Patent ID: 7229422
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: A61F,A61H

Abstract:
1. A suction cup for nonsurgical correction of the form and/or functionality of the chest in which the suction cup is placed in sealing contact on the anterior side of a torso of a patient and with which a partial vacuum can be applied to the torso, wherein the suction cup is composed at least in part of soft elastic material, and is provided with inner flanks that flare toward the torso when under atmospheric pressure, the suction cup further comprising first and second lateral body-fitting portions each adapted to contact on opposite sides of a sternum of the patient, an upper body-fitting portion adapted to contact an upper region of the sternum and a lower body-fitting portion adapted to contact a lower region of, or below, the sternum, and wherein the suction cup has a circumference and a deformability that varies over its circumference and wherein the deformability of at least two members selected from the uroup consisting of said upper body-fitting portion, said first lateral body-fitting portion, said second lateral body-fitting portion and said lower body-fitting portion, is different.