US 12,102,850 B2
Wireless communication features for respiratory protection device
Darin K. Thompson, Huntersville, NC (US); David Allen Amero, Airdrie (CA); Graham Peter Wilson, Flintshire (GB); Eric J. Bassani, Denver, NC (US); Jeremy V. Barbee, Oxboro, NC (US); Vincent Scott Garmon, Waxhaw, NC (US); Shain Anthony Saucier, Charlotte, NC (US); Todd Ronald Hunter, Calgary (CA); Robert Heise, Calgary (CA); Michael John Zachary Norton, Calgary (CA); and William Kim Ngai Sung, Calgary (CA)
Assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/765,884
Filed by 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/059223
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 1, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/064640, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/910,960, filed on Oct. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0339473 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A62B 18/08 (2006.01); A62B 18/02 (2006.01); H04B 5/72 (2024.01)
CPC A62B 18/08 (2013.01) [A62B 18/02 (2013.01); H04B 5/72 (2024.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A respiratory device, comprising:
a body, at least a portion of the body defining a volume;
a mask communications unit (MCU) at least partially located within the volume;
at least one electrical function component in communication with the MCU; and
a rechargeable power source at least partially located within the volume, the rechargeable power source providing power to each of the at least one electrical function components;
wherein the body defines an interior space configured to receive at least a portion of a face of a user, the at least one electrical function component including:
a display located within the interior space defined by the body, the display having a communications module;
a thermal imaging camera, the thermal imaging camera including a first communications module configured to transmit data over a personal area network using a plurality of communications protocols; and
a second communications module, the communications module being a digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) system.