Air Diviser
Based on consideration of existing problems reported regarding air supply by existing add-on air respirator, this 'air diviser' is designed to be a portable air-breathing apparatus that allows oxygen of approximately 10L to be separately contained from fire fighter's, which is intended to be consumed by rescuee. This can be taken as an improved version of existing air respirator model, which is capable of providing people as many as possible with sufficient amount of air so as to help fire fighting and rescuing survivors more rapidly.
2013
Jung Hyun Min, Cheol Woong Seo, Dong Jun Lee / Team work
The poisonous gas is responsible for the 80% of decreased people during fire accident. As a preventative
measure, existing air respirator model usually employs add-on air respirator to provide both fire firefighters and rescuees with enough oxyzen during rescue operation. In reality, however, it demands much more time to provide oxyzen per every person if there are many waiting for being rescued, which may make it difficult or field control to undertake rescue operation and fire fighting.
The existing air respirator model has only one add-on air respirator, which guarantee fire fighters have no choice but to operate first aid on a lot of survivors in very inefficient way.
Considering that it should be possible for fire fighters to carry it at any time, it is designed to have small capsule
appearance so as to allow them to add it to oxygen tank. This apparatus can be separated into two air espirators,
and recharged with oxygen supplied by oxygen tank. When the recharging container begins to be filled with
oxygen, the recharging container is exposed outside so that user can use it as an independent portable air respirator. Furthermore, it is also capable of filtering out absorbed external air just as gas mask does, which makes it possible to adjust amount of air inflow.
