sodium chloride, potential hazards include dizziness, headache, nausea and vomiting, skin burns and blisters. Exposure to large doses of the substance may cause convulsions, coma and even death.

New crown detection kit (colloidal gold method) is most used in Europe and the United States, change the design, may be the entire production equipment and process to change, the core of this product is the detection accuracy, so ignore the user experience. Generally, cotton swabs are separated from manufacturers and test kit manufacturers. You can look at your samples.

The pain point of this product is: how to upload the data and share it with the epidemic prevention and control center after the family self-test. If the mobile phone scan code can identify the test result (to prevent fraud), then solve some nucleic acid detection problems.

The information I found is that the solution contains glycine and sodium chloride, which are used for acid-base stabilization. I have done it many times (when the cotton swab is thrown into the self-test box when it is taken out of the kit). The current products, especially the card-type self-test, are easy to stick the solution and do not take any leak-proof measures, so I think it is unlikely to be highly toxic.

This scoring scenario, if it is the current large-scale distribution, then the current cost, production difficulty, operability may already be a relatively optimized solution. But if at the user level, the future self-test box may serve as a home disposable medical device (such as a pregnancy test stick) that screens itself for infection with a new crown. Then I think it is worthwhile to change the production process or increase the user experience brought about by some controllable costs.

白瓜子 2022-05-09

The idea is very good. In fact, there are also very well-integrated products in the industry. You can learn about the opinions of professional engineers on this issue. The main components in the solution are salt, detergent, and preservatives. The toxic or not you are mainly the components of the lysate, but the dosage is actually very small. According to the national safety requirements for the third type of medical devices, it really needs to be avoided.

The reason why we use separate products is that on the one hand, it is convenient for high-speed mass production, on the other hand, it reduces production costs. For such products, the cost calculation is calculated to "percent. It is also a last resort. I hope to understand. Come on, Shanghai. Of course, in the future, the integrated products developed and designed by our domestic enterprises are also on the market one after another. I hope to bring you more convenience and better use experience. Please believe that our country will get better and better. The specific form cannot be disclosed due to the trade secrets involved. In the liquid flow control can be slightly informed, the current mainstream technology is to use micro-flow channel technology, can be well controlled micro-upgrade liquid volume.

wayneluOwner 2022-05-09

Looking forward to the finished product of the big boss. After checking what a micro-channel is, my own thinking is still limited. This may be a dimension reduction strike.

何鲁江 2022-05-26

1. Regarding the toxicity of lysate, most manufacturers do not use sodium azide (sodium azide control) and change it to food preservatives or proclin300. This piece does not need to worry too much. 2. Some sampled materials do not need to be sterile, nor do they necessarily need cotton swab materials. 3. Results Only by testing the principle of line C reaction of test paper (mucosal cell debris or protein secondary confirmation)