Anti-snoring device, method for reducing snoring, and a nasal air cannula
AssigneeSeleon GmbH
InventorsHarald Genger, Martin Baecke, Hartmut Schneider
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Abstract
The application relates to an anti-snoring device comprising a compressor and a nasal air cannula, the air compressed by the compressor being blown through the nasal air cannula into the nose of a sleeping person. The invention also relates to an optimized nasal air cannula for the anti-snoring device.
Claims16
A method of reducing snoring during sleeping comprising:
- providing a compressor and a tube connected to said compressor;
- providing a snore-reducing nasal air cannula connected to said tube;
- attaching said snore-reducing nasal air cannula to a sleeping person's nose;
- feeding compressed air from said compressor through said tube to said snore-reducing air cannula and thereby to said sleeping person's nose;
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- wherein said snore-reducing cannula comprises an outlet said outlet having a jacket pipe, wherein said jacket pipe has an end near said sleeping person's nose and said end is configured so that during operation it seals substantially tightly said sleeping person's nose, and wherein a nozzle is configured in the jacket pipe, said nozzle allowing blowing air toward said end of the jacket pipe near said sleeping person's nose and wherein said jacket pipe further comprises an inside wall having a narrowing between said nozzle and said end near said sleeping person's nose and then flaring out from said narrowing toward said end near said sleeping person's nose and thereby forming a diffusor.
An anti-snoring device comprising a compressor and a tube connected to said compressor, wherein said compressor feeds compressed air through said tube to a snore-reducing nasal air cannula and said snore-reducing nasal air cannula in turn applies said compressed air into a sleeping person's nose and wherein said snore-reducing nasal air cannula comprises,
- an outlet said outlet having a jacket pipe, wherein said jacket pipe has an end near said sleeping person's nose and said end is configured so that during operation it seals substantially tightly said sleeping person's nose, and wherein a nozzle is configured in the jacket pipe, said nozzle allowing blowing air toward said end of the jacket pipe near said sleeping person's nose and wherein said jacket pipe further comprises an inside wall having a narrowing between said nozzle and said end near said sleeping person's nose and then flaring out from said narrowing toward said end near said sleeping person's nose and thereby forming a diffusor.
A snore-reducing nasal air cannula comprising,
- an outlet said outlet having a jacket pipe, wherein said jacket pipe has an end near a patients' nose and said end is configured so that during operation it seals substantially tightly the patient's nose, and wherein a nozzle is configured in the jacket pipe, said nozzle allowing blowing air toward said end of the jacket pipe near the patient's nose and, wherein said jacket pipe further comprises an inside wall having a narrowing between said nozzle and said end near the person's nose and then flaring out from said narrowing toward said end near the person's nose and thereby forming a diffusor.
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