Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mouth opening training device
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Application No.: US14654130Application Date: 2013-12-18
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Publication No.: US10086228B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshitake
- Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNVIERSITY
- Current Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNVIERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: JP2012-277456 20121219
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/083855 WO 20131218
- International Announcement: WO2014/098113 WO 20140626
- Main IPC: A63B23/03
- IPC: A63B23/03 ; A61H1/02

Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a mouth-opening training device with which continuous rotational movement and anterior sliding movement of the temporomandibular joint can be performed smoothly, the device thereby being capable of guiding the movement of the mandible so as to trace an actual mandibular mouth-opening movement. The mouth-opening training device is provided with: an upper member, the base end of which is grasped and the tip of which can engage with a user's maxilla; a lower member, the tip of which can engage with the user's mandible and a portion of which is in contact with the upper member so as to allow sliding; and a connecting section for connecting the upper member to the lower member so as to allow sliding and allow opening and closing. As the tip of the upper member is opened with respect to the tip of the lower member, the lower member moves in the direction of the tip.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150314163A1 MOUTH-OPENING TRAINING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-11-05
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