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Posture-monitoring headband device

  • US 5,158,089 A
  • Filed: 07/05/1991
  • Issued: 10/27/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/05/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A posture-monitoring headband device comprising:

  • a headband, adjustable in circumference, adapted to be worn by a human subject;

    a strap, attached to said headband at a front location and at a rear location, traversing overtop the subject'"'"'s head in an arcuate path located substantially in a saggital body plane;

    a housing, having on a bottom side thereof strap attachment means captively engaging said strap in a manner disposing said housing substantially above said strap with freedom to be adjustably positioned along said arcuate path over a range including an operational position in which a predetermined normal disposition of subject'"'"'s head results in a substantially level horizontal position of the housing;

    level-sensing means, disposed within said housing, adapted to sense predetermined deviations from said level horizontal position in the subject'"'"'s saggital plane; and

    indicating means adapted to indicate said deviations kinesthetically to the subject.

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