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Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Nightbalance B.v., The Hague, NL;

Inventor:
Assignee:

NightBalance B.V., The Hague, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/0476 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1116 (2013.01); A61B 5/1118 (2013.01); A61B 5/4809 (2013.01); A61B 5/4812 (2013.01); A61B 5/7282 (2013.01); A61B 5/746 (2013.01); A61B 5/0476 (2013.01); A61B 5/7455 (2013.01); A61B 7/003 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0271 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a sleep posture alerting method or an apparatus therefor, the sleep posture of a person is detected and the person is automatically alerted by an alerting device when the sleep posture is out of a predetermined body posture range. The detection of the sleep posture or at least the alerting of the person, when his/her body posture is out of the predefined body posture range, is deactivated during a sleep-in time period. The apparatus includes a sleep detecting sensor connected to the control unit for detecting whether the person is in a state of sleep. When it is detected that the person is in a state of sleep, the sleep-in timer is ignored and the detection of the sleep posture or the alerting of the person is activated such that, in the event that his/her body posture is out of the predefined body posture range, the person will be alerted.


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