KR20100119249A

KR20100119249A - A pillow for a snorer

Info

Publication number: KR20100119249A
Application number: KR1020090038265A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 정호훈
Original assignee: 정호훈
Priority date: 2009-04-30
Filing date: 2009-04-30
Publication date: 2010-11-09

Abstract

The present invention relates to a snoring pillow, and more particularly, the opening 102 is formed by opening the front ".

"Configuration in the form having a body 100, while a plurality of airbags 130 are formed therein, a sensor 140 for detecting the position of the head and whether the nose is installed is installed to wrap around the neck When snoring during sleep by injecting air into the airbag 130 is characterized in that it is configured to prevent the snoring by changing the position of the head,

The pillow wraps around the neck to effectively support the head, restrains the face from falling unconsciously at bedtime, and conveniently changes the posture to prevent snoring in any position of the head. Can be. In addition, the vibration sensor and the voice sensor detect the snoring at the same time to more accurately detect the malfunction caused by the surrounding environment, and the oxygen saturation monitoring sensor can check the breathing state at bedtime because the simple snoring Along with snoring pillows have the effect of preventing sleep apnea.

Description

Snoring Pillow {A pillow for a snorer}

The present invention relates to a snoring pillow, and more particularly, to a snoring pillow to prevent snoring by changing the position of the head when snoring.

Snoring refers to vibrations that occur as air passes quickly through the upper airway narrowed during sleep, namely the nose, the back of the palate, called the soft palate, the neck, and the tongue, and when the upper airway becomes narrower or blocked, It is likely to be accompanied by apnea, which can be interpreted as a warning of some kind of health warning. In addition, loud and unpleasant sounds cause discomfort to people around them, and about 50% of the adult population in Korea suffer from chronic snoring.

Such snoring can cause symptoms such as daytime drowsiness, decreased concentration, memory loss, headache, chronic fatigue, changes in personality or emotions, nocturnal enuresis, and if left untreated, high blood pressure, angina, arrhythmia, heart failure, stroke, In addition to serious complications such as decreased sexual function, chronic bronchitis, and diabetes, secondary accidents such as traffic accidents and safety accidents due to drowsiness are increased.

The treatment of snoring is divided into natural treatment and medical treatment. Natural treatment is treatment through weight control, and medical treatment includes positive pressure respiratory treatment, intraoral device treatment, and surgical treatment.

Looking more closely at the treatments above,

First, weight control therapy is a method of losing weight through regular exercise and diet, which can be a great effect if successful, but the probability of success is due to the slow willpower and effectiveness of the patient's weight loss. There was this low issue.

Second, positive pressure respiratory therapy is to wear a mask-type oxygen inhaler so that the airway is open during sleep and to sleep, by supplying air to the nose to help breathe smoothly to prevent snoring. .

However, this method has a problem that it takes a long time to disturb or adapt to sleep because it is necessary to wear a mask when going to bed, it was difficult to utilize the general public because it must be equipped with an expensive breathing device.

Third, the intraoral device treatment method is a method of biting the device to fit the oral cavity in the mouth, while reducing the cost compared to surgical treatment, positive pressure respiratory therapy, etc., has the advantage of having a high therapeutic effect and satisfaction.

However, the above method may cause discomfort because the device must be kept in the mouth during bedtime, and may cause side effects such as toothache, drooling, dry mouth, headache, and jaw joint abnormalities.

Finally, surgical treatment is a method for widening the airways by tightening or removing the throat, or nasal and throat tissues, and is only available to patients with severe snoring. There was a problem that there was.

In addition, there is a posture treatment as a treatment that has been in the spotlight recently.

Posture therapy is a method of keeping the body lying on the side at 30 degrees and going to bed. However, this method requires the patient to maintain the angle of the body consciously, it is difficult to maintain the same angle due to unconscious struggle during bedtime. That is, although there is a cushion that can be worn on the shoulder to maintain a constant body angle at bedtime, the patient's unconscious struggle can not be fundamentally prevented, but rather it may cause inconvenience such as cutting at bedtime.

Therefore, the above-mentioned problem can be solved, and the snoring pillow is widely used as having a high expectation effect. Snoring pillow is a device that can detect the user's snoring and stop the snoring by moving the face by adjusting the upper and lower or left and right height of the pillow.

Snoring pillows with these characteristics require less cost than conventional treatment methods and can be utilized regardless of the existing bedtime habits, which has the advantage of minimizing user's discomfort and discomfort.

However, the snoring pillow developed so far may malfunction because the sensor that recognizes snoring cannot distinguish other people's snoring and surrounding noise, and it is made uniformly without considering individual sleeping tendency, so it is inconvenient for users. Could have had. In addition, the user's face can be expected to be effective when placed on the pillow, but when the face is separated from the pillow due to struggle during bedtime, there is a problem that becomes useless.

There is an increasing need for a device that can be conveniently and conveniently used to prevent snoring more effectively.

The present invention is to prevent the snoring effectively, to detect the user's snoring through the sensor and to operate the plurality of airbags provided inside the pillow to adjust the height of the pillow to change the position of the head It is possible to stop snoring by zooming, and it can prevent malfunction by detecting detailed snoring of the sensor.It prevents the face from falling out of the pillow by making it as close to the user as possible, and operates according to the user's sleeping tendency. The goal is to get a snoring pillow that can be used without feelings of rejection.

According to the snoring pillow of the present invention,

The pillow wraps around the neck to effectively support the head, restrains the face from falling unconsciously at bedtime, and conveniently changes the posture to prevent snoring in any position of the head. Can be. In addition, the vibration sensor and the voice sensor detect the snoring at the same time to more accurately detect the malfunction caused by the surrounding environment, and the oxygen saturation monitoring sensor allows you to check the breathing state at bedtime. It also has the effect of preventing sleep apnea.

In the present invention, in order to effectively prevent the snoring is formed by opening the front opening "

"The configuration has a body, a plurality of airbags are formed inside, while the sensor is installed to detect the position of the head and whether the nose is snoring,

Snoring neck wear Snoring during sleep proposes a snoring pillow characterized in that it is configured to prevent the snoring by changing the position of the head by injecting air into the airbag.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5.

1 is an exploded perspective view showing a detailed configuration of the snoring pillow according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a plan view showing the internal configuration of the snoring pillow according to the present invention.

The snoring pillow according to the present invention has an opening 102 formed in the front (bottom in the drawing) so that the shape of the body 100 is "

It is configured in the form of ". As it is configured in the form as described above it will be able to maintain a comfortable state by supporting the entire head evenly while wrapping the neck.

The body 100 may be formed using various materials. In the present invention, the outer shell 110 is filled with a cushion 120 of fluffy paper such as sponge or cotton is an example. The material of the outer shell 110 and the cushion 120 can be formed using a variety of known materials as necessary.

A plurality of airbags 130 are formed inside the body 100. The airbag 130 is provided separately and installed to the left and right sides (left and right sides of the figure) and the rear (upper side of the figure) of the body 100, respectively. The material is formed by selecting a good expandability such as rubber in order to expand and expand as the air is injected. The airbag 130 formed as described above is expanded by receiving air from the pump 210 controlled by the external controller 200. When retracted, the pump 210 can be configured to draw out air by operating in the reverse direction.

And the body 100 is installed with a sensor 140 for detecting whether the position of the head and snoring. The sensor 140 may be provided with a pressure sensor 142 for detecting a pressure, a sound sensor 144 for detecting a sound, and a vibration sensor 146 for detecting a vibration, each of which is provided at a suitable position. . On the other hand, in addition to the oxygen saturation monitoring sensor (not shown) to determine the state of sleep breathing may be installed on the user's finger may receive this signal through a wire or the like.

The pressure sensor 142 is installed at the point where the airbag 130 is formed to detect the pressure to determine where the current position of the head is located, the sound sensor 144 and the vibration sensor 146 is nose It detects the sound and vibration that occur when a bone is being snoreed. In particular, by detecting both the sound and vibration to determine whether the nose is snoring, it is possible to more accurately detect the snoring state.

The signal detected by the sensor 40 is transmitted to the control unit 200, and the control unit 200 collects each signal to determine whether the current head position is located in the body 100 and whether the nose is snoring. Recognizing whether the hypoxic state detected by the oxygen saturation monitoring sensor is a sleep apnea state, and then sends a signal to the pump 210 to change the position of the head by injecting or extracting air to the airbag 130.

The snoring pillow body 100 according to the present invention formed as described above can further form the auxiliary support portion 150 on the left and right sides. The airbag 130 is also installed in the auxiliary supporting unit 150, thereby enabling the head to be supported by a wider surface, thereby allowing the user to change the position of the head more effectively while taking a stable sleep.

In addition, the opening 102 formed in the body 100 may form a binding strap 160. The tie strap 160 is extended from both ends and bound by, for example, a velcro belt or a clip. According to this configuration, the body 100 is worn by wearing the body 100 on the neck and then binding the tie strap 160 to the body 100. Bar is prevented from being separated from the neck, even if the body is badly turned over in the process of taking the sleep is not to leave the body 100 from the neck. Therefore, the pillow according to the present invention can sleep during the sleeping time.

Hereinafter, look at the operation of the snoring pillow according to the present invention as described above.

3 to 5 is an exemplary view showing a state of use of the snoring pillow according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the body 100 is laid comfortably in the normal position while wearing the neck, the airbag 130 and the pressure sensor 142 formed at the rear of the body 100 are pressed against the head. to be. Therefore, the controller 200 receives the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor 142 as a signal to determine where the head is currently located.

At this time, if the user wants to be bound by pulling the binding straps 160 formed on the body 100 slightly, even if the body is badly flipped during sleep, the body 100 may not fall out of the neck.

When snoring in the above state, sound and vibration are generated. The sound and vibration generated as described above are detected by the sound sensor 144 and the vibration sensor 146 and sent to the controller 200. The controller 200 receives the signal to operate the pump 210 to change the position of the head to supply air to the airbag 130 at the point where the pressure sensor 142 detects.

At this time, the supply of air is supplied little by little, but supplying a certain amount in the first step, even if you move your head a little, if you stop snoring, the supply of air is stopped, and even if the snoring does not stop at step 2 Or continue to step 3 to supply more volume to vary the degree of head movement. This air supply system is configured to prevent the head from moving rapidly as the air is suddenly supplied rapidly.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, when the head is located at the left or right side of the body 100, the airbag 130 and the pressure sensor 142 formed at the left or right side of the body 100 are pressed against the head. It is in a state. Therefore, the controller 200 receives the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor 142 as a signal to determine where the head is currently located. At this time, if the position of the head is pressed together with the auxiliary support 150, the airbag 130 and the pressure sensor 142 installed in the portion will also be in a pressed state.

When snoring in the above state, sound and vibration are generated as described above. The sound and vibration generated in this way is detected by the sound sensor 144 and the vibration sensor 146 and sent to the controller 200, the controller 200 receives the signal to the pump 210 to change the position of the head It operates to supply air to the airbag 130 at the point where the pressure sensor 142 is to change the position of the head.

On the other hand, even when the oxygen saturation monitoring sensor detects a sleep apnea state by changing the position of the head by supplying air to the airbag 130 in the same manner as described above.

As described above, if snoring or sleep apnea occurs, it is properly and accurately sensed and supplied to the airbag 130 to change the position of the head to prevent snoring or sleep apnea.

1 is an exploded perspective view showing a detailed configuration of a snoring pillow according to the present invention,

Figure 2 is a plan view showing the internal configuration of the snoring pillow according to the present invention,

100: body, 102: opening,

110: sheath, 120: cushion,

130: airbag, 140: sensor,

142: pressure sensor, 144: sound sensor,

146: vibration sensor, 150: auxiliary support,

160: tie string, 200: controller,

210: pump.

Claims

The opening 102 is opened to form the "

"Configuration in the form having a body 100, while a plurality of airbags 130 are formed therein, a sensor 140 is installed to detect whether the position of the head and snores,

Snoring neck pillow when snoring during sleep by injecting air into the airbag (130) by changing the position of the head to prevent snoring pillow, characterized in that configured to give.

According to claim 1,

The airbag 130 is a snoring pillow, characterized in that installed in the left, right and rear of the body 100, respectively.

According to claim 1,

The sensor 140 includes a pressure sensor 142 for detecting pressure, a sound sensor 144 for detecting sound, and a vibration sensor 146 for detecting vibration,

Snoring pillow, characterized in that the pressure sensor 142 to detect the position of the head, and whether to snore with the sound sensor 144 and the vibration sensor 146.

The method of claim 3,

The sensor 140 is snoring pillow, characterized in that configured to further monitor the sleep apnea state by including an oxygen saturation monitoring sensor.

According to claim 1,

Snoring pillow, characterized in that the auxiliary support unit 150 is further formed on the left and right sides of the body 100 is installed.

According to claim 1,

The snoring pillow, characterized in that the binding strap 160 is formed in the opening 102 is configured to prevent the body 100 is separated from the neck.