Sleep apnea avoidance process and apparatus

• US 6,671,907 B1
• Filed: 04/15/2003
• Issued: 01/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lifestyle Products, LLC, Sheriff Robert E. Hansell
• Original Assignee: Najeeb Zuberi
• Inventors: Zuberi, Najeeb
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US10/412,873
• Time in Patent Office: 266 Days
• Field of Search: 563/6, 564/6, 563/8, 563/9, 564/4, 563/2, 128/845, D 6/601
• US Class Current: 5/636
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 9/1063 comprising limb accommodation

Abstract

A sleep apnea avoidance process includes selecting a pillow having a pair of sides, angled at a predetermined angle and shaped to hold a person'"'"'s head face down on one side thereof. The selected pillow has a pair of arm openings thereunder to position a person'"'"'s arm to assist in holding a person'"'"'s head face down on the pillow angle side such that the user can use one or the other arms when placing the head on one or the other angled side of the pillow. The process includes resting on one of the pillow'"'"'s angled sides with one arm placed through the arm opening whereby jaw movement and sleep apnea are avoided.

Claims

1. A sleep apnea avoidance process comprising the steps of:

selecting a pillow having two angled sides angled at a predetermined angle diverging downwardly from raised apexlike area, and shaped to hold a person'"'"'s head face down thereon, said pillow having two generally parallel arm openings thereunder for a person'"'"'s arm positioned to assist in holding the person'"'"'s head face down on a pillow angled side; and

resting on said pillow angled pillow face down with an arm positioned in an arm opening whereby jaw movement and sleep apnea are avoided.

2. The sleep apnea avoidance process in accordance with claim 1, wherein one arm openings is adapted to hold an arm when a person is laying on one angled side of said pillow and the other arm openings is adapted to hold an arm when a person is laying on the other angled side.

3. A sleep apnea avoidance pillow comprising:

a pillow having at least two angled sides angled at a predetermined angle diverging downwardly from a raised apexlike area, and shaped to hold a person'"'"'s head face down thereon, said pillow having two generally parallel arm accommodating openings thereunder for a person'"'"'s arm, one said arm opening being positioned to hold a person'"'"'s arm when the person is laying on one angled side of said pillow and the other positioned to hold a person'"'"'s arm when a person is laying on the other angled side of said pillow whereby jaw movement and sleep apnea are avoided in a person resting on said pillow.