User:BrejlovecXXL/CoroVent

CoroVent is a mechanical ventilator, which was developed by scientists, doctors, engineers and enthusiasts from the Czech association COVID19CZ during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

The price of the ventilator comes up to approximately 220,000 CZK (7,530 GBP). It did place among 3 winners in category ventilators/respirators in European hackathon EUvsVirus and took a second place in Czech hackathon Hack the Crisis Czech Republic. Interest for the ventilator was shown by, for instance, UN. . Until September 2020, none of the ventilators was ordered by Czech subjects, but orders came from Latin America or Asia.

History
Within a week and a half, the people associated in platform COVID19CZ ensured the development of a simple pulmonary ventilator CoroVent, for the production of which they then raised 14 million CZK in one day using a crowdfunding campaign, from which they could produce the first hundreds of ventilators. The documentation was then released under a temporary open hardware licence, which opened up the possibility of producing the device for multiple entities.

In April 2020, it was announced that Dawell CZ company, which belongs to the MICo group, is starting production of CoroVent in shift operation with 60 employees. The prototype was made in Prosetín. The production of 5 prototypes, which have been subjected to tests and trial runs, was finished on April 7. On April 27, the production of 100-150 pieces per day was launched.