Patent Application
20220339064
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The disclosure relates to acupressure devices and more particularly pertains to a new acupressure device for helping people sleep. The present device includes a plurality of forehead pads to apply pressure to forehead acupressure points. There is also a pair of temple pads that may be adjusted during use for proper positioning.
The prior art relates to acupressure devices. Known devices are typically designed for headache relief and do not include a concentration of pads for forehead acupressure points. These devices often include fixed pressure points that cannot be independently adjusted while the band is being worn.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a headband having a band front side, a band back side, a band left edge, a band right edge, an open band top edge, and a band bottom edge. A strap is coupled to the band right edge. A pair of engagement members is coupled to the headband and the strap. The pair of engagement members is selectively engageable to secure the headband around a user's head. An insert is coupled to the headband. The insert is selectively positioned within the headband through the band top edge between the band front side and the band back side. The insert has an insert front side and an insert back side. A pair of temple pads is coupled to the insert. Each temple pad is coupled to the insert back side and is configured to align with the user's temples while the headband is worn.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A strap 34 is coupled to the band right edge 20. The strap 34 is slidably engageable through the strap slit 32. A pair of engagement members 36 is coupled to the headband 12 and the strap 34. The pair of engagement members 36 is selectively engageable to secure the headband 12 around a user's head 38. The pair of engagement members 36 includes a first engagement member 40 coupled to the strap 34 and a second engagement member 42 coupled to the band front side 14 proximal the strap slit 32. Each engagement member 36 may be a selectively engageable fastener such as, but not limited to, hook-and-loop, buttons, snaps, and the like.
A head covering 44 may be coupled to the headband 12. The head covering 44 is coupled to the band top edge 22 and may fully cover the user's head 38 as seen in
An insert 46 is coupled to the headband 12. The insert 46 is selectively positioned within the headband 12 through the band top edge 22 between the band front side 14 and the band back side 16. The insert 46 has an insert front side 48 and an insert back side 50. The insert 46 has a pair of adjustment apertures 52 extending therethrough.
A plurality of forehead pads 54 may be coupled to the insert 46. Each forehead pad 54 is coupled to the insert front side and configured to align with a plurality of acupressure points between the user's temples. Each forehead pad 54 may be obround. The plurality of forehead pads 54 may be arranged in two arrays of three forehead pads 54.
A pair of temple pads 60 is coupled to the insert. Each temple pad 60 is coupled to the insert back side 50 and configured to align with the user's temples while the headband is worn. Each of the temple pads 60 may have a pad portion 62 and an adjustment string portion 64 coupled to the pad portion 62. Each pad portion 62 may have a cylindrical section 66 and a hemispherical section 68. The adjustment string portion 64 is slidably coupled through the respective adjustment aperture 52 and adjustment slit 28. The adjustment string portion 64 may include a loop 70 and a slider 72 to tighten the respective pad portion 62 in a desired position.
An alternative embodiment of the invention 74 shown in
In use, the headband 12 is placed on the user's head 38 to position the plurality of forehead pads 54 between the user's temples. The pair of temple pads 60 can then be adjusted by pulling on the adjustment string portions 64 to properly position the pair of temple pads 60 on the user's temples.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
