Device for the treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea

• US 20050133026A1
• Filed: 12/23/2003
• Published: 06/23/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Katie Seleznev, Stanislav Vitruk
• Original Assignee: Katie Seleznev, Stanislav Vitruk
• Inventors: Vitruk, Stanislav, Seleznev, Katie
• Application Number:
  US10/746,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20050133026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/200.240
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/56 Devices for preventing snoring by influencing the respiratory system by gas treatment A61M16/00

Abstract

The present invention is the universal unmedicamental system to treat the snore and obstructive sleep apnea and recover of the normal breathing during sleep. The invention includes the device, which ensures the fixation of the tongue in a putting forward beyond the mouth position. As a result, the tongue'"'"'s pharyngeal part pushes forward in the mouth, releasing besides the throat and excluding the tongue from a system of obstruction to the air'"'"'s passing through the throat. This increases the throat'"'"'s capacity, depriving the other throat'"'"'s structures of the possibility to provoke the partial or complete obstruction to the air'"'"'s passing through the throat during the physiological process of breathing in the time of the sleep.

Claims

1. The present invention The Device for the Treatment of snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea includes:

the tongue as a main structure participating in the obstruction to the air'"'"'s passing through the throat into the lungs;

the fixation of the tongue with pushed forward its pharyngeal part from the throat in the mouth, and this excludes the tongue'"'"'s participation in the system of obstruction, depriving thereby the throat'"'"'s other structures of the possibility to provoke the partial or complete obstruction to the air'"'"'s passing through the throat into the lungs;

the hole in the tongue'"'"'s oral part intended for its fixation in a position moved forward beyond of the mouth to the device.

3. The present invention, as defined in claim 1, wherein said about the device, includes:

the chin body with two wedge-shaped ledges which are put into the mouth, keep it in a slightly open condition and protect the tongue'"'"'s front part from the bite with teeth;

the recess with the U-shaped configuration for the front part of the tongue;

the lid covering the tongue from above when it is in the U-shaped recess;

the mobile semicircular strip for the close adjustment of the chin body to the lower jaw;

left and right strips adjoining the chin body to the person'"'"'s cheeks;

the strap with two pairs of bridles fastened the device to the head of a sick person.

2. The Device for the Treatment of Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea includes:

the hooked fixation with two ends, one of them inserts into the hole in the tongue, and the other fixes the tongue to the device'"'"'s chin body.