PARI与Vapore公司合作开发神奇的呼吸道疾病护理新技术

新技术利用热能和毛细管作用，迅速将液体转化为气体；这项技术有望引起呼吸道与湿化治疗的进展。

大约只有一片阿司匹林片剂的大小，这项技术开始研发用于野营便携炉子，因为它能够迅速将液体燃油转变成气体，通过高效喷气作用释放出来。产生的气体更容易利用，因为这是真正的气体，意味着在处理过程中没有液体小滴的生成，因此在气体形成之前不需要挥发作用。同时这项技术不需要利用移动部件，因此没有复杂的拆卸组件。

这项技术叫做毛细管动力喷雾器，是由Vapore集团公司(Richmond, CA, USA)开发的。蒸发器是由陶瓷盘制成的。当在陶瓷盘底部添加液体的时候，毛细管动力通过陶瓷盘来提升液体，和将水输送到树顶部的途径相似。然后在陶瓷盘顶部使用热能，将液体“相变”转化为气体通过开口释放出来。

Vapore公司与原始设备制造商(OEMs)合作，研制开发第一代使用这种技术的产品。PARI创新制造商(Midlothian, VA, USA)已经获得执照在全球范围内将该项技术用于呼吸道护理。在测试中，PARI和Vapore的工程师制造了一种增湿器，能够在2～3秒钟内产生气体，体积只有D号电池大小。测试发现效率极高，达到使用能源的93％。PARI尝试将这种技术最终用于医院的通风设备、婴儿保温箱以及其它用途之中。

PARI总裁兼首席执行官Werner Gutmann说：“我们十分高兴能够成为Vapore集团的合作伙伴，将这项新技术推广到医疗系统，并期望与制药公司、设备制造商合作，以进一步提高呼吸与湿化治疗的水平。”
 
New Technology for Respiratory Care
 
New technology utilizes heat and capillary action to rapidly turn liquid into vapor and is expected to lead to improvements in respiratory and humidification treatments.

About the size of an aspirin tablet, the technology was initially developed for camping stoves due to its ability to turn liquid fuel into vapor and release it with a high-velocity jet action. The resulting vapor is more readily usable because it is a true vapor, meaning that liquid droplets are not created during the process and therefore do not need to evaporate before a vapor is formed. Also, the technology does not utilize moving parts, so there are no complicated, breakable components.

The technology, called capillary force vaporizer, was created by Vapore, Inc. (Richmond, CA, USA). The vaporizer is made of ceramic discs. When liquid is supplied at the bottom of the discs, capillary forces lift the liquid through the discs, similar to the way water is brought to the top of a tree. Heat is then applied to the top of the discs and phase transition turns the liquid into a vapor that is released through an opening.

Vapore is working with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on developing first-generation products utilizing the technology. PARI Innovative Manufacturers (Midlothian, VA, USA) has licensed the technology for use in respiratory care worldwide. In testing, PARI and Vapore engineers were able to create a humidifier that generated vapor in two or three seconds and was the size of a D battery. The test was extremely efficient with a 93% energy-use rating. PARI sees the eventual use of this technology for hospital ventilators, infant incubators, and other applications.

“We are pleased to partner with Vapore, Inc. to bring this new technology to the medical community and look forward to partnering with pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to further improve breathing and humidification treatments,” said Werner Gutmann, president and CEO of PARI.