Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Antisnoring device
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-22
2002-09-10
Brown, Michael A. (Department: 3764)
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Antisnoring device
C128S859000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06446631
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an oral stimulator for pressing various points, a jaw articulation, or the like from inside the mouth for various treatment.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In oriental medicine, there has been known that there are a plurality of points on the face as shown in FIG.
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and the patient can be recovered from various indisposition by stimulating a particular point with a needle or moxa.
For example, by stimulating points C called “Geikou” at the middles between the middle points of the outer peripheries A, A of the nosewings and the nasolabial folds (folds on opposite sides of the nose), B, B, olfaction abnormalities, nasal congestion and the like can be cured. Symptoms of nasitis can be cured by stimulating points D called “Biryu” at the middle points of straight lines joining the nostril, the nasal septum columella and the nosewing or points E called “Sanshou” at the middle points of the nasolabial folds below the “Geikow” points. Further by stimulating points F called “Koryou” at 3 cm outward from the nosewings, symptoms of nasal catarrh, trigeminal neuralgia and facial paralysis can be lightened.
Further, as shown in
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, there are points inside the mouth. In the oriental medicine, there is treatment in which the points in the mouth are pricked with a needle or with a fleam to cause bleeding at the points. For example, when you roll upward the tip of the tongue and nip the tongue between your upper and lower front teeth, you can find two veins on the back side of the tongue. By stimulating a point G called “Kinshin” on the left vein or a point H called “Gyokueki” on the right vein, swelling or pain of the tongue or symptom of aphasia can be lightened.
When you open the mouth wide with your right and left hands applied to your right and left jaw articulations, you can feel parts which move largely. When you suffer from an articular disease at the jaw or symptom of bruxism, the inside of the parts is stiff and there is observed strain of muscles. In such a case, by pressing the jaw articulation rearward upward from behind the root of the upper and lower teeth with a finger, strain of the affected part is lightened, whereby various feelings of physical disorder such as a feeling that the jaws are wobbly, a feeling of oppression and feeling a pain when biting strongly can be lightened.
Since it is impossible to successfully press the “Geikou” point, “Koryou” point and the like from the surface of the face and at the same time it is impossible to press them long from the surface of the face, conventionally stimulation of such a point has to depend on a specialist. Similarly it is impossible to press the jaw articulation with a finger for a long time from the inside of the mouth, stimulation of the jaw articulation conventionally has to depend on a specialist. Further, since the “Kinshin” point and the “Gyokueki” point are sensitive to pain, stimulation of the “Kinshin” point and the “Gyokueki” point with a needle has not been performed in the past.
In view of the foregoing observations and description, the primary object of the present invention is to provide an oral stimulator which makes it feasible to easily stimulate, without depending on a specialist, various points or the jaw articulation without involving a sharp pain so that various remedial values can be expected.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The oral stimulator in accordance with the present invention comprises a mounting portion which is mounted on at least a part of the teeth and a pressing portion which is integrally fixed to the mounting portion so that it can press an affected part to be pressed for treatment from inside the mouth in a state where the mounting portion is mounted on the teeth.
The affected part to be pressed for treatment is a part such as a point, an articulation and the like pressing on which is expected to be effective for treatment.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the mounting portion is shaped to be mounted on at least a part of the upper teeth and the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press upward the “Geikou” point, the “Biryu” point, the “Sanshou” point or the “Koryou” point from inside the upper lip or the cheek. In another embodiment of the present invention, the mounting portion is shaped to be mounted on at least a part of the lower teeth and the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press upward the “Kinshin” point or the “Gyokueki” point from inside the lower jaw. The pressing portion may be shaped to be able to press points other than those described above. In still another embodiment of the present invention, the mounting portion is shaped to be mounted on at least a part of the upper teeth and the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press upward the jaw articulation from inside the mouth.
The mounting portion may be shaped to be mounted on only a front portion of the upper teeth or only a back portion of the lower teeth. In this case, it is preferred that the mounting portion be able to be softened by hot water so that it can be folded to conform to the shape of the teeth.
The mounting portion may be shaped like a mouthpiece. The term “mouthpiece” as used herein means a mouthpiece which is used to protect the teeth and/or the inside of the mouth in contact sports such as football, boxing or the like and is mounted on the whole upper teeth or the whole lower teeth.
Though the mounting portion and the pressing portion can be formed by one-piece molding, they may be separately formed of heat-resistant materials and the pressing portion may be fixed to the mounting portion at its base portion.
The tip of the pressing portion may be shaped like a ball. A permanent magnet or a mineral (e.g., amethyst) may be attached to the tip of the pressing portion.
This invention has found the fact that olfaction abnormalities, nasal catarrh and the like can be cured by pressing points on the face such as “Geikou” and “Koryou” even from inside the mouth, that pressing can be employed to stimulate points such as “Kinshin” which are sensitive to pain, and that the effect of movement massage can be obtained by pressing the affected part with a tool and has invented an oral stimulator for this purpose.
Since the oral stimulator of this invention comprises a pressing portion which can press an affected part and is integrally fixed to a mounting portion, anybody can easily and effectively stimulate from inside the mouth an affected part near the mouth for the purpose of various remedial values by only mounting the oral stimulator of this invention on the teeth. Further the oral stimulator of this invention is preferable also from the viewpoint of beauty since it does not leave no traces of treatment on the face unlike moxa treatment.
When the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press upward the “Geikou” point from inside the upper lip, olfaction abnormalities, symptoms of running nose due to cold or hay fever, nasal congestion and the like can be cured. It is especially effective to hay fever.
When the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press the “Biryu” point or the “Sanshou” point, symptoms of nasitis can be lightened, and when the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press the “Koryou” point, symptoms of nasal catarrh, trigeminal neuralgia and facial paralysis can be lightened. When the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press the “Kinshin” point or the “Gyokueki” point, swelling or pain of the tongue or symptom of aphasia can be lightened without causing sharp pain and without insanitary affect. The pressing portion may be shaped to press other points in the mouth. In this case, different remedial values can be effected according to the points to be pressed.
When the pressing portion is shaped to be able to press the jaw articulation behind the root of the upper and lower teeth, anybody can easily and effectively press the jaw articulation to obtain a finger-pressure cure effect and continue movement massage for a long time as will be described later, whereby strain of the affected part is lightened and va
Bierman, Muserlian and Lucas
Brown Michael A.
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