Device for preventing aspirated substance from going inside the lungs and enabling speaking
AssigneeHoud Alqudah
InventorMOHAMMAD ALQUDAH
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Abstract
A device for preventing aspirated substance from going inside lungs of a patient and enabling speaking. The device comprises an outer tube, an inner tube, an inner tube opening in the inner tube to allow air to travel from the inner tube to the outer tube, an outer tube opening in the outer tube to allow air to escape out of the device, a valve disposed on the outer tube opening, which allows the air to escape out of the device to the trachea of the patient while exhaling, such that the valve closes by gravity and prevents any material to go inside the device from the outer tube opening and a inflatable cuff disposed around the inner end of the outer tube.
Claims10
A device for preventing aspirated substance from going inside a lung of a patient and enabling speaking, comprising:
- an outer tube having an inner end and an outer end, such that the inner and outer ends are inside and outside a trachea of the patient respectively;
- an inner tube having an inner end and an outer end, such that the outer end is outside the trachea of the patient and receives air from outside, and the inner end is inside the trachea of the patient which directs the air inside the trachea, wherein the inner tube is disposed inside the outer tube with a gap;
- an inner tube opening in the inner tube to allow air to travel from the inner tube to the outer tube;
- an outer tube opening in the outer tube to allow air to escape out of the device;
- a valve disposed on the outer tube opening, which allows the air to escape out of the device to the trachea of the patient while exhaling, such that the valve closes by gravity and prevents any material to go inside the device from the outer tube opening;
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- a inflatable cuff disposed around the inner end of the outer tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.