US 12,121,663 B2
Frame and headgear for respiratory mask system
Priyanka Ferdinand Pereira, Auckland (NZ); Amit Galgali, Auckland (NZ); Ryan Anthony Graham, Auckland (NZ); Jake Baker Hocking, Auckland (NZ); Callum Ross Gordon, Auckland (NZ); Thomas Mark Richardson, Auckland (NZ); Mark Andrew Thompson, Auckland (NZ); Vicky Dan Gao, Auckland (NZ); Cameron Robert Willis, Auckland (NZ); Jordan Dean Jones Kimpton, Auckland (NZ); and Bruno Sintive, Auckland (NZ)
Assigned to FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LIMITED, Aukland (NZ)
Appl. No. 16/645,416
Filed by Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited, Auckland (NZ)
PCT Filed Sep. 17, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/057094
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 6, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/053666, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 21, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/560,063, filed on Sep. 18, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0282169 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A61M 16/06 (2006.01); A61M 16/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 16/0683 (2013.01) [A61M 16/06 (2013.01); A61M 16/0622 (2014.02); A61M 16/0666 (2013.01); A61M 16/0816 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A respiratory mask assembly comprising:
a headgear configured to secure the respiratory mask assembly to a face of a user in use, the headgear comprising:
a yoke;
first and second side arms, each of the first and second side arms extending from a lateral portion of the yoke, and each of the first and second side arms configured to extend across a respective cheek and above a respective ear of the user in use; and
a top strap coupled to and extending between the first and second side arms and the top strap configured to extend across a top of a head of the user in use;
a frame having a body extending along a longitudinal axis from an inlet to an outlet, the body having a top, a bottom, and two sides;
a headgear connector coupled to the headgear and configured to be coupled to the frame by approaching the frame from one of the top or the bottom;
wherein the yoke extends across a front surface of the headgear connector from a first lateral end of the headgear connector to a second, opposite lateral end of the headgear connector; and
wherein the inlet and/or the outlet has an oval shape.