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UNIVERSITY OF

MARYLAND:COLLEGE PARK
The Flexy Pump
MUNAF M. KACHWALA
ABHISHEK KUMAR
JULIEN AZIMZADEH
Diabetes Mine Challenge 2009
SARAH MANZOOR

Problem
People dealing with Type-I Diabetes or even Type-II Diabetes have the option of using
an insulin pump to provide themselves with the correct amount of insulin throughout
the day. The insulin pump technology has been refined for functionality to deliver a
precise amount of insulin into the patient’s body. However, the aesthetics and ergo-
nomics of the pump have been without improvement. Even with the innovation of
smaller insulin pumps, the pump still feels like an obtrusive piece of machinery not
natural to the body. Patients have to think about the pump when doing simple tasks like
changing clothes or playing sports. These patients have to learn how to live their lives
without a constant reminder in the back of their minds about the pump.
Special points of interest: But what if they did not have to?
• Ergonomically Designed

• Skin tone allows camouflage

• So thin, no one can tell you have


Solution
The Flexi-Pump is the
an insulin pump attached
solution many diabetics
• No need to hassle with insulin have been looking for.
tube
• Similar to all other insulin Features
pumps, just put together better
• The flexible design
• Blood glucose tester and insulin allows the user to wrap the
pump piercings hidden beneath pump around the thighs,
device waist or arms.
• Use adhesive and go swimming • The catheter can run along any length of the flexible straps and be inserted in the
with the pump skin under the strap. Thus, the patient will not have to worry about the catheter line
being caught in clothing or other objects.
• The thin design allows for stealthy placement underneath of clothing. Since the
In the past insulin
thickest part of the strap is only 1.5cm, so the pump will be un-obtrusive.
pumps, were big and
• An active glucose monitoring system can also be included into the strap to give
users and the pump an active reading of the patient’s blood glucose level and actively
bulky. However, “In adjust the insulin level according to the readings.
1983, MiniMed came up • Adhesives can be used on the edges of the strap to make it waterproof if needed
with the first miniature be for certain applications, a convention that is currently far from possible for conven-
insulin pump (as small tional pumps.
as a credit card and as
thick as a dozen and half
Function and Feasibility
credit cards put to-
• The volume in the strap being proposed here is more than enough to contain the
pump, insulin vial, batteries, and the control circuitry. The volume two types of insu-
gether)”. Current tech- lin required by a typical type I diabetic can both fit in the volume of the pouch type
nology can be used to area.
manufacture small and • Lithium ion batteries with rechargeable functionality can be used to power the
precise pumps cheaply. device for extended periods.

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