Mask headgear

The headgear addresses fit and comfort issues by using a rigidizer and elastic design, ensuring a wide range of patients can use it comfortably without complex adjustments and facial marks.

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Patent Information

Application Number
JP2024172439
Authority / Receiving Office
JP · JP
Patent Type
Patents
Current Assignee / Owner
Priority Date
2009-09-04
Filing Date
2024-10-01
Publication Date
2026-07-13
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

AI Technical Summary

Technical Problem

Conventional headgear for treating sleep-disordered breathing often fails to fit a wide range of patients, requires complex adjustments, and leaves marks on the face due to cumbersome design.

Method used

A headgear with a rigid or semi-rigid material, including a rigidizer extending over the parietal and zygomatic bones, and elastic side portions, designed for easy use and manufacturing, minimizing face contact, and reducing marks.

Benefits of technology

The headgear provides a comfortable, one-size-fits-most solution with minimal adjustments, maintaining mask position and reducing facial marks, while being cost-effective and easy to manufacture.

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Abstract

To provide a headgear which makes it possible that one predetermined size of headgear fits a wide range of patients, eliminating the need to make a large number of adjustments to the headgear to achieve a fit, and which leaves no facial marks in use, and also to provide a cost-reduced method of manufacturing headgears for respiratory masks.SOLUTION: Provided is a headgear for use with a mask comprising a rigidizer 660; a conformable material; and at least one fabric, wherein edges of the at least one fabric are sealed by at least one joint so that the rigidizer, the conformable material, and the at least one joint are encapsulated by the at least one fabric over at least a portion of the headgear.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
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