Apnea prevention gear
OwnerYasuo Kawamurainventor
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Abstract
There is provided a gear for preventing a user from lapsing into an apneic state by maintaining the body of said user in an inclined posture during said user's sleep. The gear includes a clothing body worn by said user and a pad. The clothing body includes a back body and a front body. The pad is attached to the back body of the clothing body and extends in the longitudinal direction. The pad includes a plurality of segments arranged along the longitudinal direction, capacities of the segments are different from each other, and each segment is expanded in accordance with the capacity thereof by a fluid to be supplied to each segment.
Claims12
A gear for preventing a user from lapsing into an apneic state by maintaining the body of said user to an inclined posture during said user's sleep, said gear comprising:
- a clothing body worn by said user, said clothing body including a back body and a front body;
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- a pad which is attached to said back body of said clothing body and extends in the longitudinal direction, wherein said pad includes a plurality of segments arranged along the longitudinal direction, wherein capacities of said segments is different from each other, and wherein each of said segments is inflated in accordance with its capacity by a fluid supplied to each of said segments, wherein a bag-shaped accommodation portion is formed in said back body of said clothing body, and wherein said pad is removably accommodated in said accommodation portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.