Updated:June 22, 2020
Like many of the best ideas, Daigo Ishiyama‘s came to him out of the blue. His six-year-old son was playing in the bath, letting water dribble from one plastic toy to another, when inspiration struck.
Within a matter of weeks, SATO’s Chief Engineer and Marketing Officer had devised the SATO Tap, which is simple and inexpensive to make, and will enable millions of people in lower-income parts of the world to wash their hands regularly - a critical first line of defense against the global coronavirus pandemic.
The process was not always straightforward, Ishiyama admits. He had to undergo five major design iterations of the device, fabricating prototypes and doing tests from his garage and basement in his New Jersey home. But the need to devise a solution had become very personal.
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