Patent ID: 9554938
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. An anti-snoring device adapted for insertion into an oral mouth cavity of a person, comprising: a mouthpiece adapted to extend inward into the mouth cavity from teeth of the person and including at least one through-hole for ventilation of the mouth cavity during breathing; and means for counteracting snoring including a displacement member which is shaped, sized and adapted for placement within the mouth cavity which is adapted to contacts a central bottom surface of a tongue of the person and is adapted to contact musculature of the person at the bottom of the mouth cavity, the displacement member including a surface, adapted to be positioned in the mouth cavity, that lifts the central bottom surface of the tongue upward toward a palate of the mouth cavity to counteract snoring, the surface while disposed in the mouth cavity being symmetrically disposed about a center line of the displacement member which is adapted to pass through a frenulum of the tongue while the device is in the mouth cavity; and a connection which connects the displacement member to the mouthpiece and which is also adapted to be symmetrically disposed about the center line and the surface comprises either a spherical surface or comprises two intersecting spherical surfaces adapted to be disposed to a right and to a left of the frenulum of the tongue.