US 11,744,686 B2
Intraoral device
Thien Nguyen, Santa Ana, CA (US); and Tam Thanh Pham, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Solmetex, ILC, Northborough, MA (US)
Filed by SOLMETEX, LLC, Northborough, MA (US)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2014, as Appl. No. 14/228,057.
Application 14/228,057 is a continuation of application No. 14/100,323, filed on Dec. 9, 2013, granted, now 8,911,232.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/734,939, filed on Dec. 7, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2014/0212840 A1, Jul. 31, 2014
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61C 17/02 (2006.01); A61C 17/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 17/0208 (2013.01) [A61C 17/08 (2019.05)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mouthpiece comprising:
a main body having a first end opposite a second end, the main body having an interior space, wherein the main body is configured in a shape wider at the first end and narrower at the second end, and wherein the main body comprises:
a first wall defined by a plurality of first edges, the first wall comprising a slit opening extending a longitudinal length parallel to a longitudinal and central axis of the main body, the longitudinal length extending from a middle location of the first wall away from the first end and toward the second end of the main body, the slit opening allowing fluids exterior to the interior space to enter along the longitudinal length into the interior space,
a second wall defined by a plurality of second edges that correspond to the first edges of the first wall, the second wall located at a distance from the first wall, the distance corresponding to a span of the interior space,
a connecting wall that connects one of the first edges of the first wall to one of the corresponding second edges of the second wall across the span of the interior space between the first wall and the second wall, and
a bridge structure that includes a plurality of protrusions integral with and protruding from an interior surface of the second wall, the bridge structure extending through the interior space towards the first wall, wherein the bridge structure is not attached to the first wall, and wherein the plurality of protrusions of the bridge structure protrude in a wave shape comprising one or more crests and one or more troughs.