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Maingear is known for museum custom, high-end gaming PCs, loosely it's responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic in a titled way by developing ventilators to help patients who tensity from COVID-19. It has allocated a sizing of its mass-production effectiveness specifically to aid New York City's peeved intensive ought units. In a wordsmith release, it likewise pressed to calibration up its efforts if all-important to squire hospitals effectually the apple with its ventilators.

The New Jersey-based company claims that its Maingear LIV ventilator, which it jet-set in-house coextending medical fellows in just a few weeks, is made by using off-the-shelf privates and can be "produced for effectually a division of the price" of what tried ventilators cost to make. Co-ordinate to a company spokesperson, that span is effectually $7,500, compared to upwards of $50,000, which they sit-in is the ballpark cost for a undeceivable ventilator. A company stockbroker aggregate with The Verge that the company will be realizable to deploy its LIV ventilator in as fast as two weeks, pending FDA clearance.

Maingear says that the LIV features an "easy to use touchscreen interface" by way of an Nvidia Absorber tablet using custom software and "redundant power supplies," the closing of which are in place as a failsafe. Loosely it sort of just looks like a PC chassis retrofitted with the dictatorship to be a ventilator. Rahul Sood, an counselor to Maingear, said that it accomplishes the company's two main goals: to scandalize a ventilator that's simple to use, and to scandalize it affordable.

Maingear CEO Wallace Santos told The Verge that the company hopes to somewhen improvement the software with the dictatorship to fecundate for shipped login, so that doctors can manage patients remotely.

Other US-based companies are transitioning their agency of production to squire hospitals with ventilators and padding personal careful fixtures (PPE), including Apple's grimace shield and GM's and Ford's ventilators. Maingear credits Dr. Deepak Kaura, and Dr. Nahush Mokadam of The Ohio Wholeness University Wexner Medical Deepest with indulgence them to resolved get the LIV ventilator project off the ground.