Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Antisnoring device
Patent
1993-08-17
1995-01-17
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Antisnoring device
128871, 340573, 2315, A61F 556, A61F 537, A41F 900, G08B 2300
Patent
active
053818016
ABSTRACT:
A plurally pocketed belt is wearable by a sleeping person, and provides for pressure responsive alerting devices to be inserted within one or more of the pockets. The pockets are preferably disposed in the central back, lateral, and/or rearward lateral areas of the belt when the belt is being worn, thus providing a variety of placement choices for the anti-snoring devices which may be installed therein. The devices may comprise an electromechanical vibrator, activated by a pressure switch when the device is positioned between the sleeper and an underlying surface, and/or rigid, monolithic devices having multiple projections which serve to encourage the sleeper to shift positions when disposed between the sleeper and an underlying surface. The relatively non-compliant devices provide better stimulus to encourage the sleeper to shift positions than other, softer devices developed, and provide a variety of stimuli in order that a sleeper cannot become accustomed to a single type of stimulus.
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McShane Jerry M.
Spinks David W.
Hafer Robert A.
Litman Richard C.
O'Neill Michael
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