Title:
NASAL DEVICES INCLUDING DILATION AND USER COMMUNICATION AND METHODS OF USING SAME
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003057304
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The present invention teaches, enables, illustrates, describes and claims new, useful and non-obvious apparatus and methods of providing dilation to external tissue and user communication via a nasal device (10). The present invention builds upon prior commercial embodiments of tissue dilator devices and addresses several still unmet needs in the art. In particular, without limitation, one embodiment according to the present invention comprises a flexible strip of material (12) adapted to be adhesively secured to nasal surfaces (16) of a user (18), and a signal unit which receives physiological signals of the user (18).
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Inventors:
FENTON GUSTAV R (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2002/041505
Publication Date:
January 20, 2005
Filing Date:
December 27, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
CNS INC (US)
FENTON GUSTAV R (US)
FENTON GUSTAV R (US)
International Classes:
A61F5/56; A61F2/82; A61F5/08; A61F5/10; A61M29/00; (IPC1-7): A61M29/00
Foreign References:
| US5706800A | 1998-01-13 | |||
| US5611333A | 1997-03-18 |
Other References:
See also references of EP 1515774A4
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