Flexible Anti-Snoring Harness With Tapered Insert

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing anti-snoring devices often restrict motion and cause discomfort during sleep due to their design, limiting the range of sleeping positions and not completely eliminating snoring.

Innovation Solution

An anti-snoring device with a flexible harness and a laterally tapering insert that conforms to the neck, featuring a base portion with a central recess and curved surfaces for improved stability and comfort, allowing a wider range of sleeping positions while maintaining the airways open.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional anti-snoring devices are used to maintain head and jaw position, then snoring is reduced, but motion is restricted and comfort is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesnoring reductionVSAvoidmotion restriction

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a flexible harness made from elastic material that conforms to the user's neck and chest contours. This flexible construction allows the device to maintain anti-snoring functionality through proper positioning while accommodating natural body movements and various sleeping positions without restricting motion

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The insert features a laterally tapering shape with a wider base portion at the bottom and a narrower top portion. This geometric parameter change optimizes both the anti-snoring effect through proper jaw positioning and the comfort by reducing lateral protrusion that would interfere with sleeping positions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If conventional anti-snoring devices are used to maintain airway openness, then snoring is reduced, but the device is pushed out of position during sleep

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveairway maintenanceVSAvoiddevice positioning

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The base portion of the insert is designed with a curved surface that conforms to the natural contours of the neck and chest. This curvature allows the device to nestle into anatomical recesses, particularly the suprasternal notch, providing stable positioning that prevents the device from being pushed out during sleep while maintaining airway openness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

3Reliability

If conventional anti-snoring devices are used, then snoring is reduced, but comfort is compromised due to lateral protrusion

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesnoring reductionVSAvoidcomfort

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The insert employs asymmetric geometry with a laterally tapering shape where the base portion extends further laterally than the upper portions. This asymmetric design provides sufficient lateral coverage at the critical base area for anti-snoring functionality while minimizing lateral protrusion at the upper areas that would cause discomfort and interfere with sleeping positions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

Data Source

PatentEP3852696B1Anti-snoring device

Publication Date: 2023.07.26 SLEEPTIGHT AB

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AI summary

Anti-snoring device (1) for attachment to the neck of a user, said anti snoring device comprises: - a harness (10) made out of a flexible material, said harness (10) comprising a retaining portion (11), - an insert (20) configured to be arranged in the retaining portion (11) of the harness (10), wherein said insert (20) comprises a base portion (21) configured to face the neck of the user.