A fundamental and breakthrough change in mask design

For centuries, masks have fundamentally been the same. We have all be told that a simple surgical mask will always be the same, hot and hard to breathe in. So we dug deeper into the underlying physics of mask design.

A groundbreaking application of

Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics

  • Fluid Dynamics:

    Breathe 300% better with less effort
    Problem: Typical Surgical Mask

    Traditional masks have a limited surface area available for filtering your inhaled/ exhaled breath. This limitation is inherent to the single sheet of filtering material worn tight against the face. With legacy masks, only 3-5 square inches (25 cm2) of material is available for filtering your breath. Hence, it is more difficult to breath. It takes more pressure (effort), with every breath through the limited surface area of the restrictive filtering material.

    Solution: AirFloe Mask

    We significantly increased the surface are to nearly 15 square inches with a dedicated nose chamber. This increased filtering surface area, greatly reduces your effort to breath. More filtration surface area = easier breathing and cleaner air.

  • Thermodynamics (Isobaric heat transfer):

    How we significantly reduced the feeling of being hot
    Problem: Typical Surgical Mask

    Typical surgical masks are tight against the face. Your hot, moist exhaled breath immediately reflects on your skin when you exhale. This hot air also accumulates in the tight pockets between the inside surface of the mask and your skin. You get so hot wearing a mask, particularly with a higher filtration level mask. Some describe it as a drowning or claustrophobic feeling.

    Solution: AirFloe Mask

    Reflected heat is eliminated because AirFloe Mask isolates your nose breath with a dedicated nose chamber. The nose chamber is so capacious and free-flowing, that the backpressure created when filtering through this larger surface area is greatly reduced. Your warm exhaled breath dissipates quickly as it is supplanted by fresh air, in the dedicated nose chamber.

  • Fluid Dynamics:

    How you can breath more energizing fresh air
    Problem: Typical Surgical Mask

    Traditional surgical masks impede your ability to breathe filtered ambient air. The small surface area used for filtering your air limits your intake of filtered ambient air. Residual air trapped inside your mask is contaminated with elevated levels of CO2. You can feel you are not getting enough fresh air. Unsafe levels of CO2 is reached after 3 minutes of wearing a mask.

    Solution: AirFloe Mask

    The large surface area of the nose chamber allows you to draw in fresh ambient air with every inhalation. The nose chamber is quickly replenished with cool dry air, as you breathe in, furnishing your body with more oxygen to invigorate you and minimize fatigue.