Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Adam Michael Neff

Matthew Paul Eury

Daniel James Miller

Timotheos James Leahy

Matthew Michael Julian

Richard Thomas Haibach

Jerome Matula, Jr

Lauren Patricia Chodkowski

Susan Marie Mals

Dina Colangelo

Michael Joseph Zadrozny

Alicia Marie Brentzel

A patient interface includes a cushion having a body with a front portion and a rear portion. The front portion has a lower opening structured to receive a flow of a treatment gas and a coupling mechanism. The rear portion is structured to engage a user's face and provide a generally continuous seal therewith. The patient interface further includes a frame having a torus shaped portion defining an opening. The opening has at least a portion of the coupling mechanism disposed therein.

Patient interface device with frame and clips

An elongated flexible conduit () includes an flow element () having a first elongated wall segment () and a second elongated wall segment () that are connected together at their sides to form a wall () that is continuous in a circumferential direction perpendicular to the direction of elongation (). The flow element is movable between a first configuration and a second configuration (), with the first configuration being an expanded configuration, and with the second configuration being a collapsed configuration. The flow element can be moved from its expanded configuration to its collapsed configuration, such as for purposes of packing during traveling, and can then be moved from its collapsed configuration back to its expanded configuration in any of a variety of fashions in order to return the flow element to a condition in which it can carry a flow of breathing gas from a CPAP machine () to a CPAP mask ().

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Oakmont, PA, United States of America

Adam Michael Neff