Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Antisnoring device
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-27
2010-11-23
Bianco, Patricia M (Department: 3772)
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Antisnoring device
C128S859000, C433S006000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07836889
ABSTRACT:
Provided is an airway maintenance apparatus that draws the lower jaw forward to forcibly maintain an airway during sleep, designed to allow quick and easy setting of a drawing extent for the lower-jaw side attachment suitable for each patient. The airway maintenance apparatus contains an upper-jaw side attachment1to be attached to the upper jaw side in the oral cavity, and a lower-jaw side attachment2provided separately from the upper-jaw side attachment1, and to be attached to the lower jaw side in the oral cavity, the lower-jaw side attachment2being connected to the upper-jaw side attachment1via a stepless adjusting device3capable of moving the lower-jaw side attachment2in a stepless manner in the direction of drawing the lower jaw forward relative to the upper-jaw side attachment1.
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Bianco Patricia M
Hawthorne Ophelia
Kurume University
Wenderoth , Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
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