CN111588535A

CN111588535A - Adjustable lower jaw support for reducing snoring and working method thereof

Info

Publication number: CN111588535A
Application number: CN202010544797.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 伊雪; 谢红旗
Original assignee: Xiamen Medical College
Current assignee: Xiamen Medical College
Priority date: 2020-06-15
Filing date: 2020-06-15
Publication date: 2020-08-28

Abstract

The invention relates to an adjustable lower jaw support for reducing snoring and a working method thereof, and the adjustable lower jaw support comprises a head wearing assembly and a lower jaw support assembly arranged at the lower end of the head wearing assembly, wherein the head wearing assembly is convenient for a patient suffering from snoring to wear, the lower jaw support assembly comprises a horizontally arranged U-shaped bracket, the bottom surfaces of two side edges of the front end of the bracket are fixedly connected with a pair of supporting plates respectively arranged below lower jaws of two sides of the head, each supporting plate is provided with a lower jaw push plate used for being in contact with the lower jaw, and the lower jaw push plates are pushed by a pushing assembly to slide along the front-back direction so as to push the lower jaw to move forwards and horizontally by 5-7 mm. The invention has reasonable design, utilizes the expansion of the air bag or the water bag as power to push the mandible to move forwards horizontally so as to enlarge the oropharyngeal cavity, effectively reduce snoring and have convenient use.

Description

Adjustable lower jaw support for reducing snoring and working method thereof

The technical field is as follows:

the invention relates to an adjustable lower jaw support for reducing snoring and a working method thereof.

Background art:

it is well known that small mandibular deformities are often accompanied by narrowing of the respiratory tract: the patient can snore at night, which has bad influence on health, causes respiratory tract stenosis and respiratory obstruction, and is a problem to be taken into consideration. The traditional treatment mode of the small mandibular deformity is surgical treatment or an adjustable and removable Herbst appliance is used, and the two modes have the problem of high price. In medicine, if the mandible can be horizontally moved forward by 5-7mm, the narrow area of the oropharyngeal cavity can be improved by 20-30%, which is proved by the research of domestic and foreign experts. Therefore, how to horizontally move the mandible of the snoring patient forward by 5-7mm becomes a technical problem to be solved urgently.

The invention content is as follows:

the invention aims at solving the problems in the prior art, namely the invention aims to provide the adjustable lower jaw support for reducing snoring and the working method thereof, the structural design is reasonable, and the phenomenon of snoring of a snoring patient is effectively reduced.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that: the utility model provides a jaw holds in palm with adjustable reduce snore, includes wears the subassembly and sets up the jaw support subassembly at wearing the subassembly lower extreme, jaw support subassembly includes the bracket, the front end of bracket is connected firmly a pair of layer board that is used for setting up respectively in head both sides jaw below, is provided with the jaw push pedal that is used for contacting with the jaw on every layer board, the jaw push pedal promotes by the inflation back of inflation piece and slides along the fore-and-aft direction to promote jaw horizontal migration forward.

Further, the top surface of layer board is equipped with the horizontal spout that extends along the fore-and-aft direction, the lower extreme of mandible push pedal stretch into in the horizontal spout and with horizontal spout sliding connection, the inside reset spring that is equipped with of rear end of horizontal spout, reset spring's rear end and the rear end face of horizontal spout are connected firmly, the front end is connected firmly with the lower extreme of mandible push pedal for the pulling mandible push pedal resets backward.

Further, the propulsion assembly is an expansion piece, and the expansion piece is arranged between the rear end of the mandible push plate and the front end face of the bracket.

Further, the expansion part comprises at least one air bag arranged side by side in the front-back direction or at least one water bag arranged side by side in the front-back direction, each air bag is connected with an air pump through an air pipe, and each water bag is connected with a water pump through a water pipe.

Further, the mandible push pedal comprises a plurality of mandible push blocks arranged at intervals along the front-back direction, and a propelling component is arranged between the front end faces of the mandible push blocks and the bracket at the rear part and between two adjacent mandible push blocks and is an expansion part.

Further, the expansion piece is an air bag or a water bag, the air bag is connected with the air pump through an air pipe, and the water bag is connected with the water pump through a water pipe.

Furthermore, the shape of the mandible push plate and the horizontal sliding groove is matched with the shape of the mandible of the head.

Furthermore, a plurality of mounting holes are formed in one side wall of the horizontal sliding groove at intervals in the front-back direction, a limiting block is arranged in each mounting hole, and a compression spring is abutted between each limiting block and the bottom of each mounting hole; one side wall of the rear end of the mandible push plate is provided with a limiting hole which is beneficial to the extension of one end of the limiting block far away from the compression spring.

Furthermore, the head-wearing assembly comprises a head sleeve, the lower end of the head sleeve is fixedly connected with the top surfaces of the supporting plate and the bracket, and a through hole which is beneficial to the penetration of a power transmission pipe of the expansion piece is formed in the position, corresponding to the position of the expansion piece, of the side wall of the head sleeve.

The other technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows: a working method of an adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring comprises the steps that when the adjustable mandible support is in use, a snoring patient wears a head wearing assembly on the head, a pair of supporting plates are respectively positioned below mandibles on two sides of the head, then an air bag or a water bag expands and deforms, a mandible push plate is pushed to slide forwards by the expansion deformation of the air bag or the water bag, the mandible push plate is pushed to move forwards horizontally while sliding forwards, so that the oropharyngeal cavity of the snoring patient is enlarged, and the snoring patient is reduced; when the air bag or the water bag is restored to the original state, the mandible push plate slides backwards under the pulling of the return spring, so that the mandible moves backwards to the initial position.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following effects: the invention has reasonable design, utilizes the expansion of the air bag or the water bag as power to push the mandible to move forwards horizontally so as to enlarge the oropharyngeal cavity, effectively reduce snoring and have convenient use.

Description of the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic front sectional view of a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic front view of the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic top view of the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a top view of a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic top view of the second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic front view showing the structure of the second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic front view showing the structure of the third embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the fitting structure of the mandible pushing plate and the splint according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged schematic view at A in FIG. 8;

fig. 10 is a schematic top view of the fifth embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure:

1-a headgear assembly; 2-a mandibular rest assembly; 3-a bracket; 4-a supporting plate; 5-mandible push plate; 6-horizontal chute; 7-a return spring; 8-an expansion member; 9-air bag; 10-water bag; 11-trachea; 12-a water pipe; 13-headgear; 14-avoiding holes; 15-a through hole; 16-mandible push block; 17-hanging holes; 18-mounting holes; 19-a limiting block; 20-compression spring; 21-a limiting hole; 22-a connecting plate; 23-pushing the expansion piece; 24-a head; 241-mandible; 242-chin.

The specific implementation mode is as follows:

the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "longitudinal", "lateral", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience of description of the present invention, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

The first embodiment is as follows: as shown in fig. 1 to 4, the adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring of the present invention comprises a head-wearing assembly 1 and a mandible support assembly 2 disposed at a lower end of the head-wearing assembly 1, wherein the head-wearing assembly 1 is convenient for a patient suffering from snoring to wear, the mandible support assembly 2 comprises a horizontally disposed U-shaped bracket 3, a pair of support plates 4 disposed below mandible at two sides of a head 24 are fixedly connected to bottom surfaces of two side edges of a front end of the bracket 3, respectively, each support plate 4 is provided with a mandible push plate 5 contacting with the mandible 241, and the mandible push plate 5 is pushed by a pushing assembly to slide along a front-back direction so as to push the mandible to move horizontally forward by 5-7 mm.

In this embodiment, the top surface of layer board 4 is equipped with the horizontal spout 6 that extends along the fore-and-aft direction, the lower extreme of mandible push pedal 5 stretch into in the horizontal spout 6 and with 6 sliding connection of horizontal spout, the inside reset spring 7 that is equipped with in rear end of horizontal spout 6, the rear end of reset spring 7 is connected firmly with the rear end face of horizontal spout 6, the front end is connected firmly with the lower extreme of mandible push pedal 5 for pull the mandible push pedal and reset backward under the state that the inflation piece resumes not expanded. Preferably, the horizontal sliding groove 6 has a sectional shape corresponding to that of the lower end of the mandibular pushing plate 5.

In this embodiment, mandible push pedal 5 formula structure as an organic whole, it is expansion piece 8 to impel the subassembly, expansion piece 8 is located between the front end face of the rear end of mandible push pedal 5 and bracket 3. Preferably, the expansion member 8 comprises four air bags 9 or four water bags 10 arranged side by side in the front-back direction, and if the expansion member 8 is the air bag 9, each air bag 9 is connected with an air pump (not shown in the figure) through an air pipe 11; if the expansion members 8 are water bags 10, each water bag 10 is connected to a water pump (not shown) via a water pipe 12. The air bag or the water bag is used as a power source, so that the operation is convenient, and the use is safe and reliable. Because everybody's skeleton shape's difference adopts four gasbags or four water sacs combination to use, not only conveniently adjusts thrust as required, chooses one or more of them to expand as required when using moreover, can increase the inflation volume like this, adapts to different users, improves application scope.

In this embodiment, in order to improve the safety in utilization, still include the pressure sensor who is used for detecting gasbag or water pocket pressure, pressure sensor is connected with air pump or water pump through a control unit (such as singlechip), compares with the setting value according to the pressure value that pressure sensor detected, and when being greater than the setting value, control unit control air pump or water pump close, avoids the pressure to cause the crushing wound to the human body too big.

In this embodiment, the shape of the mandible pushing plate 5 and the horizontal sliding groove 6 is adapted to the shape of the mandible of the head.

In this embodiment, the mandible pushing plate 5 is made of a material having good compatibility with the skin (preventing pressure injury and allergy).

In this embodiment, the headgear assembly 1 includes the headgear 13, the headgear 13 is full package formula structure, and the front end of headgear 13 is equipped with the vision zone opening and breathes the district opening, and the vision zone opening communicates with the breathing district opening, and the hole of dodging 14 in order to do benefit to that the ear was worn out is offered to the left and right sides of headgear 13, the lower extreme of headgear 13 is connected with the top surface of layer board 4 and bracket 3 admittedly.

In this embodiment, the through hole 15 is disposed at a position corresponding to the side wall of the head cover 13 and the expansion member 8, so as to facilitate the passage of the power transmission pipe of the expansion member 8, and the through hole 15 is long and moves along the front-back direction, so as to facilitate the movement of the pipeline when the air bag 9 or the water bag 10 is expanded.

In the embodiment, when the snore-treating head-mounted component is used, a snore patient wears the head-mounted component 1 on the head 24, the bracket 3 is positioned at the rear end of the neck, the pair of supporting plates 4 are respectively positioned below mandibles 241 on two sides of the head 24, then the air bag 9 or the water bag 10 expands and deforms, the expansion deformation of the air bag 9 or the water bag 0 is set, the mandibles push plate 5 is pushed to slide forwards by utilizing the expansion deformation of the air bag 9 or the water bag 10, the mandibles push plate 5 is pushed to move forwards horizontally by 5-7mm while sliding forwards, the mandibles are reduced from backward contraction, the sagittal diameter is increased, and the glossopharyngeal cavity is increased, so that the upper airway resistance is reduced and; when the air bag 9 or the water bag 10 is restored to the original state, the mandible push plate 5 slides backward under the pulling of the return spring 7, so that the mandible moves backward to the initial position.

Example two: as shown in fig. 5 to 6, the difference between the present embodiment and the first embodiment is that the mandible pushing plate 5 has a different structure, and the mandible pushing plate 5 in the present embodiment adopts a sectional structure, specifically: mandible push pedal 5 comprises a plurality of mandible ejector pads 16 along preceding back direction interval arrangement, and the lower extreme of mandible ejector pad 16 stretches into in horizontal spout 6 and along fore-and-aft direction sliding fit with horizontal spout 6, lies in between the preceding terminal surface of mandible ejector pad 6 at rear and bracket 3 and all is equipped with between two adjacent mandible ejector pads 16 and impels the subassembly, it is expansion member 8 to impel the subassembly.

In this embodiment, the expansion member 8 is an air bag 9 or a water bag 10, the air bag 8 is connected with an air pump through an air pipe 11, and the water bag 9 is connected with a water pump through a water pipe 12.

Example three: as shown in fig. 7, the difference between the present embodiment and the first embodiment is only the difference of the structure of the head cover 13, specifically: headgear 13 is half package formula structure, and this headgear 13 upper end is open structure, only is used for cladding the lower extreme of living the head, and headgear 13's both ends are equipped with the hanging hole 17 that is in order to do benefit to the ear to pass, through the hanging hole at both ends, can realize firmly dressing the headgear at the head.

Example four: as shown in fig. 8 to 9, the present embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that: a plurality of mounting holes 18 are formed in one side wall of the horizontal chute 6 at intervals in the front-back direction, a limiting block 19 is arranged in each mounting hole 18, and a compression spring 20 is abutted between each limiting block 19 and the bottom of each mounting hole 18; a limiting hole 21 is formed in one side wall of the rear end of the mandible pushing plate 5, so that one end, far away from the compression spring 20, of the limiting block 19 can extend into the limiting hole 21 conveniently, the shape of the limiting hole 21 is matched with that of the limiting block 19, and when the mandible pushing plate 5 is located at the rear, one end, located at the rearmost position, of the limiting block 19 extends into the limiting hole 21, so that the mandible pushing plate 5 is limited; when the expansion piece 8 expands to push the mandible push plate 5 to move forwards, the limiting hole 21 is separated from the limiting block 19 positioned at the rearmost part; when the limiting hole 21 is matched with the next limiting block 19, the lower jaw push plate 5 can be limited. Because the stopper has a plurality ofly, can form the spacing fixed of a plurality of positions to the mandible push pedal.

Example five: as shown in fig. 10, in this embodiment, a connecting plate 22 is fixedly connected between the front ends of a pair of supporting plates, the connecting plate 22 is located below the chin 242 of the head, a pushing expansion piece 23 is installed on the top surface of the connecting plate 22, the pushing expansion piece 23 is also an air bag 9 or a water bag 10, and the air bag or the water bag can be expanded to push the chin, so as to prevent snoring caused by mouth opening breathing of a snoring patient during sleep; the snoring of the patient can be further reduced by combining the structure with the mandible push plate.

If the invention discloses or relates to parts or structures which are fixedly connected to each other, the fixedly connected parts can be understood as follows, unless otherwise stated: a detachable fixed connection (for example using bolts or screws) is also understood as: non-detachable fixed connections (e.g. riveting, welding), but of course, fixed connections to each other may also be replaced by one-piece structures (e.g. manufactured integrally using a casting process) (unless it is obviously impossible to use an integral forming process).

In addition, terms used in any technical solutions disclosed in the present invention to indicate positional relationships or shapes include approximate, similar or approximate states or shapes unless otherwise stated.

Any part provided by the invention can be assembled by a plurality of independent components or can be manufactured by an integral forming process.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention and not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will understand that: modifications to the specific embodiments of the invention or equivalent substitutions for parts of the technical features may be made; without departing from the spirit of the present invention, it is intended to cover all aspects of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a jaw holds in palm with adjustable reduce snore holds in palm, includes head-mounted components and sets up the jaw support subassembly in head-mounted components lower extreme, its characterized in that: the lower jaw support assembly comprises a bracket, a pair of supporting plates used for being respectively arranged below the lower jaws on two sides of the head are fixedly connected to the front end of the bracket, a lower jaw push plate used for being in contact with the lower jaws is arranged on each supporting plate, and the lower jaw push plates are pushed by the pushing assembly to slide along the front-back direction so as to push the lower jaws to move forwards and horizontally.

2. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the top surface of layer board is equipped with the horizontal spout that extends along the fore-and-aft direction, the lower extreme of mandible push pedal stretch into in the horizontal spout and with horizontal spout sliding connection, the inside reset spring that is equipped with of rear end of horizontal spout, reset spring's rear end and the rear end face of horizontal spout link firmly, the front end links firmly with the lower extreme of mandible push pedal for the pulling mandible push pedal resets backward.

3. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the propelling component is an expansion piece, and the expansion piece is arranged between the rear end of the mandible push plate and the front end face of the bracket.

4. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the expansion piece comprises at least one air bag arranged side by side in the front-back direction or at least one water bag arranged side by side in the front-back direction, each air bag is connected with an air pump through an air pipe, and each water bag is connected with a water pump through a water pipe.

5. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the mandible push pedal comprises a plurality of mandible push blocks arranged at intervals along the front and back direction, and a propelling component is arranged between the front end faces of the mandible push blocks positioned at the back and the bracket and between two adjacent mandible push blocks and is an expansion part.

6. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 5, wherein: the expansion piece is an air bag or a water bag, the air bag is connected with an air pump through an air pipe, and the water bag is connected with a water pump through a water pipe.

7. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the shape of the mandible push plate and the horizontal sliding groove is matched with the shape of the mandible of the head.

8. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 2, wherein: a plurality of mounting holes are formed in one side wall of the horizontal sliding groove at intervals in the front-back direction, a limiting block is arranged in each mounting hole, and a compression spring is abutted between each limiting block and the bottom of each mounting hole; one side wall of the rear end of the mandible push plate is provided with a limiting hole which is beneficial to the extension of one end of the limiting block far away from the compression spring.

9. The adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the head-wearing component comprises a head sleeve, the lower end of the head sleeve is fixedly connected with the top surfaces of the supporting plate and the bracket, and a through hole which is beneficial to the penetration of a power conveying pipe of the expansion piece is formed in the position, corresponding to the position of the expansion piece, of the side wall of the head sleeve.

10. A working method of an adjustable mandibular support for reducing snoring is characterized in that: the adjustable mandible support for reducing snoring as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein when in use, a snoring patient wears the head-mounted assembly on the head, the pair of supporting plates are respectively positioned below mandibles at two sides of the head, then the air bag or the water bag expands and deforms, the mandible push plate is pushed to slide forwards by the expansion deformation of the air bag or the water bag, the mandible push plate is pushed to move forwards horizontally while sliding forwards, so that the oropharyngeal cavity of the snoring patient is enlarged, and the snoring of the snoring patient is reduced; when the air bag or the water bag is restored to the original state, the mandible push plate slides backwards under the pulling of the return spring, so that the mandible moves backwards to the initial position.