US 12,220,384 B2
Pacifier
Satoru Saito, Tokyo (JP); Satoshi Koyama, Tokyo (JP); Masatomo Ohara, Tokyo (JP); and Chikako Mori, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to PIGEON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/627,716
Filed by PIGEON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/027283
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/010381, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-132296 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0257473 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. A61J 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 17/111 (2020.05) [A61J 17/001 (2015.05)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pacifier used by an infant hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit and comprising:
a nipple portion configured to be held in a mouth of the infant; and
a back plate portion that is connected to a base portion of the nipple portion and has an asymmetrical shape with respect to an axis passing through a center of the nipple portion and extending in a vertical direction configured for connecting a nose and the mouth of the infant in a state where the infant holds the pacifier in the mouth, wherein
the back plate portion includes:
a main body portion connected to the base portion and having a shape extending in the form of a flange from the base portion to a periphery of the base portion; and
an extension portion that is connected to the main body portion on only one of a left side or a right side of the main body portion in a lateral direction, wherein
the lateral direction is perpendicular to the vertical direction and configured to connect left and right cheeks of the infant in the state where the infant holds the pacifier in the mouth,
the extension portion extends from the main body portion in the lateral direction only on the one of the left side or the right side of the main body portion, and
the extension portion is inclined toward a side of a tip portion of the nipple portion as the extension portion extends from the main body portion.