CN111150542A

CN111150542A - Snore stopper

Info

Publication number: CN111150542A
Application number: CN202010082272.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈创荣; 李丹云; 李柯谊; 高帅; 吴嘉仪; 廖秋华
Original assignee: Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Current assignee: Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Priority date: 2020-02-07
Filing date: 2020-02-07
Publication date: 2020-05-15

Abstract

The invention provides a snore stopping device, and relates to the field of snore stopping devices. The snore stopper comprises a snore stopper main body and a restraining headband, wherein the snore stopper main body comprises a main body shell, a massage module, a pulse current module and a snore detection module, the main body shell is provided with an arc-shaped attaching part which is used for being matched with the outline of the throat neck of a human body, the restraining headband is connected with the main body shell, and a first wearing space for containing the head of the human body is formed between the main body shell and the restraining headband; the massage module comprises a driving motor and a massage head, a through hole for the massage head to extend out is formed in the position, corresponding to the Lianquan point of a human body, of the main body shell, the snore detection module is electrically connected with the pulse current module, and a snore loudness set value is preset in the snore detection module. The massage module massages corresponding acupuncture points of a patient to relieve the effect, the restraint headband ensures that the snore stopper main body is attached to the position of the throat, the patient is prevented from being unconsciously picked up after falling asleep, the treatment reliability during sleep is improved, and the effect of effectively stopping the snore is achieved.

Description

Snore stopper

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of snore relieving appliances, in particular to a snore relieving appliance.

Background

Snoring is a symptom which often appears after people sleep well, and snoring is formed when the snore of a patient reaches a certain loudness and affects normal breathing. Some snore patients suffer from breath holding during sleep, which is also called obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and seriously harms the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems of human bodies.

If the Chinese patent invention with the publication number of CN104906690B and the publication date of 2017.05.03 discloses a throat detection micro-current acupoint stimulation snore relieving device, and particularly discloses the snore relieving device which comprises a resonant cavity, a tuning fork, a pulse generating module and a pulse head, wherein the sound receiving position of the resonant cavity is placed at the throat part of a user, the tuning fork is assembled in the resonant cavity, a magnetic block is fixed on a vibration plectrum of the tuning fork, a coil which is vertical to the direction of magnetic lines of force of the magnetic block is fixed in the resonant cavity, the vibration direction of the tuning fork is vertical to the direction of the magnetic lines of force of the magnetic block, the end of the coil is connected with the pulse generating module, the pulse generating module is connected with the pulse head through an electric wire, and the periphery of. The snore stopping device is used on the throat of a snorer, the sound receiving position of the resonant cavity is placed on the jaw of the snorer, the snore enables the tuning fork to cut magnetic induction lines in a resonant mode to generate current, and the pulse generating module generates pulse current to stimulate acupuncture points of a user, so that an airway of the snorer is opened.

When the snore stopper in the prior art is used, the pulse current stimulation effect can be generated only when a wearer snores, so that the continuous occurrence of snore behaviors is inhibited. However, in the case of a snore patient, the snore-preventing effect cannot be alleviated in the early stage of sleep, and an unintentional removal operation is likely to occur after sleep onset, and the adhesive sheet is detached from the skin of the patient, which causes a problem that effective snore stopping cannot be achieved.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a snore stopper, which solves the problems that the existing snore stopper cannot prevent snoring patients from falling off during the early stage of sleep, and the adhesive sheet is easily detached from the skin of the patients after falling asleep, thereby preventing effective snore from being stopped.

The technical scheme of the snore stopping device bag of the invention is as follows:

the snore stopper comprises a snore stopper main body and a restraining headband, wherein the snore stopper main body comprises a main body shell, a massage module, a pulse current module and a snore detection module, the massage module, the pulse current module and the snore detection module are arranged in the main body shell, the main body shell is provided with an arc-shaped attaching part used for being matched with the outline of the throat neck of a human body, the restraining headband is connected with the main body shell, and a first wearing space used for containing the head of the human body is formed between the main body shell and the restraining headband;

the massage module comprises a driving motor and a massage head, a through hole for the massage head to extend out is formed in the position, corresponding to the Lianquan point of the human body, of the main body shell, the snore detection module is electrically connected with the pulse current module, and a snore loudness set value is preset in the snore detection module.

Has the advantages that: the snore stopper main body is fixed on the lower side of the chin of the head of a human body by using the restraining headband, so that the arc-shaped attaching part of the main body shell is attached to the position of the throat of the human body, the action that the mouth of a patient is not opened automatically during sleeping can be restrained, and the corresponding acupuncture points of the patient can be massaged and relieved by the massage module; the massage module simulates the traditional massage action, can continuously stimulate corresponding acupuncture points, increases the fluidity and temperature of local blood, and has the effect of effectively relieving and preventing snoring for patients in the early stage of sleep; in addition, the main body of the snore stopper is ensured to be attached to the position of the throat of a human body through the restraint headband, the main body of the snore stopper is prevented from being unintentionally removed after a patient falls asleep, the treatment reliability during sleep is improved, and the effect of effectively stopping snore is achieved.

Furthermore, the main body shell is also connected with a restraint neck strap, the restraint neck strap and the restraint head strap are arranged in a diverging manner, and a second wearing space for accommodating the neck of the human body is formed between the restraint neck strap and the main body shell.

Further, the main body shell is a C-shaped shell, the arc inner side face of the C-shaped shell forms an arc attaching portion used for being matched with the contour of the throat of a human body, and a containing cavity for installing the massage module, the pulse current module and the snore detection module is arranged in the middle of the inside of the C-shaped shell.

Furthermore, the through-hole is seted up in on the arc inside wall of C font casing, the arc inside wall of C font casing still is equipped with the motor mount pad, driving motor fixed connection be in on the motor mount pad, just driving motor's main shaft with the massage head is connected.

Furthermore, the massage head is in a concave shape, the main shaft of the driving motor is connected with the middle section of the massage head, and the protruding parts at the two ends of the massage head are used for being in frictional contact with the skin of a human body.

Furthermore, the snore detecting module comprises a processor, a microphone, a breathing sensor and a memory, wherein the processor is electrically connected with the microphone, the breathing sensor, the memory and the pulse current module respectively, and the snore loudness setting value is arranged in the memory.

Further, a power supply is also arranged in the main body shell, and the power supply is electrically connected with the snore detecting module and the pulse current module; the lower side surface of the main body shell is provided with at least two conductive patches corresponding to the two sides of the throat of the human body, and at least two conductive patches and the pulse current module are connected with a lead.

Further, still be equipped with bluetooth receiving module in the main part shell, bluetooth receiving module and treater electric connection.

Furthermore, the restraint head band is provided with an elastic telescopic section, and the restraint head band is connected with the main body shell in an adhering mode through a magic tape; the structure of the neck restraint strap is the same as that of the head restraint strap.

Further, the outside of the main body shell is wrapped with a sponge cushion layer.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a snore stopper in an embodiment 1 of the snore stopper of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the back structure of the snore stopper of FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a schematic partial cross-sectional view of the massage module of fig. 2;

FIG. 4 is a circuit control diagram of the snore detecting module and the pulse current module in the embodiment 1 of the snore stopper of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a diagram of the state of the snore stopper in use when wearing the snore stopper in embodiment 1 of the snore stopper of the invention.

In the figure: the snore stopping device comprises a 1-snore stopping device main body, a 10-C-shaped shell, a 100-arc inner side face, 101-through holes, 11-sponge cushion layers, 12-conductive patches, 2-constraint head bands, 20-first wearing space, 21-first elastic telescopic sections, 22-first magic tapes, 3-constraint neck bands, 30-second wearing space, 31-second elastic telescopic sections, 32-second magic tapes, 4-massage modules, 40-driving motors, 41-massage heads, 42-main shafts, 43-motor mounting seats, 5-snore detection modules, 50-processors, 51-microphones, 52-breath detection modules, 53-memories, 54-Bluetooth receiving modules, 6-pulse current modules, 7-power supplies and 8-spring-clean points.

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of embodiments of the present invention is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings and examples. The following examples are intended to illustrate the invention but are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

In a specific embodiment 1 of the snore stopper of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 to 5, the snore stopper includes a snore stopper main body 1, a restraint headband 2, and a restraint napestrap 3, the snore stopper main body 1 includes a main body housing, a massage module 4, a pulse current module 6, and a snore detection module 5, the main body housing has an arc-shaped fitting portion for fitting with the contour of the throat and neck of a human body, the restraint headband 2 is connected to the main body housing, and a first wearing space 30 for accommodating the head of the human body is formed between the main body housing and the restraint headband 2. In this embodiment, the main body casing is a C-shaped casing 10, an arc inner side surface 100 of the C-shaped casing 10 forms an arc attaching portion for matching with the contour of the throat of a human body, and a containing cavity for installing the massage module 4, the pulse current module 6 and the snore detecting module 5 is arranged in the middle position inside the C-shaped casing 10.

Specifically, the C-shaped shell 10 is made of hard plastics, and the arc inner side surface 100 of the C-shaped shell 10 is matched with the contour of the throat of a human body, so that good fitting degree and comfort are guaranteed when a patient wears the mask. The snore stopping device main body 1 is fixed on the lower side of the chin of the head of a human body through the restraining headband 2, so that the arc inner side surface 100 of the C-shaped shell 10 is attached to the position of the throat of the human body, the action that the mouth of a patient opens autonomously during sleeping can be restrained, and the corresponding acupuncture points of the patient can be massaged and relieved through the massage module 4. The massage module 4 comprises a driving motor 40 and a massage head 41, and the main body shell 10 is provided with a through hole 101 for the massage head 41 to extend out corresponding to the position of the Lianquan point 8 of the human body.

In this embodiment, the through hole 101 is opened on the arc-shaped inner side wall 100 of the C-shaped housing 10, and the arc-shaped inner side wall 100 of the C-shaped housing 10 in the accommodating cavity is further provided with a motor mounting seat 43, as shown in fig. 3, the driving motor 40 is fixedly connected to the motor mounting seat 43, and the spindle 42 of the driving motor 40 is connected to the massage head 41. In addition, the massage head 41 is in a concave shape, that is, the massage head 41 includes a middle section and protruding parts at both ends, the main shaft 42 of the driving motor 40 is connected with the middle section of the massage head 41, and the protruding parts at both ends of the massage head 41 are used for being in frictional contact with the skin of the human body. When the driving motor 40 works, the main shaft 42 rotates to drive the massage head 41 to rotate, the protruding parts at the two ends of the massage head 41 are in friction contact with the skin of the Lianquan point 8 of the human body, the annular pressing and rubbing action in the traditional massage method is simulated, the Lianquan point 8 can be continuously stimulated, the fluidity and the temperature of local blood are increased, the effects of clearing heat from throat, benefiting tongue and smoothing qi activity are achieved, and the effects of effectively relieving and preventing snoring are achieved for a patient in the early period of falling asleep.

In order to improve the wearing comfort of the snore stopper main body 1, the sponge cushion layer 11 is coated outside the C-shaped shell 10, and the sponge cushion layer 11 has the characteristics of softness, micro elasticity, moisture absorption and sweat releasing, so that the problem that the throat and neck of a patient sweat seriously during sleeping can be effectively avoided. In addition, a restraining neck strap 3 is connected to the C-shaped shell 10, the restraining neck strap 3 and the restraining head strap 2 are arranged in a diverging manner, the restraining head strap 2 and the restraining neck strap 3 are respectively connected to two ends of the C-shaped shell 10, and a second wearing space 30 for accommodating the neck of the human body is formed between the restraining neck strap 3 and the main body shell 3. When wearing, put 1 subsides of snore stopper main part with the patient neck, make the arc inside wall 100 of C font casing 10 attached at the chin position of patient, will restrain bandeau 2 and tightly wind at the head restraint napestrap of patient 3 tightly at the neck of patient, guarantee through restraint bandeau 2 that massage module 4 aims at the work of liangquan cave 8, prevent 1 following necks of snore stopper main part from droing through restraint napestrap 3, prevent that the patient from falling after falling asleep unconsciously plucking snore stopper main part 1, the treatment reliability during the sleep has been improved.

In addition, the restraint head band 2 is provided with an elastic telescopic section, and the restraint head band 2 is connected with the C-shaped shell 10 in an adhering mode through a magic tape; restraint neck strap 3 is the same with restraint bandeau 2's structure, it is specific, restraint bandeau 2 includes the flexible strap of middle first elastic stretch section 21 and both ends, restraint bandeau 2's flexible strap and C font casing 10 fixed connection, wherein the flexible strap of one end is disconnected formula structure, the disconnection position of flexible strap is equipped with first magic subsides 22, thereby it connects as an organic wholely to make the flexible strap of disconnection through the bonding cooperation between first magic subsides 22, restraint bandeau 2's releasable connection has been realized promptly, elasticity when having realized snore stopper main part 1 again and wearing is adjustable. Correspondingly, restraint neck strap 3 includes the flexible strap at the flexible strap of the flexible section of second elasticity 31 in the middle of and both ends, and is equipped with second magic subsides 32 on restraint neck strap 3's the flexible strap, can reach the purpose of the tight regulation restraint neck strap 3 when wearing equally.

In this embodiment, the snore detecting module 5 is electrically connected to the pulse current module 6, and a snore loudness setting value is preset in the snore detecting module 5. The snore detecting module 5 comprises a processor 50, a microphone 51, a breathing sensor 52 and a memory 53, the processor 50 is electrically connected with the microphone 50, the breathing sensor 51, the memory 53 and the pulse current module 6 respectively, and a snore loudness setting value is arranged in the memory 53 of the snore detecting module 5. Specifically, the processor 50 selects an STM32F103R6 singlechip, and a CORTEX-M3 kernel is adopted, so that the processor has the characteristics of low energy consumption, low cost, good performance and the like; the microphone 51 is a miniature microphone, the respiration sensor 52 is a PVDF respiration sensor, the design of combining the microphone 51 and the respiration sensor 52 is adopted, the microphone 51 and the respiration sensor 52 are respectively used for detecting the snore loudness and the respiration frequency of a patient, and the snore state of the patient during sleeping is detected through the snore signal and the respiration signal together.

The microphone 51 acquires the snore of the patient in real time, converts the snore audio signal into a snore electric signal and transmits the snore electric signal to the processor 50, the processor 50 judges whether the current snore exceeds a preset snore loudness set value in the memory 53, if so, the pulse current module 6 is controlled to work, the pulse current is adopted to stimulate the body surface of the patient, and the patient can adjust the sleeping posture automatically; if not, continuing monitoring. In addition, the interior of the respiration sensor 52 is provided with a filter circuit and an amplification chip with the model of LM358, the filter circuit is used for processing environmental noise and power frequency interference generated by the circuit, the amplification chip is used for enhancing weak electrical signals generated by obtaining respiratory vibration of the patient, the enhanced respiratory electrical signals are transmitted to the processor 50, and whether the patient is in a dangerous condition of apnea currently or not is judged through the processor 50. The sleep state of the patient is monitored through the two modes, and the safety of the patient in the sleep period is guaranteed.

The C-shaped shell 10 is also internally provided with a power supply 7, the power supply 7 is electrically connected with the snore detecting module 5 and the pulse current module 6, and the power supply 7 supplies current required by work to the processor 50, the microphone 51, the respiration sensor 52 and the memory 53 of the snore detecting module 5. Specifically, the pulse current module 6 is provided with a pulse current generating circuit for converting direct current output by the power supply 7 into pulse current, and it should be noted that the waveform of the pulse current is square wave pulse, the frequency is 1 to 8Hz, the magnitude of the pulse current is about 1 milliampere, which is far lower than the safety current of human body, and the stimulation effect of acupuncture can be simulated. Two conductive patches 12 are arranged on the lower side surface of the C-shaped shell 10 corresponding to two sides of the throat of a human body, a lead is connected between the two conductive patches 12 and the pulse current module 6, and a current loop is formed among the pulse current module 6, the lead, the conductive patches 12 and the skin of the human body.

In addition, a bluetooth receiving module 54 is further disposed in the C-shaped housing 10, the bluetooth receiving module 54 is electrically connected to the processor 50 of the snore detecting module 5, the bluetooth receiving module 54 is a master-slave integrated bluetooth module HC05HC05, and can receive an external bluetooth signal and transmit the external bluetooth signal to the processor 50, so as to adjust a snore loudness setting value of the snore detecting module 5 and a pulse current of the pulse current module 6. The external Bluetooth signal can be a mobile phone of a patient, the Bluetooth of the mobile phone is started to be connected with the Bluetooth receiving module 54 of the snore stopping device, and the working mode and corresponding parameters of the snore stopping device can be conveniently adjusted by operating the mobile phone.

In other specific embodiments of the snore stopping device, in order to adapt to different use requirements, the restraining neck strap can be directly omitted, only the restraining head strap is reserved, the net bag structure is arranged at the position, corresponding to the top of the head, of the restraining head strap, and the restraining head strap is tightly wrapped on the head of a patient through the net bag structure, so that the snore stopping device main body is attached to the throat and neck of the patient, and the reliability of wearing and massage functions is guaranteed.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and substitutions can be made without departing from the technical principle of the present invention, and these modifications and substitutions should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A snore stopper is characterized by comprising a snore stopper main body and a restraining headband, wherein the snore stopper main body comprises a main body shell, a massage module, a pulse current module and a snore detection module, the massage module, the pulse current module and the snore detection module are arranged in the main body shell, the main body shell is provided with an arc-shaped attaching part used for being matched with the outline of a throat of a human body, the restraining headband is connected with the main body shell, and a first wearing space used for containing the head of the human body is formed between the main body shell and the restraining headband;

2. The snore stopper of claim 1, wherein the main body shell is further connected with a restraining neck strap, the restraining neck strap is arranged to be separated from the restraining head strap, and a second wearing space for accommodating the neck of the human body is formed between the restraining neck strap and the main body shell.

3. The snore relieving device of claim 2, wherein the main body casing is a C-shaped casing, the arc-shaped inner side surface of the C-shaped casing forms the arc-shaped attaching portion for matching with the contour of the throat of the human body, and an accommodating cavity for installing the massage module, the pulse current module and the snore detecting module is arranged in the middle position inside the C-shaped casing.

4. The snore relieving device of claim 3, wherein the through hole is opened on the arc-shaped inner side wall of the C-shaped shell, the arc-shaped inner side wall of the C-shaped shell is further provided with a motor mounting seat, the driving motor is fixedly connected on the motor mounting seat, and a main shaft of the driving motor is connected with the massage head.

5. The snore relieving device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the massage head is in a concave shape, the main shaft of the driving motor is connected with the middle section of the massage head, and the protruding parts at the two ends of the massage head are used for being in frictional contact with the skin of a human body.

6. The snore stopper of claim 1, wherein the snore detecting module comprises a processor, a microphone, a breathing sensor and a memory, wherein the processor is electrically connected with the microphone, the breathing sensor, the memory and the pulse current module respectively, and the snore loudness setting value is set in the memory.

7. The snore relieving device of claim 6, wherein a power supply is further arranged in the main body shell, and the power supply is electrically connected with the snore detecting module and the pulse current module; the lower side surface of the main body shell is provided with at least two conductive patches corresponding to the two sides of the throat of the human body, and at least two conductive patches and the pulse current module are connected with a lead.

8. The snore relieving device of claim 6, wherein a Bluetooth receiving module is further arranged in the main body shell, and the Bluetooth receiving module is electrically connected with the processor.

9. The snore relieving device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the restraining headband is provided with an elastic expansion section, and the restraining headband is adhesively connected with the main body shell by a magic tape; the structure of the neck restraint strap is the same as that of the head restraint strap.

10. The snore relieving device of claim 1, wherein the main body casing is externally covered with a sponge cushion.