2983 results about "Hygiene" patented technology

A hand applicator of encapsulated liquids, such as cosmetic, hygienic, and pharmaceutical formulations or household chemicals, of different viscosity. When the user squeezes the applicator in her hand, the capsule inside it ruptures, possibly with a clap, and releases a liquid that after being collected by the drain passes through the perforated dissector to get evenly distributed in the absorber and then evenly applied on skin or other surfaces. Inert and impermeable capsules ensure stability of stored liquid formulations. Pressurized capsules are easily tactilely located and crashed. A capsule may be permanently or elastically fixed within the applicator. The applicator may include several capsules that may contain different liquids. A refillable applicator can be refilled with new capsules and used more than once. A transparent impermeable back side the applicator enhances hygiene and creates visibility of the capsule. An impervious glove-applicator for applying hazardous substances is disclosed.

A self-sustaining, portable, power station that may be moved by land, air, or sea to an area that has no utilities. The station is provided with at least one wind turbine and / or solar panel arrays in communication with at least one electrical distribution and storage means. The derived electricity is used to power various systems including, albeit not limited to, a communications system, a water filtration system, a water distribution system to allow the public to draw potable water and provide basic hygiene. The electricity derived may also be used to run outside systems, such as schools, hospitals, or the like.

A system and method of encouraging compliance of hand hygiene in an environment where users move from zone to zone and are required to perform hand hygiene between the zones. Users carry a wearable zone sensor which detects zones, detects hand hygiene actions, logs time of changing zones, and hand hygiene actions. The wearable sensor can be integral with a wearable hand hygiene product dispenser and / or can operate in cooperation with a fixed dispenser configured to transmit hand hygiene actions to the wearable zone sensor. The wearable zone sensors are configured to be useable anonymously or to be associated with a user identifier, and to interface with a central computer via a docking station or communication interface to transfer data for later analysis.

A reputation server is coupled to multiple clients via a network. Each client has a security module that detect malware at the client. The security module computes a hygiene score based on detected malware and provides it to the reputation server. The security module monitors client encounters with entities such as files, programs, and websites. When a client encounters an entity, the security module obtains a reputation score for the entity from the reputation server. The security module evaluates the reputation score and optionally cancels an activity involving the entity. The reputation server computes reputation scores for the entities based on the clients' hygiene scores and operations performed in response to the evaluations. The reputation server prioritizes malware submissions from the client security modules based on the reputation scores.

A system and methods is provided for facilitating, monitoring and recording caregiver and patient compliance with established hospital hand hygiene protocols. The system comprises a 3-D imaging and monitoring assembly and an optional intelligent programmable monitor / sanitizer. Three dimensional imagery tracks a caregiver's movements and location while generating a representative image value. Information acquired by the imaging system determines the proximity of a caregiver to the patient and / or contamination source and determines if the sanitizers provided have been utilized and if so, at an appropriate time and distance from the patient per hospital protocol. While being monitored, a representative Avatar based on physical characteristics derived from three dimensional images of the caregiver and patient may be generated so as to maintain anonymity of both unless a violation of institutional protocol occurs which may be forensically recorded in real-time for analysis.

A desirably sanitary environment such as a hospital will have hand hygiene stations dispersed in some of the patient rooms, hallways, common areas, staff bathrooms and the like. Workers entering and exiting these rooms and areas should comply with proper hand hygiene protocols as they move from contact with one patient to another. A system, method and implementation are provided for increasing the likelihood of proper hand hygiene protocols. Identifying credentials unique to each worker, sensors tracking the room entry and exit activities of each credential, electronic hand hygiene substance dispensers responsive to the credentials and a computerized network are combined to count completed hand hygiene protocol cycles to the credit of each credential for use in a compliance awards program to encourage proper hand hygiene. Each credential may include green, yellow and red LED's to alert as to “hands clean,” please sanitize” and “hands dirty” conditions.

A method and apparatus that systematically prompts staff, patients and visitors at care facilities to perform handwashing at critical time periods, for example after touching a toilet flush handle or upon entering or leaving a patient's room. A plurality of detectors are used to sense whether a person has entered an area and to determine whether the person has cleansed their hands within a predetermined period of time before entering the area or leaving the area. If it is determined that the person has cleansed their hands within the predetermined period of time, no prompting message is generated. If it is determined that the person has not cleansed their hands within the predetermined period of time, an audio / visual warning message is generated.

A networked system and method for improving hygiene practices includes an interactive communication system of user devices and an information engine. Wired and wireless data transmission methods are provided.

A system and method of encouraging compliance of hand hygiene in an environment where users move from zone to zone and are required to perform hand hygiene between the zones. Users carry a wearable zone sensor which detects zones, detects hand hygiene actions, logs time of changing zones, and hand hygiene actions. The wearable sensor can be integral with a wearable hand hygiene product dispenser and / or can operate in cooperation with a fixed dispenser configured to transmit hand hygiene actions to the wearable zone sensor. The wearable zone sensors are configured to be useable anonymously or to be associated with a user identifier, and to interface with a central computer via a docking station or communication interface to transfer data for later analysis.

A reputation server is coupled to multiple clients via a network. Each client has a security module that detects malware at the client. The security module computes a hygiene score based on detected malware. The security module provides the hygiene score and an identifier of a visited web site to a reputation server. The security module also provides identifiers of files encountered at specified web sites to the reputation server. The reputation server computes secondary hygiene scores for web sites based on the hygiene scores of the clients that visit the web sites. The reputation server further computes reputation scores for files based on the secondary hygiene scores of sites that host the files. The reputation server provides the reputation scores to the clients. A reputation score represents an assessment of whether the associated file is malicious.

An inner sole structure includes an insole integrally woven to form a plurality of resilient areas with supporting hoops and buffer areas without the supporting hoops thereof defining the upper surface thereon wherein the resilient and the buffer areas thereof can be made in any shapes like rectangles, triangles, or tilted stripes and be alternatively interrelated in regular or irregular arrangement thereof. The supporting hoops thereof are stood upright with vents defined therein and dividing passages formed at the adjacent sides thereof, and a coupling facet is disposed at the bottom side of the insole thereon to be integrally combined with a loading pad via thermal pressure operation to generate heat welding thereby. Thus, the resilient areas with the supporting hoops of a proper hardness can flexibly sustain the sole of a human foot stepped downwards thereon, stimulating blood circulation and providing a better massage effect. Besides, via the buffer areas alternatively arranged with the resilient areas thereof, the sole of the foot is partially suspended above the insole thereof, providing more proper and ventilating airy space there-between without the foot stuck stuffily and completely onto the insole thereof so as to keep the hygiene of the foot thereof.

A method and apparatus are provided by which eyelid diseases may be treated and eyelid hygiene may be performed. In particular, the method and apparatus stimulate eyelid muscles and facial muscles, allowing stimulation of glandular eyelid components that allow optimization of the tear film and the ocular surface. In this manner, the symptoms associated with ocular irritation or with eyelid disorders may be treated by maintaining proper tear film composition.

A self-sustaining, portable, power station that may be moved by land, air, or sea to an area that has no utilities. The station is provided with solar panel arrays in communication with at least one electrical distribution and storage means. The derived electricity is used to power various systems including, albeit not limited to, a communications system, a water filtration system, a water distribution system to allow the public to draw potable water and provide basic hygiene. The electricity derived may also be used to run outside systems, such as schools, hospitals, or the like. The solar panel arrays are mounted on roller assemblies that can be easily slide between a stowed and deployed condition. The solar arrays include a plurality of solar panels that are supported by one or more hydraulic actuators to counter balance the weight of the solar panel whereby the solar panel can be easily positioned into the desired tilted orientation.

A system and method of encouraging compliance of hand hygiene in an environment where users move from zone to zone and are required to perform hand hygiene between the zones. Users carry a wearable zone sensor which detects zones, detects hand hygiene actions, logs time of changing zones, and hand hygiene actions. The wearable sensor can be integral with a wearable hand hygiene product dispenser and / or can operate in cooperation with a fixed dispenser configured to transmit hand hygiene actions to the wearable zone sensor. The wearable zone sensors are configured to be useable anonymously or to be associated with a user identifier, and to interface with a central computer via a docking station or communication interface to transfer data for later analysis.

A system and method for increasing customer safety by directly involving customers and reminding and rewarding workers of hand decontamination compliance issues within a facility to include a plurality of positive-reinforcement hand-hygiene stations; stations that provide a conveniently-located choice of hand-hygiene products such as soap or lotion; personnel identification tags for workers in the facility; readers at the hand-hygiene stations capable of detecting the presence of worker identification tags; a controller for detecting whether a worker tag accessed a hand decontamination station; devices to visually and audibly prompt and / or educate a worker or customer in the use of the hand wash station; a device to give a visual and audible reward for using a station; a device to issue rewards; and a plurality of computers to manage the system.

A system which allows healthcare providers to monitor hand hygiene compliance includes a data reader adapted to be worn by a healthcare provider. The system includes a portal trigger disposed at each door portal of a patient room which activates the reader to record an entrance event when the provider enters the patient room. The system includes a dispenser trigger disposed at each cleaning dispenser having cleanser in or at the entrance of each patient room which activates the reader to record a dispensing event when the provider causes the dispenser to dispense cleanser, the reader having a display which displays a number of dispensing events and a number of entrance events. A method which allows healthcare providers to monitor hand hygiene compliance. A system which allows a person to monitor hand hygiene compliance. A method for allowing a person to monitor hand hygiene compliance.

The invention related to a device for surveillance of the use of a hygiene station (1) or a similar establishment for washing of hands by one or more users, which device comprises a first sensor device (4) arranged in connection with said hygiene station (1), for detection of presence and identification of users who are in its vicinity, and also a control unit (6) to which said first sensor device (4) is connected. The invention is characterized in that the control unit (6) is connected to a second sensor device (7) for detection of the use of a drying device (2) arranged for drying after the use of said hygiene station (1), where the control unit (6) is arranged for gathering and storage of information concerning said detection of presence, identification and use of the drying device (2) based on signals from said first sensor device (4) and said second sensor device (7), respectively. The invention also relates to a procedure for such surveillance, and also a drying device intended to be used at such surveillance. The invention offers an enhanced arrangement and procedure for surveillance of the extent to which a number of users uses a hygiene station, for example a washstand (1), for washing of hands.

This invention relates to a system and method of monitoring hygiene standards compliance in a medical facility in which there is provided a surveillance network having a monitoring unit 3 and a plurality of mobile network units 7. There may additionally be provided a plurality of fixed network units 5. The monitoring unit 3, mobile network units 7 and fixed network units 5 are connected by way of a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN), in this case a ZigBee network. Identification signals are sent from the mobiles network units 7 to the monitoring unit 3 and the monitoring unit stores the identification signals in memory and generates a hygiene standards compliance profile for an individual associated with a particular mobile network unit. The hygiene compliance profile may provide information relating to the number of times that a particular individual washed their hands to information regarding the patients that that individual came into contact with over the course of a shift. Reports on the behaviour of individuals or groups of individuals may be generated.

The invention seeks to improve the taking of physical measurements on an industrial product represented by organoleptic perceptions, the method providing a measurement interface that submits descriptors in a relative arrangement such that testers are not influenced by the order in which they appear, regardless of the descriptor and regardless of the field of the descriptor. For this purpose, the invention provides a method of analyzing industrial products in order to characterize them, in order to distinguish between them, and / or in order to modify them so as to improve them, by analyzing the responses of a panel of testers in application of certain descriptors. The method comprises steps consisting in selecting descriptors that are a priori pertinent for determining the organoleptic characteristics of the products; selecting a response mode; providing all of the descriptors simultaneously to the panel of testers on a single occasion and for a determined duration in a measurement interface presenting a center and an input zone for each descriptor, the input zones being distributed uniformly over at least a section of at least one conic about the center of the interface; collecting the responses from each tester as a function of the selected response mode; recording the responses; and analyzing the responses using at least one statistical method.

There is provided a system for monitoring hygiene compliance in a medical facility. The system includes personnel tags for patients and for healthcare workers within the facility; sensors, to be carried by healthcare workers, which recognize personnel tags for patients within a distance of 1 meter; washing stations provided with tags which are recognized by said sensors within a distance of 0.5 meter; and a control unit, to be carried by the healthcare workers, said control unit being programmed to detect whether a healthcare worker bearing one of the personnel tags accessed a washing station prior to contacting a patient bearing a separate one of the personnel tags.

A method for assessing improvement in hand hygiene practices using sanitation solution dispensers deployed within particular areas of interest in a healthcare facility or the like. Each of the dispensers has a counter associated therewith, with the counter producing a count indicative of actual events of a healthcare worker sanitizing his / her hands. Other data is acquired that impacts the number of anticipated hand sanitation events in this particular area of interest. From this data, a number of anticipated hand sanitation events is determined. Finally, a determination is made, from information obtained through actual observation, of the number of opportunities that healthcare workers will have for hand sanitation in the area of interest over a particular period of time. A performance index, indicative of compliance with hand hygiene protocol, is then obtained by dividing the difference between the actual number of hand sanitizing events and the number of anticipated hand hygiene events by the number of opportunities for such hand hygiene events. This index may then be used to gauge improvement or regression in hand hygiene practices in an area of interest, or to measure the effectiveness of intervention programs, or to compare performance between various areas of interest.

An instructional hygiene method includes providing an instructional hygiene device, the instructional hygiene device configured to provide an instruction to a user during operation, and delivering said instruction from said instructional hygiene device to said user in response to activation of a user input of said instructional hygiene device. The instructional hygiene device can include a toothbrush or a dentifrice dispenser. The delivering an instruction step can include instructing the user regarding a tooth-brushing technique, instructing the user to move a toothbrush head in a circular motion, instructing the user to brush a tongue, and / or providing music to the user. In addition, the step of delivering the instruction can include retrieving the instruction from a memory of the instructional hygiene device.

The present invention generally relates to systems and methods to promote proper handwashing. Specifically, it relates to systems and methods that provide feedback to the person who is washing his hands. It further relates to systems and methods for monitoring hand hygiene compliance. In a system aspect of the present invention, a system for promoting adherence to handwashing guidelines is provided. The system includes: a sensor for detecting a handwashing event; a controller that receives signals from the sensor and activates a timer; a timer for sending an observable signal to a handwasher; and, a power source that provides power to components of the system.

System for drying a tissue or hygiene web. The system includes a permeable structured fabric carrying the web over a drying apparatus. A permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is guided over the drying apparatus. A mechanism is utilized for applying pressure to the permeable structured fabric, the web, and the permeable dewatering fabric at the drying apparatus. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

The present invention is directed to novel compositions and methods effective for maintaining eyelid hygiene, e.g., therapeutic treatment and prophylaxis. The present invention provides methods and compositions that are compliance-enhancing and useful for daily prophylaxis, which involve the easy and safe application of a foam directly to the eyelid in controlled doses effective for maintenance of eyelid hygiene.

This invention relates to an electronic cigarette and an electronic cigarette device, the electronic cigarette includes a sucking cylinder, a sucking nozzle configured at an end of the sucking cylinder; wherein the sucking cylinder and / or the sucking nozzle are processed with wooden material; wherein the wooden material is natural timber. The electronic cigarette device includes the above-mentioned electronic cigarette, and further includes an electronic cigarette casing, for accommodating and charging the electronic cigarette; the electronic cigarette casing includes a bottom box and a box cover, the bottom box and / or the box cover are made of the wooden material. The electronic cigarette and the electronic cigarette casing are of health, hygiene, environmental protection and good taste and good feel.

A convertible fluid dispenser for dispensing personal care hygiene products has a chassis adapted to accept either a manual actuating unit or an automatic actuating unit, for upgrading or maintenance.

The present invention relates to an aqueous decontaminating composition comprising(A) an amount of H2O2 less than or equal to 60% by weight, based on the total weight of said composition;(B) an RCO3H / RCO2H mixture, where R is methyl or ethyl, as indicated above, said mixture being present in an amount such that the weight ratio of said mixture to the hydrogen peroxide is between 0.15 / 1 and 0.85 / 1;(C) a silver component as a source of Ag ions, selected from the group consisting of silver salts and complexes, said silver component being present in an amount such that the weight ratio of said silver component to the hydrogen peroxide is between 0.0005 / 1 and 0.015 / 1;(D) a stabilizer present in an amount such that the weight ratio of said stabilizer to the hydrogen peroxide is between 0.0005 / 1 and 0.025 / 1; andwater to make up to 100% by weight. It further relates to the method of preparation and to the use of said composition.