Multipurpose device for preventing and treating snoring and sleep apnea and /or preventing gnashing of teeth

• US 20020144685A1
• Filed: 03/22/2002
• Published: 10/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bredov Vladimir Ivanovich, Ryazanov Evgeniy Alekseevich
• Original Assignee: Bredov Vladimir Ivanovich, Ryazanov Evgeniy Alekseevich
• Inventors: Ivanovich, Bredov Vladimir, Alekseevich, Ryazanov Evgeniy
• Application Number:
  US10/102,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20020144685A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/848
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/566 Intra-oral devices

Abstract

The invention pertains to the medical devices and may be used as the method for prophylaxis and treating snoring and sleep apnea, and also for preventing gnashing of teeth during a sleep. The device contains joined through the connecting element the cup-shaped fixture and outer and inner restrictive petals with the holes. The petals are set up on the connecting element with an opportunity of moving along it and fixing on it.

The cup-shaped fixture has the section in the form of the arc in the surface of the longitudinal axis section of the connecting element in the area of its adjoining to the fixture, symmetrical to the planes of the petals of the fixture, and the section in the form of the parabola in the surface of the axis section, perpendicular to the identified.

Claims

1. The device for preventing and treating the snoring and sleep apnea and/or gnashing of teeth, containing joined through the connecting element the cup-shaped fixture and the inner restrictive petal with the through holes, set up on the connecting element with the opportunity of moving along it and fixing on it, characterized by that the curves made by the two mutually perpendicular section planes of the cup-shaped fixture, paralleled to the axis of the connecting element or passing through it and presenting the planes of the symmetry of the cup-shaped fixture, have different curvature.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, characterized by that one of the curves has the form of the parabola, and the other—

the form of the arc.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2, characterized by that the longitudinal axis of the connecting element in the area of its adjoining to the fixture coincides with the axis of the parabola.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized by that the connecting element has the step bend.

5. The device as claimed in any of the claims 2-4, characterized by that the longitudinal axis of the connecting element being set off relatively to the parabola.

6. The device as claimed in any of the claims 2-5, characterized by that the angle between the tangents to the outer parabolic surfaces of the cup-shaped fixture, outgoing from the point, situated on the axis of the parabola at the distance 4-7 mm from the outer surface of the cup-shaped fixture, makes 30-90°

.

7. The device as claimed in any of the claims 2-6, characterized by that the connecting element is performed in the form of the strip of the rectangular cross section.

8. The device as claimed in any of the claims 2-6, characterized by that the connecting element has an oval or circular cross section.

9. The device as claimed in any of the claims 1-8, characterized by that it is provided with the outer restrictive petal, set up on the connecting element with an opportunity of moving along it and fixing on it.

10. The device as claimed in the claim 9, characterized by that the outer restrictive petal is performed with the through holes.

11. The device as claimed in any of the claims 1-9, characterized by that the dimensions and quantity of the holes in the identified petals are chosen depending on providing for the laminarity of the airflow, breathed in or out by the statistically average patient.

12. The device as claimed in any of the claims 9-11, characterized by that the square of the surface of the outer restrictive petal exceeds the square of the surface of the inner one.

13. The device as claimed in any of the claims 10-12, characterized by that the square of each of the holes in the outer restrictive petal exceeds the square of each of the holes in the inner restrictive petal.

14. The device as claimed in any of the claims 1-13, characterized by that the cup-shaped fixture and/or the inner restrictive petal, and/or the outer restrictive petal, and/or the connective element are made of elastic material.