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Arm Door Opener for COVID-19 by CIM UPC

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Based on the original design by Materialise, this opener, 3D-designed at CIM UPC, can be manufactured with any desktop 3D printer and simply assembled with 3 cable ties. With this opener, all shared door handles can be opened without using your hands.

The engineers at CIM UPC began to analyse the different alternatives available on the market to open the doors without using the hands and realized that none were easy enough to assemble, nor did they adapt to the different types of handles and that, in general, they required special elements being difficult to procure. So they got down to work.

The final outcome, after a hard week working with different designs and prototypes, is the Arm Door Opener. It consists of a single piece that can be manufactured in less than 4 hours with any desktop 3D printer and can easily be assembled with only 3 cable ties.
This design has been made in two versions for doors that open to the left and to the right and the assembly is carried out in less than a minute with the help of only 3 cable ties and without the need for any training or technical expertise.

This digital design, materialised by any 3D printer, can be replicated worldwide, which can help minimise the risk of COVID-19 contagion. At the moment, the first large batch will be manufactured at the assembly centre of BCN3D for desktop 3D printers, a spin-off of CIM-UPC, on the UPC campus in Castelldefels (Barcelona). Currently, BCN3D is a leading company in its sector that has made available to the fight against COVID all their 3D printers dedicated to producing its components. There are more than 60 3dprinters.

All the digital information for anyone to reproduce the Arm Door Opener can be downloaded for free from CIM-UPC website, as well as from the main 3D file repositories that are available on the net. If globalization has spread the virus, it will also be able to facilitate its defeat thanks to network innovation and universal access to CAD tools and additive manufacturing. This is a collective success in a situation of confinement, as long as most of the participants in the project are working at home and use their own 3D printer.

With this contribution, CIM-UPC, the UPC technology centre, gives its answer to a need that, due to current health crises, had remained at the second level of priority, but which is equally important. And CIM-UPC the team continues working, without a break, in search of other solutions that could help in the fight against this virus.

Design Files

https://www.youmagine.com/designs/arm-door-opener-covid-19


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