US 12,303,645 B2
Headgear for a patient interface
Jeroen Hammer, Auckland (NZ)
Assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited, Auckland (NZ)
Appl. No. 17/434,369
Filed by Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited, Auckland (NZ)
PCT Filed Feb. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/051507
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/174344, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/811,754, filed on Feb. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0088340 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 16/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 16/0683 (2013.01) [A61M 2205/0216 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A headgear for a respiratory interface having a strap assembly comprising:
an elongate flexible strap;
a rail or a pair of rails extending longitudinally along a rail portion of the strap, and a slide member having a channel that receives the rail or a pair of channels each of which receives a respective one rail of the pair of rails;
wherein the slide member is attached to an attachment portion of the flexible strap and slidable along the rail or the pair of rails to adjust the length of the strap assembly;
wherein the strap comprises woven threads of different thicknesses, or woven bundles of varying numbers of threads, to vary the width or thickness of the strap.