Nasal inserts

• US 10,426,651 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2016
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanostec Corp.
• Original Assignee: Sanostec Corp.
• Inventors: MacDonald, Louise S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weisberg, Amy R
• Application Number:
  US15/005,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20160206468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,345 Days
• Field of Search: 128830-833, 12820611, 12823018, 12820322, 12820718, 128843, 623 11- 115, 623 13- 131, 623 122, 623 2369, 623 237, 606199, 606213, 606198, 606191, 606200, 434279, 604 9401
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/08 Devices for correcting deformities of the nose ; Devices for enlarging the nostril, e.g. for breathing improvement
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/00 Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. mouth-to-mouth respiration; Tracheal tubes stimulating the respiratory movement by mechanical, pneumatic or electrical means, iron lungs combined with gas breathing means A61H31/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 29/00 Dilators with or without means for introducing media, e.g. remedies instruments for performing visual medical inspections of cavities or tubes of the body A61B1/00

Abstract

Devices for nasal insertion may include an open-ended tubular element which extends along a central tube axis between a first end and a second end, the first end being larger than the second end, and in which the tubular element includes at least one spiral strut extending from the first end to the second end, and/or a nodule having an internal face, a rounded external face, and a stalk extending from the internal face and terminating in an anchor sufficiently larger than a receptacle in the tubular element and sufficiently deformable as to be pressed through the receptacle to affix the nodule to the tubular element.

Claims

1. A device for nasal insertion comprising:

an open-ended tubular element (a) extending along a central tube axis between a first end and a second end, the first end being larger than the second end, and (b) defining a receptacle formed through a sidewall of the tubular element between the first end and the second end; and

a nodule comprising an internal face, a rounded external face, and a stalk extending from the internal face and terminating in an anchor sufficiently larger than the receptacle and sufficiently deformable as to be pressed through the receptacle to affix the nodule to the tubular element.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of nodules, each nodule having round external face and configured for affixing to the receptacle.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the nodules have varying shapes.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the device defines a plurality of nodule receiving receptacles.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the device defines a plurality of nodule receiving receptacles.