Patent ID: 8640705

Claim:
An intraoral anti-snoring device, for shifting the lower jaw forward in relation to the upper jaw, with an upper jaw bar and a lower jaw bar that are both U-shaped and are connected to each other in a hinge joint at their outer flanks facing away from each other via protrusion brackets by means of fixing buttons, with each of the fixing buttons being rigidly fixed at the upper and lower jaw bar and being movably connected to the protrusion brackets that are stretchable and compressible and have a round hole at each end section of said protrusion brackets for accepting the fixing buttons being staggered relative to each other at the upper jaw bar and the lower jaw bar in the extension direction of said bars, wherein a center section of the protrusion brackets connecting the end sections is curved and is engineered as a spring element having a cross-sectional contour—at least in part—that permits a temporary change of a distance of the round holes relative to each other by elastically deforming the protrusion brackets, and wherein the center section has one elongated hole that is located between the round holes and extends substantially in the longitudinal direction over a large area of the center section of the protrusion brackets while forming longitudinal edge strips that are capable of spring action and wherein at least one of the narrow ends of the elongated hole is connected with one of the round holes of the protrusion brackets, so that the fixing buttons can be moved from the round hole to the elongated hole and vice versa, and wherein a step or a narrow section is provided at a transition from the elongated hole to the round hole that has a snap effect during the movement of the fixing button from the round hole into the elongated hole and vice versa.