US 11,850,357 B2
Portable halotherapy device for aerosolizing salt
Aubrey L. Hilliard, Charlotte, NC (US); and Anne R Glasgow, Charlotte, NC (US)
Assigned to Infinity Salt Air Machine, LLC, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by INFINITY SALT AIR MACHINE, LLC, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/107,141.
Application 17/107,141 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2019/061327, filed on Nov. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/760,681, filed on Nov. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0077756 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 15/02 (2006.01); A61M 16/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 15/02 (2013.01) [A61M 16/0066 (2013.01); A61M 2202/066 (2013.01); A61M 2206/16 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable halotherapy device, comprising:
(a) one or more housings that may be coupled together to define a single operational unit;
(b) a grinding chamber, having an interior with a moving grinding blade therein, that is disposed within the one or more housings and that breaks apart dry granular salt in the interior thereof into salt particles small enough to be used for halotherapy;
(c) an air intake assembly, including one or more air ducts that each route ambient air from outside the one or more housings into the interior of the grinding chamber;
(d) a fluid conduit that is disposed within the one or more housings and that has an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end, wherein the conduit extends upward from the first end, wherein the inlet is in fluid communication with the interior of the grinding chamber; and
(e) an exhaust unit, the exhaust unit including a high-speed fan disposed within the one or more housings at the second end of the fluid conduit and in communication with the outlet thereof;
(f) wherein the moving grinding blade and the high-speed fan together operate to produce an airflow pattern that causes ambient air to be brought through the air ducts of the air intake assembly and into the grinding chamber where a regular and predictable first air current is produced, wherein the airflow pattern further causes air to divert from the first air current upward, in a second air current, into the inlet of the fluid conduit and through the high-speed fan of the exhaust unit for distribution to the outside of the one or more housings; and
(g) wherein the first air current assists in moving the dry granular salt around the grinding chamber and against surfaces thereof, thereby assisting in breaking apart the dry granular salt into small salt particles for halotherapy, while the second air current is arranged relative to the first air current such that the small salt particles, but not larger pieces of salt, are carried in the form of a salt aerosol by the second air current upward into the inlet of the fluid conduit and through the high-speed fan of the exhaust unit for distribution to the outside of the one or more housings, thereby facilitating a halotherapy session.