| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
| 128206130 | Mask attached to ear | 11 |
| 20110203593 | MASK - An effective technique for balancing mask breathability and mask trapping capability at higher levels is provided in a mask to be worn on a wearer's face. A mask | 08-25-2011 |
| 20090205666 | Directional Flat Face Mask - A face mask has mask material and ties or ear loops coupled to the mask material. The face mask is flat until worn. The mask material has an outside and an inside, which inside is designed to be against the wearer's face when the mask is worn. A deformable nose strip is provided near a top edge of the mask material. The nose strip is preformed into a contour for fitting about a nose. The contour bows out from the inside to the outside. A wearer donning the mask intuitively knows to orient the contour to the wearer's nose, wherein the inside is automatically positioned against the wearer's face. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090199856 | Protective garment for masks - A protective garment adapted to be worn by a patient fitted with mask having a strap. The garment is constructed from a soft, resilient material, such as yarn which is knitted, or foam. The garment includes (1) an elongate central portion having a first end and an opposite second end. The central portion has a recessed region and adjacent peripheral raised regions. The recessed region and peripheral raised regions extend substantially the entire length of the central portion. The recessed region receives the strap of the mask. The garment further includes cheek pads integral with the first and second ends of the central portion. The protective garment prevents the face, ears and head of the patient from chafing caused by direct contact between the patient's skin and the mask and strap. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20100258130 | Kitchen Mask - A kitchen mask includes a cover body provided for covering a mouth/nose position of a user's face, a strap disposed separately on both sides of the cover body and installed at the user's ears, and a nose portion disposed on the cover body and corresponding to the user's nose, and matched with the user's nasal profile, such that when the kitchen mask is worn, the nose portion is protruded out from the cover body, and at least one air hole disposed at the nose portion and corresponding to a position of the user's nostril, and having a thin ventilating filter material disposed at the air hole of the nose portion. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100000541 | Protective garment - A protective garment incorporates a face and neck mask adapted to filter out airborne particulates. The protective garment outwardly has the appearance of a conventional shirt, sweater or jacket, yet incorporates a convenient, easy to use, and readily accessible mask that is always available to the wearer and is ready for use on short notice. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090114228 | Disposable outdoors mask and method of use - A mask designed to be worn to cover the mouth of a user comprises an inner and exterior layers, with an odor adsorbing layer and a filter layer disposed between the inner and exterior layer. The filter layer is positioned between the inner layer and odor adsorbing layer to prevent or minimize entry of unwanted particulate matter into the user's mouth. Once the mask is used to its fullest, it can be thrown away since it is constructed to be sufficiently low in cost so that it can be disposed and another one used the next time odor and particulate filtering is needed. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20080230066 | Perfume impregnated mask with an image thereon - A face mask for covering the nose and mouth of a healthcare professional. The mask is made from a material that is impregnated or coated with a pleasant smelling perfume. The mask may be impregnated with the perfume at the factory or, alternatively, may be sold with one or more perfume retaining dispensers which enable the professional to apply a desired quantity of perfume to the mask immediately prior to use. The mask of the present invention may also be provided with a child-appealing image thereon. The image may be applied at the factory by incorporating the same into the material from which the mask is made or by adhesively connecting the same thereto. Alternatively, the image may be in the form of an applique that is child-appealing in nature is adhesively or otherwise secured to the outer surface of the mask at the hospital or consulting room. The pleasant smelling perfume may also be applied to the applique. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090071483 | MASK HAVING HOLDING OBJECT - Disclosed is a mask in that a housing space is formed through a three dimensional type cover and a fixing supporter is inserted into an edge of the three dimensional type cover in order to prevent the mask from being easily polluted by adhering closely to a nose and mouth of wearer, so that the outward form of the three dimensional type cover can be maintained even though a comparatively small power such as a wind or a physical contact is applied thereto. The mask having a fixing supporter includes a body having a penetration portion of a predetermined size at the center thereof in order to insert a nose and a mouth of the wearer therein, a three dimensional type cover coupled to the body and separated from the penetration portion at a predetermined distance and having an opening portion for being indirectly ventilated to outside formed at the lower portion thereof in order that the nose and mouth of the wearer inserted into the penetration portion are wrapped up, an earring for wearing the mask on the ear coupled to both end portions of the body, and a fixing supporter inserted along a sewing portion located at the girth of the three dimensional type cover in order that the nose and mouth of the wearer are not adhered closely to the inside of the three dimensional type cover. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20120125343 | FACE MASK AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A method for making a face mask includes: cutting an elastic sheet to form an ear hanging strap having an opening; forming a cup-shaped mask body; thermal-bonding the cup-shaped mask body to a bonding portion of the ear hanging strap surrounding the opening; and forming two ear hanging holes in the ear hanging strap at two opposite sides of the opening. A face mask made by the above method is also provided. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20100326444 | SANITARY MASK FOR THE PROTECTION OF OTHERS - Disclosed is a sanitary mask for hygienically protecting others that can be conveniently re-used and has a simple structure firmly maintained while the sanitary mask is used, so as to surely achieve the purpose of the sanitary mask, by molding the overall frame of plastics and improving the structure from a structure of preceding Korean Patent Application No. 10-2007-111003, which was filed by the inventor(s) of the present invention before the filing of the present patent application. The sanitary mask for hygienically protecting other people by blocking unsanitary substances provided by respiratory organs including a mouth and a nose of a user from spreading to and contaminating a clean object while exposing the respiratory organs comprising: a lower body molded in a curved shape, i.e., a āUā shape, and including supporters to be hung on the ears of the user or to be wound around a back head of the user at the ends of both sides of the lower body; and a respiratory organ front cover configured to be inclined upward from an upper portion of a front portion of the lower body and cover a front portion of an area around the respiratory organs of the user to thereby expose the respiratory organs of the user. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20120272968 | DISPOSABLE OUTDOORS MASK AND METHOD OF USE - A mask designed to be worn to cover the mouth of a user comprises an inner and exterior layers, with an odor adsorbing layer and a filter layer disposed between the inner and exterior layer. The filter layer is positioned between the inner layer and odor adsorbing layer to prevent or minimize entry of unwanted particulate matter into the user's mouth. Once the mask is used to its fullest, it can be thrown away since it is constructed to be sufficiently low in cost so that it can be disposed and another one used the next time odor and particulate filtering is needed. | 11-01-2012 |