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US 12,440,632 B2Granted
Respiratory pressure therapy system
AssigneeResMed Pty Ltd
InventorsBarton John Kenyon, Emily Claire Shrubb, Liam Holley
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AssigneeResMed Pty Ltd
InventorsBarton John Kenyon, Emily Claire Shrubb, Liam Holley
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The present technology is directed to a respiratory pressure therapy system, that includes a plenum chamber pressurisable to a therapeutic pressure above ambient air pressure, a seal-forming structure to form a seal with an entrance to the patient's airways to maintain said therapeutic pressure in the plenum chamber throughout the patient's respiratory cycle in use, a positioning and stabilising structure constructed and arranged to provide an elastic force to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on the patient's head, a blower configured to generate the flow of air and pressurise the plenum chamber to the therapeutic pressure, the blower having a motor, the blower being connected to the plenum chamber such that the blower is suspended from the patient's head and the axis of rotation of the motor is perpendicular to the patient's sagittal plane, and a power supply configured to provide electrical power to the blower.
A portable and head-wearable respiratory pressure therapy (RPT) system in which all of a blower, a battery to supply power to the blower, a controller to operate the blower, and a patient interface having a silicone cushion are mounted with a headgear and supported entirely by a patient's head in use, wherein the blower is mounted forwardly of the silicone cushion of the patient interface such that in use a motor of the blower is suspended forwardly of the patient's head and an axis of rotation of the motor of the blower is generally perpendicular to the patient's sagittal plane, and wherein the blower is a head-wearable blower that includes:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.