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US 11,969,033 B2Granted
Methods and devices to reduce damaging effects of concussive or blast forces on a subject
AssigneeQ30 Sports Science, LLC
InventorsDaniel Francis Wisniewski, Sherry Lynn Jones, James Huang Lua, Kevin John Vititoe, Joseph M. Lehman, Jamison Joseph Float
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Abstract
The disclosure provides systems, devices, and associated methods for mitigating traumatic brain injury, injury to an ocular structure, or injury to the inner ear of a subject by applying pressure to one or more neck veins before and during an injurious event.
Claims13
A system comprising:
- a collar device having a body extending along a length between two distal ends so that the body is partially circumferential, the body having an inner and an outer surface opposite each other and spaced apart by a thickness,
- wherein the collar device is sized to be worn around a human neck with the two distal ends defining an opening of the body therebetween that is positionable at a laryngeal prominence of the human neck when the collar device is worn;
- a pair of channels disposed at opposite ends of the body,
- wherein each channel has a length that extends along a portion of the length of the body
- wherein the length of each channel is longer than a width of each channel, and
- wherein each channel has a depth through only the inner surface of the body and the depth is less than the thickness of the body so that each channel is open only towards a center of the collar;
- a first pair of inward facing pressure pad modules,
- wherein each pressure pad module of the first pair engaged in the respective channel and slidable along the length of the respective channel to position and align each pressure pad module of the first pair to a vein of a user's neck so that a pressure is applied to the vein when the collar device is worn.
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