CN113499185B - Oral cavity correcting snore stopping device and handle - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to the technical field of medical instruments, in particular to an oral cavity correcting snore stopper and a handle. The invention aims to solve the technical problems that the existing snore stopper is inconvenient to adjust and easy to misplace. To this end, the present invention provides an oral appliance snore stopper comprising: the bottom of the upper dental tray is provided with a bottom matching part; the lower dental tray, the top of lower dental tray is provided with the top cooperation portion with bottom cooperation portion complex, and one of bottom cooperation portion and top cooperation portion is provided with the elasticity pothook that extends from top to bottom, and another one of bottom cooperation portion and top cooperation portion is provided with the hook groove with elasticity pothook complex, under the circumstances that upper dental tray and lower dental tray were installed in place from top to bottom, elasticity pothook passes through extrusion deformation's mode joint to in the hook groove. The oral correction snore stopper achieves the purpose of up-down positioning through the matching of the elastic hooks and the hook grooves, so that the adjustment convenience of the oral correction snore stopper is improved, and the dislocation phenomenon in the use process is reduced.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of medical instruments, in particular to an oral cavity correcting snore stopper and a handle.
Background
This section provides merely background information related to the present disclosure and is not necessarily prior art.
The oral appliance is suitable for patients with 'obstructive sleep apnea syndrome' (commonly called 'snoring') caused by palatopharyngeal airway obstruction, especially for patients with mandibular retrofits, and the product is worn in the mouth when the patients sleep, so that the mandible is properly stretched, the upper airway is kept smooth, and the apneas and snoring sounds are eliminated or reduced, and the sleep quality is improved. The main mechanism of the oral appliance snore relieving device for treating OSA is to generate morphological change on the oral cavity, which belongs to physiotherapy and needs patients to wear for a long time during sleeping.
The mandibular advancement appliance is the appliance which is most widely used at present, the mandible is passively fixed at a forward and downward position during sleeping, simultaneously, the genioglossus muscle contracts to drive the tongue body to move forward, the compression of the tongue body on the soft palate is relieved, the narrow palatopharyngeal is enlarged, the stability of the upper airway is increased, and therefore the sleeping respiratory obstruction is relieved.
The mandibular advancement appliances may be divided into: (1) The integral oral appliance is formed by a whole plastic base, the appliance is a complete whole, and after the upper and lower jaw teeth are respectively positioned, the lower jaw is positioned downwards and forwards and cannot move in other directions; (2) The split oral appliance consists of an upper part and a lower part which are separated from each other, the two parts are contacted with each other after being worn, the mandible can do a certain range of forward and lateral movement, and the amplitude of the mandible forward movement is easy to adjust.
According to whether the mandibular position that the snore stopper decides is adjustable in oral cavity correction, divide into: (1) An unadjustable appliance, the mandibular position of which is determined before the appliance is manufactured and is recorded and transferred by dental wax, and once the appliance is manufactured, the mandibular position cannot be adjusted unless the appliance is manufactured again; (2) The adjustable appliance is internally provided with a simple device capable of adjusting the position of the lower jaw, so that the lower jaw is gradually moved forward, and the optimal position is obtained in the aspects of satisfactory curative effect and comfortable lower jaw.
The current adjustable structure in the market mainly comprises: the relative positions of the upper sheet device and the lower sheet device are adjusted through screws, the relative positions are adjusted through connecting rods on two sides, and the relative positions are adjusted through a linkage shaft mechanism of pushing clamping teeth. The above all have the adjustment accuracy and can not satisfy the user demand or the thrust force is great when adjusting and not well controlled and take place the left and right sides dislocation easily, can't guarantee the oral cavity to correct snore stopper upper and lower jaw convenient and reliable's completion and adjust.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides an oral cavity correcting snore stopper and a handle, which aim to solve the technical problems that the existing snore stopper is inconvenient to adjust and easy to misplace, and the aim is realized by the following technical scheme:
the first aspect of the invention provides an oral appliance snore stopper, comprising: the bottom of the upper dental tray is provided with a bottom matching part; the lower dental tray, the top of lower dental tray is provided with the top cooperation portion with bottom cooperation portion complex, and one of bottom cooperation portion and top cooperation portion is provided with the elasticity pothook that extends from top to bottom, and another one of bottom cooperation portion and top cooperation portion is provided with the hook groove with elasticity pothook complex, under the circumstances that upper dental tray and lower dental tray were installed in place from top to bottom, elasticity pothook passes through extrusion deformation's mode joint to in the hook groove.
Further, the hook groove is arranged to be an E-shaped structure, the E-shaped structure comprises an upper hook groove and a lower hook groove, and one side of the elastic clamping hook, which faces the hook groove, is arranged to be a conical surface.
Further, the other of the bottom fitting portion and the top fitting portion is provided with elongated projections distributed in the front-rear direction, and the hook groove is an elongated groove provided in the side wall of the elongated projection.
Further, one of the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with guide blocks distributed along the front-back direction, the other one of the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with guide groove rails matched with the guide blocks, and the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray slide back and forth relatively under the guidance of the guide blocks and the guide groove rails.
Further, one of the bottom fitting portion and the top fitting portion is provided with a plurality of teeth, the other of the bottom fitting portion and the top fitting portion is provided with a plurality of tooth-locking grooves which are fitted with the plurality of teeth, and the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray are fixed in a front-rear manner through the plurality of teeth and the plurality of tooth-locking grooves when the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray are installed in place.
Further, the strip-shaped protrusions and the guide groove rails are respectively arranged on two sides of the plurality of tooth clamping grooves, and the elastic clamping hooks and the guide blocks are respectively arranged on two sides of the plurality of tooth clamping grooves.
Further, one side wall in the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with a graduated scale, the other side wall in the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with an arrow mark, and a plurality of graduations on the graduated scale are in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of latches.
Further, one of the bottom mating portion and the top mating portion is provided with a cantilever plate, and the plurality of latches are disposed on the cantilever plate.
Further, the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray are both arranged to be of U-shaped structures, the two ends of the upper dental tray are both provided with bottom matching parts, and the two ends of the lower dental tray are both provided with top matching parts.
The second aspect of the invention also provides a handle of the oral appliance snore stopper, the handle is used for operating the oral appliance snore stopper provided according to the first aspect of the invention, a pry plate inserted into a gap between an upper dental tray and a lower dental tray is arranged at the distal end of the handle, and an operation fin extending along the radial direction is arranged at the proximal end of the handle.
It can be understood by those skilled in the art that the oral correction snore stopper achieves the purpose of up-down positioning through the cooperation of the elastic hooks and the hook grooves, so that the adjustment convenience of the oral correction snore stopper is improved, and the dislocation phenomenon in the use process is reduced.
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Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to designate like parts throughout the figures. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an upper tray according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of a lower tray according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an assembly structure of an oral appliance snore stopper according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a side view of an oral appliance of one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a top view of an oral appliance of one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a split structure of an oral appliance snore stopper according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a side cross-sectional view of an oral appliance of one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an oral appliance of an embodiment of the present invention in a set position;
FIG. 9 is a schematic view of an oral appliance of an embodiment of the present invention in a positioned configuration;
FIG. 10 is a schematic view of an oral appliance of an embodiment of the present invention in a first state;
FIG. 11 is a schematic view of an oral appliance of an embodiment of the present invention in a second state;
FIG. 12 is a side view of the oral appliance snore stopper of FIG. 11 in a second state;
FIG. 13 is a schematic view of an oral appliance of an embodiment of the present invention in a third state;
FIG. 14 is a schematic view of a grip according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 15 is a schematic view of the oral appliance snore stopper and grip combination according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 16 is a side cross-sectional view of the oral appliance snore stopper of FIG. 15 mated with a handle;
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100. an oral appliance snore relieving device;
10. an upper tray; 11. a hook groove; 12. a guide groove rail; 13. a tooth slot is clamped; 14. a graduated scale; 15. an upper tooth adjusting structure; 16. an upper flexible pad;
20. a lower tray; 21. an elastic clamping hook; 22. a guide block; 23. latch teeth; 24. arrow mark; 25. a lower tooth adjusting structure; 26. a lower flexible pad;
200. a grip; 210. an operation lever; 220. a prying piece; 230. the tab is operated.
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Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.
It is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having" are inclusive and therefore specify the presence of stated features, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
Although the terms first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections, these elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections should not be limited by these terms. These terms may be only used to distinguish one element, component, region, layer or section from another region, layer or section. Terms such as "first," "second," and other numerical terms when used herein do not imply a sequence or order unless clearly indicated by the context. In addition, in the description of the present invention, unless explicitly stated and limited otherwise, the terms "disposed" and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to the specific circumstances.
For ease of description, spatially relative terms, such as "upper," "lower," "bottom," "top," "front-to-back," "inner," "adjacent," "end," "back," and the like, may be used herein to describe one element's or feature's relationship to another element's or feature as illustrated in the figures. Such spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" or "over" the other elements or features. Thus, the example term "below … …" may include both upper and lower orientations. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or in other directions) and the spatially relative relationship descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.
It should be noted that, the "front and back" in the embodiments of the present invention refers to the teeth, and the "front and back" direction of the oral appliance snore stopper and the upper tray and the lower tray is the same as the "front and back" direction of the teeth when the oral appliance snore stopper is placed in the oral cavity. Further, the "up-down" direction described in the embodiments of the present invention refers to a vertical direction perpendicular to the "front-back" direction described in the embodiments of the present invention.
In addition, the "proximal" and "distal" in the embodiments of the present invention are referred to as "proximal" and the end near the operator is referred to as "distal" respectively.
As shown in fig. 1 to 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides an oral appliance snore stopper 100, wherein the oral appliance snore stopper 100 includes an upper tray 10 and a lower tray 20 which are separated from each other, the upper tray 10 is mounted on the upper teeth, the lower tray 20 is mounted on the lower teeth when the oral appliance snore stopper 100 is used, and for fixing the relative position between the upper teeth and the lower teeth through the oral appliance snore stopper 100, the embodiment of the present invention proposes that a bottom mating part is provided at the bottom of the upper tray 10, and a top mating part mated with the bottom mating part is provided at the top of the lower tray 20, one of the bottom mating part and the top mating part is provided with an elastic hook 21 which extends up and down, and the other of the bottom mating part and the top mating part is provided with a hook groove 11 mated with the elastic hook 21, and the elastic hook 21 is snapped into the hook groove 11 by means of extrusion deformation when the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 are mounted in place up and down, so as to achieve the final relative position fixing between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 and the relative position.
Specifically, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the elastic hook 21 protrudes from the bottom mating part or the top mating part, the hook groove 11 may be concavely formed in the bottom mating part or the top mating part, the elongated protrusion distributed along the front-rear direction may be formed in the bottom mating part or the top mating part, then the elongated groove is formed on the sidewall of the elongated protrusion, and the adjusting space is provided for the front-rear relative position between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 by setting the hook groove 11 as the elongated groove distributed along the front-rear direction, so that the upper tray 10 can slide to a suitable position along the front-rear direction relative to the lower tray 20, and then the purpose of relative fixation is achieved by the cooperation between the elastic hook 21 and the hook groove 11.
As shown in fig. 7 to 9, further, in order to improve the clamping effect between the elastic hook 21 and the hook slot 11, the embodiment of the present invention proposes that the end of the elastic hook 21 facing the hook slot 11 is set to be a conical surface, the end of the elastic hook 21 facing away from the hook slot 11 is set to be a plane, and the hook slot 11 is set to be an E-shaped structure, the E-shaped structure includes an upper hook slot and a lower hook slot, the elastic hook 21 is located in the upper hook slot of the E-shaped structure during the front-back sliding of the upper tray 10 relative to the lower tray 20, and the elastic hook 21 can slide in the front-back direction in the upper hook slot, after the upper tray 10 slides to a designated position relative to the lower tray 20, the conical surface on the elastic hook 21 pushes the partition between the upper hook slot and the lower hook slot by pressing the upper tray 10 or the lower tray 20, the elastic hook 21 is pushed into the lower hook slot by self-deforming manner, the partition between the upper hook slot and the lower hook slot plays a blocking role on the plane of the elastic hook 21, thereby achieving the purposes of fixing the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 in the front-back direction and reducing the falling-off of the elastic hook 21 from the lower tray.
In addition, the height of the elastic hook 21 and the depth of the hook groove 11 are determined according to the distance between the upper and lower teeth, and the distance between the upper and lower teeth in the natural closed state when the user is in the sleep state, that is, when the elastic hook 21 is clamped into the hook groove 11, the upper tray 10 drives the upper teeth and the lower tray 20 drives the lower teeth to make the upper and lower teeth in the natural closed state, so that the phenomenon that the interval between the upper and lower teeth is too large or the upper and lower teeth are mutually extruded is reduced.
Further, by setting the hook groove 11 to an E-shaped structure including an upper hook groove and a lower hook groove, two vertical selections are provided for the clamping interval between the elastic hook 21 and the hook groove 11, when the elastic hook 21 is clamped in the upper hook groove, the interval between the upper dental tray 10 and the lower dental tray 20 is larger, and when the elastic hook 21 is clamped in the lower hook groove, the interval between the upper dental tray 10 and the lower dental tray 20 is smaller.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, in order to reduce the phenomenon that the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 are dislocated left and right in the process of sliding along the front and rear directions and the phenomenon that the elastic hooks 21 and the hook grooves 11 are not aligned, one of the bottom matching portion and the top matching portion is provided with the guide blocks 22 distributed along the front and rear directions, the other of the bottom matching portion and the top matching portion is provided with the guide groove rails 12 matched with the guide blocks 22, and the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 slide along the front and rear directions under the guidance of the guide blocks 22 and the guide groove rails 12.
Specifically, the guide block 22 may be a rectangular guide column, a cylindrical guide column or an elliptical guide column provided with a convex bottom mating portion or a top mating portion, and the guide rail 12 may be a long strip-shaped groove provided with a convex bottom mating portion or a top mating portion. Since the hook groove 11 can guide the elastic hook 21, in order to improve the guiding matching degree between the hook groove 11 and the guide groove rail 12 and reduce the guiding interference phenomenon between the two, the embodiment of the invention proposes to set the guide groove rail 12 and the hook groove 11 to be in a linear strip structure, that is, the hook groove 11 and the guide groove rail 12 both provide linear guiding tracks along the front-back direction.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, in order to achieve the fixing between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 in the front-rear direction, the embodiment of the present invention proposes that one of the bottom fitting portion and the top fitting portion is provided with a plurality of teeth 23, and the other of the bottom fitting portion and the top fitting portion is provided with a plurality of teeth grooves 13 fitted with the plurality of teeth 23, and the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 are fixed in front-rear by being engaged with each other by the plurality of teeth 23 and the plurality of teeth grooves 13 when the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 are mounted in place.
Specifically, after the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 relatively slide to the designated positions along the front-rear direction, the upper tray 10 or the lower tray 20 is pressed to achieve the purpose of fixing the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 up and down through the cooperation of the elastic hooks 21 and the hook grooves 11, and the upper tray 10 or the lower tray 20 is fixed up and down, and meanwhile, the purpose of fixing the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 up and down is achieved through the cooperation of the plurality of latches 23 and the plurality of slots 13, so that the phenomenon that the upper tray 10 or the lower tray 20 is misplaced back and forth in the using process of the oral appliance snore stopper 100 is reduced.
Further, as shown in fig. 4, one side wall of the bottom mating portion and the top mating portion is provided with a scale 14, the other side wall of the bottom mating portion and the top mating portion is provided with an arrow mark 24, and a plurality of scales on the scale 14 are in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of latches 23. In the process of adjusting the front-rear distance between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20, the front-rear adjusted distance between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 can be read according to the position of the arrow mark 24 pointing to the graduated scale 14, so that the application range and the use comfort of the oral appliance snore stopper 100 are improved.
According to the embodiment of the invention, the strip-shaped protrusions and the guide groove rails 12 are respectively arranged at two sides of the plurality of tooth grooves 13, and the elastic hooks 21 and the guide blocks 22 are respectively arranged at two sides of the plurality of tooth teeth 23.
In the present embodiment, the heights of the plurality of latch grooves 13 are lower than the heights of the elongated protrusions and the guide groove rails 12, and therefore, by disposing the elongated protrusions and the guide groove rails 12 on both sides of the plurality of latch grooves 13, the phenomenon of mutual interference between the elongated protrusions and the guide groove rails 12 can be reduced, and the heights of the plurality of latch teeth 23 are lower than the heights of the elastic hooks 21 and the guide blocks 22, and therefore, by disposing the elastic hooks 21 and the guide blocks 22 on both sides of the plurality of latch teeth 23, the phenomenon of mutual interference between the elastic hooks 21 and the guide blocks 22 can be reduced.
As shown in fig. 5 and 6, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 are each provided with a U-shaped structure, both ends of the upper tray 10 are provided with bottom engaging portions, and both ends of the lower tray 20 are provided with top engaging portions.
In this embodiment, the cooperation between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20 through the cooperation between the two bottom cooperation parts and the two top cooperation parts can improve the cooperation stability between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20, and reduce the phenomenon that one end of the upper tray 10 or the lower tray 20 is warped or separated during the use of the oral appliance snore relieving device 100.
Further, the bottom mating part of the upper tray 10 is provided with an upper dental adjustment structure 15, the backside of the upper tray 10 at the bottom mating part is provided with an upper flexible pad 16, and/or the top mating part of the lower tray 20 is provided with a lower dental adjustment structure 25, and the backside of the lower tray 20 at the top mating part is provided with a lower flexible pad 26.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, one of the bottom mating portion and the top mating portion is provided with a cantilever plate (not shown in the drawings) on which a plurality of latches are provided.
The oral correction snore stopper can improve the smoothness of the front and back sliding of the plurality of clamping teeth 23 relative to the plurality of clamping tooth grooves 13 through the elastic deformation of the cantilever plate. According to the embodiment of the invention, the bending strength and the bending shape of the cantilever plate are optimally designed, so that the adjusting force of the front-back movement of the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray is about 15N, the strength is moderate, the connecting strength is reliable, the normal use of the oral appliance snore stopper can be met, and the oral appliance snore stopper is simple, convenient and very reliable to adjust in the whole use process.
In addition, the cantilever plates in the embodiment of the invention are distributed along the front-rear direction, one end of each cantilever plate is fixed on the bottom matching part or the top matching part, the other end of each cantilever plate is suspended, and the plurality of latches are arranged on the other end of each cantilever plate which is suspended, so that the plurality of latches have movable spaces along the up-down direction, and the sliding resistance in the relative sliding process between the plurality of latches 23 and the plurality of latch grooves 21 is reduced.
As shown in fig. 14 to 16, the second aspect of the present invention further provides a grip 200 of the oral appliance snore stopper 100, the grip 200 being used to operate the oral appliance snore stopper 100 provided according to the first aspect of the present invention, the distal end of the grip 200 being provided with a pry tab 220 inserted into a gap between the upper tray 10 and the lower tray 20, and the proximal end of the grip 200 being provided with a radially extending operating tab 230.
As shown in fig. 10 to 13, the adjusting process of the oral appliance snore stopper 100 is described in detail below, the upper and lower dental brackets slide to the target scale indication position of the scale 14 back and forth through the guide block 22 and the guide groove rail 12, then the latch teeth 23 and the latch grooves 13 on the upper and lower dental brackets are meshed by pressing the upper and lower dental brackets, and finally the fastening is realized through the elastic hooks 21 and the hook grooves 11 on both sides, so that the front and back adjusting function of the oral appliance snore stopper 100 is realized, and the upper and lower dental brackets 20 are fixed by utilizing the cooperation of the elastic hooks 21 and the hook grooves 11 and the cooperation of the guide block 22 and the guide groove rail 12, and the fixing of the upper and lower dental brackets 20 in two directions, namely, the upper and lower directions and the left and right directions, and the fixing of three rotation postures are completed. The front and back adjustment is realized through the up and down pressing mode of the latch 23 and the latch groove 13, the adjustment precision is 1mm which is one tooth space, and the final locking purpose is realized through up and down pressing.
The upper tray 10, lower tray 20 and grip 200 are individually described below by preferred embodiments of the present invention:
as shown in fig. 1, the upper dental tray 10 is formed by secondarily wrapping EVA soft rubber on the basis of the upper dental tray 10, a plurality of tooth clamping grooves 13, guide groove rails 12 and hook grooves 11 are respectively arranged on the left side and the right side of the upper dental tray 10, scale marks 14 with scale marks of 0-8mm are respectively arranged on the left side and the right side of the upper dental tray 10, and the tooth clamping grooves 13, the guide groove rails 12 and the hook grooves 11 on the upper dental tray 10 are matched with the lower dental tray 20 for use so as to adjust the interval between the upper dental tray 20 and the lower dental tray 20.
As shown in fig. 2, the lower tray 20 is formed by secondarily wrapping EVA soft rubber on the basis of the lower tray 20, a plurality of teeth 23, guide blocks 22 and elastic hooks 21 are respectively arranged on the left side and the right side of the lower tray 20, arrow marks 24 matched with the graduated scale 14 are respectively arranged on the two sides of the lower tray 20, and the plurality of teeth 23, the guide blocks 22 and the elastic hooks 21 on the lower tray 20 are matched with the upper tray 10 for use, so that the space between the upper tray 20 and the lower tray 20 is adjusted.
As shown in fig. 14, the handle 200 is used for separating the upper and lower dental trays 20 by pressing the elastic hooks 21 on the upper and lower dental trays 20 by the prying pieces 220 on both sides of the operating rod 210, and the handle 200 can also be used for installing the oral appliance snore stopper 100, so as to realize the extension effect of the handle of the oral appliance snore stopper 100 and prevent the hand scalding during shaping of EVA soft rubber.
Specifically, in the process of installing the oral appliance snore stopper 100, the upper tray 10 is firstly put into the hand, then the guide blocks 22 on the lower tray 20 are put into the guide groove rails 12 of the upper tray 10, at this time, the lower tray 20 can be easily slid to adjust the front-rear distance, the target position is determined by observing the alignment condition of the arrow marks 24 on the lower tray 20 and the scale mark marks on the upper tray 10 on both sides, then the upper tray 20 and the lower tray 20 are forcibly pressed down, so that the upper tray and the lower tray are guided by the guide blocks 22 in advance, the final guide is completed by the engagement of the clamping teeth 23 of the upper tray and the lower tray 20 and the clamping grooves 13, and the up-down buckling action of the upper tray and the lower tray 20 is completed at the same time, so that the adjustment and the installation fixation of the front-rear position of the upper tray and the lower tray 20 are finally realized.
According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the guide groove rail 12, the clamping teeth 23 and the elastic clamping hooks 21 of the upper and lower dental brackets 20 are optimally designed, so that the front and back sliding adjustment of the upper and lower dental brackets is very convenient and smooth, the up and down pressing force is about 15N, the bending buckling of the elastic clamping hooks 21 can be realized, the strength is moderate, the connection strength is reliable, the normal use of the oral correction snore relieving device 100 can be met, and the adjustment in the whole use process is simple, convenient and very reliable.
The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily understood by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are intended to be included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.
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1. An oral appliance snore stopper, characterized in that the oral appliance snore stopper comprises:
the bottom of the upper dental tray is provided with a bottom matching part;
a lower dental tray, the top of the lower dental tray is provided with a top matching part matched with the bottom matching part,
one of the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with an elastic clamping hook which extends up and down, the other one of the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with a hook groove matched with the elastic clamping hook, and the elastic clamping hook is clamped into the hook groove in a squeezing deformation mode under the condition that the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray are installed in place up and down;
the elastic clamping hook comprises an elastic clamping hook, a hook groove and a lower clamping hook, wherein the hook groove is arranged in an E-shaped structure, the E-shaped structure comprises an upper hook groove and a lower hook groove, a partition plate is arranged between the upper hook groove and the lower hook groove, and one side of the elastic clamping hook, which faces the hook groove, is provided with a conical surface; the other of the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with strip-shaped protrusions distributed along the front-back direction, and the hook groove is a strip-shaped groove arranged on the side wall of the strip-shaped protrusion;
one of the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with guide blocks distributed along the front-back direction, the other one of the bottom matching part and the top matching part is provided with a guide groove rail matched with the guide blocks, the guide groove rail is a strip-shaped groove, and the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray relatively slide front and back under the guidance of the guide blocks and the guide groove rail;
one of the bottom fitting part and the top fitting part is provided with a plurality of clamping teeth, the other one of the bottom fitting part and the top fitting part is provided with a plurality of clamping tooth grooves matched with the plurality of clamping teeth, and the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray are fixed in a front-back manner through the plurality of clamping teeth and the plurality of clamping tooth grooves when the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray are installed in place;
the strip-shaped protrusions and the guide groove rails are respectively arranged on two sides of the plurality of tooth clamping grooves, and the elastic clamping hooks and the guide blocks are respectively arranged on two sides of the plurality of tooth clamping grooves;
the elastic clamping hook slides in the front-back direction in the upper hook groove, after the upper dental tray slides to a designated position relative to the lower dental tray, the conical surface of the elastic clamping hook pushes the partition plate between the upper hook groove and the lower hook groove in a manner of pressing the upper dental tray or the lower dental tray, and the elastic clamping hook is extruded into the lower hook groove from the upper hook groove;
when the elastic clamping hooks are positioned in the lower hook grooves, the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray achieve the purpose of front-back fixation through the cooperation of the clamping teeth and the clamping tooth grooves.
2. The oral appliance snore stopper of claim 1, wherein one of the side walls of the bottom mating portion and the top mating portion is provided with a scale, the other of the side walls of the bottom mating portion and the top mating portion is provided with an arrow mark, and a plurality of scales on the scale are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of latches.
3. The oral appliance snore stopper of claim 1, wherein one of the bottom mating portion and the top mating portion is provided with a cantilever plate, the plurality of latches being disposed on the cantilever plate.
4. The oral appliance snore stopper of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the upper tray and the lower tray are each provided with a U-shaped structure, both ends of the upper tray are each provided with the bottom mating portion, and both ends of the lower tray are each provided with the top mating portion.
5. A handle of an oral appliance snore stopper, characterized in that the handle is used for operating the oral appliance snore stopper according to any one of claims 1 to 4, a distal end of the handle is provided with a pry tab inserted into a gap between the upper dental tray and the lower dental tray, and a proximal end of the handle is provided with an operation tab extending in a radial direction.
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