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Israel/Zionism See other Israel/Zionism Articles Title: A Week After Polish Engineers Announce Cheap Open-Source Ventilator Project, Israelis Steal It For Themselves Last week, Polish engineers announced the VentilAid project to design inexpensive open-source ventilators using 3-D printing technology: Engineers and designers from Poland-based Urbicum have banded together to launch the VentilAid project, an effort to design an open-source ventilator which can be reproduced using a 3D printer and an assembly of basic, easily accessible parts. The open-source ventilator is being designed to help medical professionals in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in cases where more traditional hospital resources are limited or exhausted. We are facing a serious threat due to COVID-19, the VentilAid team writes on its website. Most of the countries are suffering severe shortage of medical equipment, that cannot be produced and delivered in a short time. Ventilators are essential to keep breathing when faced with the complications of COVID-19.
To date, the Urbicum team says it has come up with a working prototype for the ventilator, which is composed of several 3D printed components and a handful of industrial parts, including a pneumatic actuator with 10-20 cm stroke and a pneumatic limit switch or electric limit switch with check valve and 12VDC power supply. The 3D printed components are designed to be printed from PLA or ABS and TPU or Flex materials. Parts can be 3D printed in roughly 15 hours. And then a week later, a team of Israelis announce the exact same project an open-source 3-D-printed ventilator with no mention of the Polish innovation whatsoever, claiming it as an Israeli innovation: As respirators have become essential to deal with the complications of the coronavirus, First Robotics League, Microsoft Israel Research and Development, Ichilov Medical Center, Magen David Adom (MDA) and Unit 108 of the Air Force, have come together to find an innovative solution to avoid future shortages in Israel, and around the world. The Israeli Air Force is leading and managing the project...... Poster Comment: No time to format the quotations -- rush to the source and get with the CHRISTIANS FOR TRUTH program! ;) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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