IP Library Granted Patent US 7,905,899
Granted Patent B2
US 7,905,899 · App. 11/589,873 · Granted Mar 15, 2011

Nose protect

Assignee: Eight Six Japan Limited Company
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Patent No.
US 7,905,899
App. No.
11/589,873
Granted
Mar 15, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A nose protect, which is mounted in each of nostrils to thereby reshape the nose, includes a first nostril abutting portion having a first curved surface, coming in surface contact with the inside region of a nasal tip in a preset range; a second nostril abutting portion having a second curved surface, coming in surface contact with the inside region of an ala nasi opposite to the inside region of the nasal tip in a preset range; and a pair of nostril abutting portion connections configured into a thin plate shape that facilitates elastic deformation, coupling the first nostril abutting portion to the second nostril abutting portion, integrally molded out of synthetic resin in which tourmaline powder is mixed with silicon resin.

Claims (12)

1. A nose protect which is mounted in each of nostrils to thereby reshape a nose, the nose protect comprising:

a first nostril abutting portion having a first curved surface that is convex outwardly from a near end to a far end thereof, to come in surface contact with an inside region of a nasal tip in a preset range, the near end of the first curved surface being designed to be positioned nearer to an entrance of the nostril and the far end of the first curved surface being designed to be inserted farther from the entrance of the nostril;

a second nostril abutting portion having a second curved surface that is convex outwardly from a near end to a far end thereof, to come in surface contact with an inside region of an ala nasi opposite to the inside region of the nasal tip in a present range, the near end of the second curved surface being designed to be positioned nearer to an entrance of the nostril and the far end of the second curved surface being designed to be inserted farther from the entrance of the nostril; and

a pair of nostril abutting portion connections formed as two thin plates, respectively, with a thickness substantially smaller than each thickness of the first nostril abutting portion and the second nostril abutting portion, for facilitating elastic deformation,

wherein the near end of the first curved surface of the first nostril abutting portion is provided with a knob portion that is convex along its outer surface,

wherein the pair of abutting portion connections couple the first nostril abutting portion to the second nostril abutting portion such that a plate surface of one of the nostril abutting portion connections continuously extends from one side face of the first nostril abutting portion to one side face of the second nostril abutting portion and a plate surface of another of the nostril abutting portion connections continuously extends from an opposite side face of the first nostril abutting portion to an opposite side face of the second nostril abutting portion,

wherein a side edge of each of the nostril abutting portion connections between the near end of the first curved surface and the near end of the second curved surface forms a flat-bottomed recess contour so that, in a state where the nose protect is mounted in the nostril with the first curved surface of the first nostril abutting portion being in surface contact with the inside region of the nasal tip and the second curved surface of the second nostril abutting portion being in surface contact with the inside region of the ala nasi, the nostril butting portion connections are elastically deformed with ease in mutually separating directions, to come in contact, in a vestibule of the nose, with a middle portion between the inside region of the nasal tip and the inside region of the ala nasi, and

wherein the first nostril abutting portion, the second nostril abutting portion, and the pair of nostril abutting portion connections are integrally molded out of synthetic resin.

2. A nose protect according to claim 1 , wherein the synthetic resin includes tourmaline powder mixed with silicon resin.

3. A nose protect according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first curved surface in the first nostril abutting portion, the second curved surface in the second nostril abutting portion, and the pair of nostril abutting portion connections is provided with a group of fine air holes.

4. A nose protect according to claim 3 , wherein the pair of nostril abutting portion connections are curved in a convex shape so as to be farthest away from each other at a middle part.

5. A nose protect according to claim 1 , wherein the pair of nostril abutting portion connections are curved in a convex shape so as to be farthest away from each other at a middle part.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 6, 2014
From: EIGHT SIX JAPAN COMPANY LIMITED
To: 8 · 6 CO., INC.
Reel/Frame 033477/0723 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2006
From: FUNABASHI, MASAHIRO
To: EIGHT SIX JAPAN LIMITED COMPANY
Reel/Frame 018483/0543 →
Continuity (1)
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