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Advanced posture-monitoring device

  • US 5,425,378 A
  • Filed: 07/11/1994
  • Issued: 06/20/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A posture-monitoring device comprising:

  • a headpiece, worn on a user'"'"'s head;

    weighting means of predetermined weight attached to said headpiece and located substantially in an upper central region thereof for providing the user with a sensation of biological feedback;

    proportional tilt-detecting means attached to said headpiece and enabled for acquiring and registering data selected and entered by a person regarding limit values of tilt and for quantitatively measuring angles of frontward and backward tilting of said headpiece in the user'"'"'s saggital plane relative to a designated reference orientation of the headpiece, thereby detecting instances of such tilting which exceed the limit values of tilt; and

    a sonic indicator, operationally connected to said tilt-detecting means, enabled to provide the user with sonic indication of the detected instances of excessive tilting.

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