Apparatus for preventing snoring
OwnerBijan Golriz Fardinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for preventing snoring includes a pillow divided internally into separate air chambers, a sound sensor, an air pressure source, an air pressure reducing unit, and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is activated by snoring noises sensed by the sound sensor, is operable to acquire the position of a sleeper's head on the pillow by sensing pressure increase in respective ones of the air chambers of the pillow resulting from the weight of the sleeper's head lying on the pillow, and, in response to such acquiring, is operable to control the operation of the air pressure source and the air pressure reducing unit so as to change the air pressure of selected ones of the air chambers of the pillow and thereby causes a change of the position of the sleeper's head which results in the sleeper stopping snoring.
Claims16
An apparatus for preventing snoring, comprising:
- (a) a pillow divided internally into a plurality of separate air chambers;
- (b) a sound sensor for sensing snoring noises emanating from a sleeper's head resting on said pillow;
- (c) mean for sensing and changing air pressure being connected in flow communication individually with each of said separate air chambers of said pillow;
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- (d) a monitoring unit connected to said sound sensor and to said air pressure sensing and changing means such that said monitoring unit is activatable by snoring noises sensed by said sound sensor to operate so as to acquire the position of a sleeper's head on said pillow by operating said air pressure sensing and changing means so as to sense an increase of pressure in respective ones of said air chambers of said pillow resulting from the weight of the sleeper's head lying on said pillow, said monitoring unit also being operable in response to acquiring the position of the sleeper's head on said pillow to control the operation of said air pressure sensing and changing means so as to change the air pressure in selected ones of said air chambers of said pillow and thereby causes a change of the position of the sleeper's head resulting in the sleeper stopping snoring.
An apparatus for preventing snoring, comprising:
- (a) a pillow divided internally into a plurality of separate air chambers;
- (b) a sound sensor for sensing snoring noises emanating from a sleeper's head resting on said pillow;
- (c) at least one air pressure source connected in flow communication individually with each of said separate air chambers of said pillow;
- (d) an air pressure reducing unit connected in flow communication individually with each of said separate air chambers of said pillow;
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- (e) a monitoring unit connected to said sound sensor, said air pressure source and said air pressure reducing unit such that said monitoring unit is activatable by snoring noises sensed by said sound sensor to operate so as to acquire the position of a sleeper's head on said pillow by operating said air pressure source and air pressure reducing unit so as to sense an increase of pressure in respective ones of said air chambers of said pillow resulting from the weight of the sleeper's head lying on the pillow, said monitoring unit also being operable in response to acquiring the position of the sleeper's head on said pillow to control operation of said air pressure source and air pressure reducing unit so as to change the air pressure of selected ones of said air chambers of said pillow and thereby causes a change of the position of the sleeper's head resulting in the sleeper stopping snoring.
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