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Patent US10449326
Issued 2019-10-22
Audio Tone Programmed Hygienic And Therapeutic Sleep And Wake Eye Mask Having Remotely Controlled Sunrise And Sunset Multimodes
An eye mask for use to wake up and/or to go to sleep provides ease of cleaning or replacement without damaging electrical or optical components; different user selectable sunrise and sunset illumination modes respectively having blue-shifted and red-shifted spectra simulating natural sunrises and sunsets to assimilate the sleep/wake cycle to the natural rhythms of day and night; sunset and/or sunrise illumination modes that oscillate with fixed period or sequentially changing periods that correspond to brainwave frequencies that respectively facilitate going to sleep and/or waking and synergistically co-operate with corresponding sunset or sunrise light fields to help the user to fall into restful sleep or to awake refreshed and alert; and audio tone programming of illumination mode and treatment time and/or duration of therapy by a remote tone control generator.
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- 1. A sleep and wake eye mask that is hygienic and readily cleanable for use on the head when seated on the face and positioned over the left and right eyes of a user to assimilate the sleep/wake cycle of the user to the natural rhythms of night and day, comprising:
a replaceable and/or washable or otherwise cleanable cover subassembly; an electro-optical core subassembly removably inserted within said cover subassembly allowing removal of the electro-optical core subassembly from a soiled cover subassembly and reinsertion of the same or another electro-optical subassembly in a cleaned or replacement cover subassembly; said cover subassembly includes a member adapted to be worn about the head and to comfortably seat against the face over the eyes of the user having walls defining left and right light-tight eye cavities facing the left and right eyes; said electro-optical core subassembly including an electro-optical module having a user-input interface, a controller connected to the user-input interface and a light source connected to said controller that are cooperative to provide illumination in said left and right eye cavities simulating natural sunrises and sunsets in order to assimilate the sleep/wake cycle to the natural rhythms of night and day in accord with user input sunrise or sunset mode selection and user input start and duration of therapy control parameters; wherein said member of said cover subassembly includes a first portion of soft, flexible material providing said walls defining said left and right eye cavities and a second portion of flexible opaque material, said first and second portions of said member of said cover subassembly defining an electro-optical core subassembly receiving chamber within said cover subassembly into and from which said electro-optical core subassembly is removably inserted within said cover subassembly; wherein said electro-optical core subassembly includes first and second layers of light blocking material and an intermediate layer of material therebetween that includes a cutout to receive said electro-optical module; wherein said electro-optical module of said electro-optical core subassembly includes an electronics module having said controller and wherein said light source of said electro-optical module of said electro-optical core subassembly connected to said controller includes left and right full-spectrum red, green and blue LED panels; and wherein said electro-optical module is inserted in the cutout provided therefor in said intermediate layer of said electro-optical core subassembly.
