Pacifier for infants
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to a pacifier for infants used to comfort infants. More specifically, a silicone tube body ( 10 ), into which or from which air can be injected or discharged such that an infant feels the silicone tube body like a breast of the infant's mother when touching the silicone tube body, is coupled for use to a nipple-shaped nipple unit ( 50 ) by a secure coupling unit ( 30 ), and thus, due to the infant's touching of the silicone tube body, not only emotional security as if the infant were in the bosom of the infant's mother can be provided but also the development of the infant's brain can be beneficially stimulated, in comparison with traditional plastic pacifiers. Particularly, the nipple unit is not only simply coupled but also hermetically coupled by the secure coupling unit to a coupling ring formed at the front of the silicone tube body, and the silicone tube body has a valve through which air is smoothly injected or discharged, and thus the product not only can be assembled and taken apart for use but also provides great confidence and convenience of using air injection. In addition, when air is injected into the silicone tube body, the tube body is inflated not upward but downward so as to be prevented from blocking out the forward field of view of the infant sucking on the pacifier, and thus psychological security is more greatly provided for the infant.
1. A pacifier for infants comprising:
a silicone tube body having a flexible hollow spherical body so that an infant feels the body like a breast of the infant's mother when the infant touches the body, a valve for injecting air into the body or discharging air from the body, and an opening, wherein the opening includes an integrally formed round coupling ring;
a secure coupling unit to fit and couple onto the coupling ring of the silicone tube body; and
a nipple-shaped unit coupled to the secure coupling unit,
wherein the valve of the silicone tube body includes a split part cut in a straight line so that air can be injected or discharged, and right and left protrusions formed at both sides of a lower portion of the split part, and the right and left protrusions push out a cover sheet closely combined with the lower portion of the valve from the bottom of the split part so as to secure a gap space allowing air to be injected or discharged.
2. The pacifier for infants according to claim 1 , wherein the body of the silicone tube body has an upper portion which is thicker than a remainder of the body and is expanded not upwards but downwards when air is injected, so as not to block the forward view of the infant while the infant has the nipple-shaped unit in the infant's mouth.
3. The pacifier for infants according to claim 1 , wherein the secure coupling unit includes a fixing member and a coupling member, wherein the fixing member has a ring-shaped coupling groove to hermetically fit and couple to the coupling ring of the silicone tube body on the outer circumference of the body, a tension retaining piece having a retaining jaw formed at an outer face and tensioning inwardly and outwardly, and a ring-shaped coupling protrusion formed on the same circumference as the tension retaining piece, wherein the ring-shaped coupling protrusion is inserted into the middle of the body and the coupling member has a coupling hole having a retaining groove formed on an inner circumference such that the retaining jaw of the tension retaining piece is caught to the retaining groove so as not to be separated from the retaining groove, and a through hole which has a diameter smaller in diameter than the coupling hole and is formed to be stepped, and wherein a coupling part at a rear of the nipple-shaped unit is inserted between the ring-shaped coupling protrusion of the fixing member and a stepped jaw inside the coupling member so as not to be separated from the fixing member and the coupling member.
4. The pacifier for infants according to claim 1 , wherein the round coupling ring is integrally formed on a rim of an opening part of a front of the body to be thicker than then a wall of the body.