Incentive spirometry devices by the employment of verbal simulated humanlike voices and using a tilt sensing component for ensuring patient actual use of the improved incentive spirometry devices

An Incentive Spirometer assembly, comprising:

• an Incentive Spirometer device having a tube portion and a float, said float residing within said tube portion and movable therein;
• means for detecting movement of said float within said tube portion;
• means for preventing said means for detecting from counting movement of said float as a patient use of the Incentive Spirometer when said Incentive Spirometer is not in a proper position;
• a speaker;
• and
• means for sending one or more verbal warnings to a user through the speaker when said means for preventing detects that the Incentive Spirometer has been moved to an improper position.

An Incentive Spirometer assembly, comprising:

• an Incentive Spirometer device having a tube portion and a float, said float residing within said tube portion and movable therein;
• electronic means for detecting movement of said float within said tube portion;
• and
• a tilt switch in communication with said electronic means, wherein said tilt switch prevents said electronic means for detecting from counting movement of said float as a patient use of the Incentive Spirometer when said Incentive Spirometer is not in an at least substantially upright position;
• wherein said tilt switch comprising:
• a housing defining an internal area and having a lower end;
• a metal ball or conductive fluid disposed within the internal area of said housing and movable within;
• a first conductive member chosen from a group consisting of at least one of the following:
• wires, pins, terminals, contacts and electrodes and having one end disposed at the lower end of said housing and in communication with the internal area and an opposite second end in contact with said electronic means for detecting;
• and
• a second conductive member chosen from a group consisting of at least one of the following:
• wires, pins, terminals, contacts and electrodes and having one end disposed at the lower end of said housing and in communication with the internal area and an opposite second end in contact with said electronic means for detecting;
• wherein when said Incentive Spirometer is in an upright position said conductive element is disposed at the lower end of said housing and in contact with said first conductive member and said second conductive member and when said Incentive Spirometer is not in an upright proper position said conductive element is not disposed at the lower end of said housing and is not in contact with said first conductive member and said second conductive member.