Patents Examined by Michael Tsai
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Patent number: 10124138Abstract: A sealing interface forms part of an apparatus for supplying a flow of respiratory gases to a user. The sealing interface comprises a foam or gel inner cushion and a thin resilient rubber outer sheath. A face side of the inner cushion resiliently supports the outer sheath. The inner cushion has a toothed profile formed on the face side of the inner cushion. The toothed profile consists of at least one tooth having an apex on the perimeter of the inner cushion. The apex is positioned between two valleys in the perimeter of the inner cushion. In use the apex of each tooth of the toothed profile is in supporting contact with the outer sheath.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Alastair Edwin McAuley, Mark McLaren, Wen Dong Huang
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Patent number: 10123928Abstract: An apparatus for musculoskeletal stimulation allows independent electronic control of vibration parameters and overall biasing force so that an optimum combination of these parameters may be obtained regardless of the user's weight and without the need for adjustment of mechanical weights or springs.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: WISYS TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey M. Leismer, Nadder D. Sahar
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Patent number: 10124165Abstract: A hand-held device for electrically powered skin treatment is disclosed. Current is passed into the skin from an external electric circuit via an electrode so that active ingredients of a cream applied earlier to the skin can better penetrate into the skin. To aid this effect, a cap of the device, which functions as an electrode, is provided with a vibrator so that the electrode vibrates on the skin, thus working the cream into the skin.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Swiss Spa System Ltd.Inventors: Bruno Gimelli, James N. Doyle, Jr.
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Patent number: 10123937Abstract: Methods and systems for providing pain therapy by utilizing cold/heat-assisted distributed vibration therapy. The pain therapy device includes a plurality of vibration motors that are located along a grid. The device is portable and can be adaptable to the body part requiring pain therapy.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Perumala CorporationInventors: Madhavan Pisharodi, Dinesh Rabindran
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Patent number: 10124127Abstract: A wearable wrist inhaler includes a wristband having a first end and a second end configured for wear about a user's wrist. An inhaler unit is removably coupled to the wristband displaced from the first end and the second end, the inhaler unit including a housing having a plurality of walls defining an interior area and an outlet port in communication with the interior area. A watch assembly is positioned atop the housing of the inhaler unit, the watch assembly energized by a battery and includes a display configured to indicate a time of day. A dosage chamber including a medicament is positioned in the interior area of the housing. A dispensing assembly is communication with the inhaler medicament that is configured to dispense an individual portion of the medicament via the outlet port upon demand by a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Inventor: Kendra Baldwin
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Patent number: 10117804Abstract: A CPR chest compression machine includes a retention structure configured to retain a patient's body, and a compression mechanism configured to perform automatically CPR compressions to the patient's chest. The CPR machine also includes a camera coupled to the retention structure or to the compression mechanism. The camera has a field of view that spans at least a certain portion of the patient's body, and is configured to acquire an image of what is spanned by its field of view. The image may be stored in a memory, displayed, transmitted, analyzed to diagnose the patient, detect shifting of the patient within the CPR machine, etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Inventors: Anders Nilsson, Jonas Lagerstrom, Bo Mellberg, Anders Jeppsson, Marcus Ehrstedt, Bjarne Madsen Hardig, Fredrik Arnwald, Erik von Schenck, Paul Rasmusson, Sara Lindroth, Gregory T. Kavounas
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Patent number: 10098811Abstract: The present invention administers fluid therapy and chromotherapy to the head of a user for stimulatory purposes. Particularly, the invention comprises a portable device for administering fluid therapy using pressurized water and/or other therapeutic fluids and/or substances to massage and relax the head and scalp of the user while simultaneously allowing the use of craniofacial chromotherapy thus providing a generally relaxing and refreshing stimulative experience for the head.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Inventor: Mauro Jaguan
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Patent number: 10098808Abstract: An end effector is capable of being used to stimulate a portion of skin at a stimulation frequency. The end effector includes a base portion that is couplable to a motor and an end portion having a plurality of contact points at which the end effector is configured to contact the portion of skin. The plurality of contact points are located at a target distance from each other that is based on an inverse of the stimulation frequency. The end effector is configured such that, when the base portion is coupled to the motor and the motor is operating, the end effector has a resonant frequency based on the stimulation frequency. When the motor is operating and a force is applied to bias the end effector toward the portion of skin, a cyclical stimulus is produced within the portion of skin at about the stimulation frequency.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Aaron David Poole, Gerald Keith Brewer, Elisa Caberlotto, Zane Bowman Allen Miller
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Patent number: 10092478Abstract: A complexion and neck treatment band (CNTB) for a user, by which compound mechanical stimulation is applied to the skin of the face and surrounding skin patches. The band fits around the head of the user, forming a tight fit with the skin of the complexion and possibly neck. The user can apply generalized stretch, and using special stretch lobes also apply localized stretch.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Inventor: Noah Amit
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Patent number: 10080851Abstract: A dose unit including at least one isolated bioactive agent applied on a carrier material in thermal contact with an electrically heating element configured to vaporize a pre-determined amount of the agent for pulmonary delivery thereof is provided herein, as well as devices for effecting vaporization and pulmonary delivery of the isolated agent, and methods for preparing the dose unit, controllably releasing the agent therefrom, methods for pulmonary delivery thereof and methods of treatment of medical conditions treatable by pulmonary delivery of the isolated bioactive agent.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Syqe Medical Ltd.Inventors: Perry Davidson, Aaron Schorr, Asaf Kroll, Binyamin Schwartz
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Patent number: 10071017Abstract: A chest compression monitor for measuring the depth of chest compressions achieved during CPR. A sensor of the chest compression monitor is disposed within its housing such that compression of the housing due to CPR compressions, and its resultant deformation, is detected by the sensor and used by the control system as the starting point for calculating chest compression depth based on an acceleration signal indicative of the downward displacement of the chest.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: ZOLL Medical CorporationInventors: Gideon D. H. Butler, Gary A. Freeman
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Patent number: 10064778Abstract: A walking assistance device may include at least one walking assistance unit configured to assist a user in walking; and/or a controller configured to control, based on a walk pattern of the user, the at least one walking assistance unit to produce torque only in at least one assistance period needing walking assistance in a walk cycle. A method of controlling walking assistance may include: calculating a walking assistance time using a difference between a start time and a termination time of an assistance period needing the walking assistance in a walk pattern; and/or assisting a user in walking when the assistance period begins, by producing torque for the walking assistance time.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung-Won Moon, Ji Young Kim, Young-Bo Shim, Bok Man Lim
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Patent number: 10058475Abstract: An intermittent pneumatic compression system provides exhaust between a wrap and patient's leg, avoids tubes and is operable on a conventional battery. The system allows true portability while improving patient discomfort, reducing fall risks, and providing desired therapeutic and prophylactic compression.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Innovamed Health, LLCInventors: Turner Lucas Zeutzius, Wade R. Williams, Joseph Zeutzius
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Patent number: 10046184Abstract: A self-contained breathing device for use in fighting fires comprising a hood for covering a wearer's head, a membrane for sealing the hood to create a breathing chamber inside the hood, and a source of oxygen disposed inside the hood. The source of oxygen is connected to the user by a conduit inside of the hood, and another conduit directs user-exhaled carbon dioxide to the source of oxygen. The breathing device includes a visual indicator inside of the hood that reacts to the presence of a gas within the hood and provides visual feedback to the user based on a quantity of the gas present in the hood.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Elliott, Girish Kshirsagar, Wayne Noehren, Chip Kuper
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Patent number: 10046128Abstract: An apparatus for treating sleep disordered breathing may include: a flow generator to deliver a supply of air at positive pressure to a patient; a user interface, the user interface comprising: a display configured to display a plurality of screens; and a set of controls; and a controller in communication with the user interface and configured to control operation of the flow generator, wherein the flow generator is configured to couple with at least one accessory device and during a first mode of operation of the flow generator the controller determines a first screen of the plurality of screens to display on the display based on the at least one accessory device, the first screen of the plurality of screens being configured to enable adjustment of one or more parameters related to the operation of the at least one accessory device or the flow generator using the set of controls.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ResMed LimitedInventors: Phoebe Katherine Hill, Mark Bertinetti, Rohan Neil Primrose, Heike Thiele, Alexander Virr, Andrew Mikael Price, Sandra Robyn Curtis, Andrew Roderick Bath
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Patent number: 10039689Abstract: A device for massaging either a human hand or a human foot includes a number of massage elements formed on a plate that is moved within a carriage adjacently below an opening in a housing. The sole of the foot or the palm of the hand is held in contact with the massage elements or in contact with a flexible sheet extending within the opening by an enclosure. In one version, separate enclosures are provided for the hand and for the foot; in another version, the enclosure is adjustable for use with either a hand or a foot.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2012Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Inventor: Zoya Hajianpour
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Patent number: 10028879Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for automatically lengthening a calf muscle in order to relax fatigue and tension of a calf muscle of a worker who works standing up for a long time or a woman wearing high heels. Accordingly, a calf muscle can be naturally relaxed itself by lengthening a length of the calf muscle that is tense by a repetitive and continuous damage, so that it is possible to reduce a chronic muscle unbalance and a muscular pain of a worker who works standing up for a long time or a young woman wearing high heels and it is possible to improve quality of life and work efficiency in an industrial site.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: INJE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventor: Hyun-Dong Kim
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Patent number: 10016335Abstract: A device and method coupled to a therapy garment to apply pressure and repetitive compression forces to a body of a person has a positive air pulse generator and a user programmable time, frequency and pressure controller operable to regulate the duration of operation, frequency of the air pulses and a selected air pressure applied to the body of a person. The air pulse generator has rigid displacers that are angularly moved with power transmission assemblies to draw air into the air pulse generator and discharge air pressure pulses to the therapy garment.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Electromed, Inc.Inventors: Craig N. Hansen, Paul C. Cross
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Patent number: 10004626Abstract: A neck movement support device includes a stationary member, a movable member connected to the stationary member and rotatable relative thereto about an anteroposterior neck movement axis, a yoke extending away from the movable member and rotatable therewith about the anteroposterior neck movement axis, a handle connected to the yoke and rotatable relative thereto about a mediolateral neck movement axis, and a head hardness connected to the handle and rotatable relative thereto about a craniocaudal neck movement axis. A head of a user is securable to the head hardness, so as to constrain the head to move or remain stationary along with the head hardness about the anteroposterior, mediolateral and craniocaudal neck movement axes.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Inventor: Joseph P. Stine
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Patent number: 9993601Abstract: Disclosed is an inhaler and a method for using the inhaler for the inhalation of a formulation from a carrier. The carrier contains the formulation in a receptacle and is set oscillating by an air current. An improved or defined delivery and nebulisation of the preferably powdered formulation is made possible by the fact that the carrier is set oscillating in defined manner, the formulation is dispensed through a cover element having three to five holes and/or the air current flows onto a fin associated with the carrier and flows past at least substantially only one flat side of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbHInventors: Andree Jung, Stephen Terence Dunne