Patent ID: 7850702
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A clamp in the form of a mainly V-shaped device for non-invasively affecting a cartilage fold on an exterior ear of a person by applying stretching and compressive forces, which clamp comprises first and second legs that are arranged in a V shape and are made of a material having properties sufficient to be given a permanent deformation to maintain a constant pressure on local, opposite areas of the cartilage fold of the exterior ear and to maintain the constant pressure and the stretching and compressive forces until the clamp is removed, wherein the first and second legs of the clamp prior to use have a mutual first angle α which is smaller than or equal to 90°, and wherein the clamp in use extends over the cartilage fold, with the first and second legs permanently deformed to assume a second angle β which is smaller than the first angle α, wherein the first and second legs have free ends that are arc-shaped and converge mutually towards each other.