Patent classifications
A61M16/0683
INFECTIOUS AEROSOL CAPTURE MASK WITH SUCTION TUBE ADAPTER FOR ACTIVE AND PASSIVE USE
An infectious aerosol capture mask (IACM) includes a face tent coupled to a suction tube adapter. The face tent includes a proximal opening configured to be disposed over the mouth and nose of a patient. The face tent further includes a distal opening with a smaller diameter than the proximal opening. A coupler is configured to secure the suction tube adapter to the distal opening of the face tent. The suction tube adapter includes a suction port configured to be coupled to a suction tube for active capture of infectious aerosol and left unconnected for passive capture of infectious aerosol. A viral filter is disposed between the suction port and the face tent to capture infectious aerosols expelled by the patient. The IACM further includes one or more one-way valves that are configured to permit airflow into the face tent.
Respiratory mask
The present invention provides a respiratory mask comprising a nose cushion assembly. The nose cushion assembly comprises a base body and a buffering piece. The base body has a base intake portion, a base connection portion, and an air routing piece disposed at the inside of the base body and having a partitioning wall and a wall connection piece. The inside of the partitioning wall encloses an air intake zone. The wall connection piece is disposed outside the partitioning wall and connects with the base intake portion. Between the partitioning wall and the base intake portion there is defined an air outtake zone. The air intake zone is approximately at the center of the base intake portion. The buffering piece connects with the base connection portion and encloses a nose containing room, which in turn connects with the inside of the base body.
HEADGEAR WITH COVERED EDGE
A headgear assembly includes a strap of a first flexible material with an elongate edge, and a second flexible material folded around and running along the elongate edge. The second flexible material may be an elastic material. The second flexible material may also cover an intersection or joint in the first flexible material such that the first flexible material may be made from two flexible materials layered together or joined end to end.
SELECTABLE AROMATHERAPY AUGMENTATION OF OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM
Disclosed are an apparatus, system, a kit and a method for delivering supplemental oxygen together with an aromatherapy active. The system comprises one or more oxygen containers for delivering of supplemental oxygen comprising between 35 and 40 percent oxygen—to a user. The system comprise one or more selectable aromatherapy pods, which may be incorporated into the supplemental oxygen delivery system to increase user satisfaction and promote the frequent use of the supplemental oxygen therapy to improve athletic performance.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR HEADGEAR STRAP MANAGEMENT
A headgear for securing a patient interface to a patient's head includes a rear member and a pair of lower strap members. Each lower strap member is sized and configured to be positioned on a respective side of the head of the patient when the headgear arrangement is disposed on the head of the patient. Each lower strap member includes a free end that is selectively directly coupleable to the patient interface. The arrangement also includes a pair of strap management arrangements, with each arrangement positioned on a respective side of the headgear and structured to locate/hold the free end of a lower strap member of the pair of lower strap members in a predetermined location on the respective side of the head of the patient when the headgear is positioned on the head of the patient and the free end is not directly coupled to the patient interface.
Custom patient interface and methods for making same
A method of manufacturing a patient interface for sealed delivery of a flow of air at a continuously positive pressure with respect to ambient air pressure to an entrance to the patient's airways includes collecting anthropometric data of a patient's face. Anticipated considerations are identified from the collected anthropometric data during use of the patient interface. The collected anthropometric data is processed to provide a transformed data set based on the anticipated considerations, the transformed data set corresponding to at least one customised patient interface component. At least one patient interface component is modeled based on the transformed data set.
Method of generating a configuration for a customized headgear
A method of generating a customized headgear that includes a plurality of physical features and being usable with a mask component that supplies a flow of breathing gas to the patient's airways. The method includes receiving one or more parameters pertaining to the patient's head, subjecting at least some of the parameters to one or more algorithms to determine at least one of a length of a physical feature of the plurality of physical features and an angle between a pair of physical features of the plurality of physical features, generating an outline of at least a portion of a body which, when formed, is usable to assemble therefrom at least a portion of the headgear, and outputting a pattern usable to enable the formation of the at least portion of the body from at least a first sheet of at least a first material.
DUAL CHAMBER PATIENT INTERFACE WITH AIRFLOW REGULATION
A patient interface may include a dual chamber cushion assembly having a nasal chamber and an oral chamber. The nasal chamber may be arranged to deliver pressurized breathable gas to a patients nasal passages, and the oral chamber may be arranged to deliver pressurized breathable gas to the patients oral passages. The nasal chamber may be pressurized to a different level than an oral chamber to promote nasal breathing. An air passage may fluidly connect the nasal chamber and the oral chamber so that pressurized breathable gas may flow from the nasal chamber to the oral chamber.
ADJUSTABLE HEADGEAR TUBING FOR A PATIENT INTERFACE
Aspects of the present technology comprise a positioning and stabilising structure to hold a seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on a head of a patient. The seal-forming structure may be constructed and arranged to form a seal with a region of the patients face surrounding an entrance to the patients airways for sealed delivery of a flow of air at a therapeutic pressure of at least 4 cmH2O with respect to ambient air pressure throughout the patients respiratory cycle in use. The positioning and stabilising structure may comprise a front hoop arranged to contact, in use, at least a region of the patients head superior to an otobasion superior of the patients head and a rear strap. The positioning and stabilising structure may comprise an adjustment mechanism for adjustment of the front hoop and the rear strap relative to the patients head, the adjustment mechanism being arranged in a single operation to adjust both the front hoop and rear strap to enable the positioning and stabilising structure to fit different size heads.
Nasal seal and respiratory interface
A nasal mask having a seal housing and a flexible nasal seal connected or connectable to the seal housing to define a mask cavity. The nasal seal extends between a face-contacting side and an outer side. The nasal seal has a contacting surface having an edge that defines a nose-receiving opening into the mask cavity and which is configured to seal about the user's nose. The nasal seal also has an under-nose support fixedly connected into the seal and which is configured to extend within the mask cavity and having a contact surface that is oriented to contact at least a portion of the under-nose surface of the user.