| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mouth-opening force measuring instrument that can simply evaluate a swallowing strength.SOLUTION: A mouth-opening force measuring instrument 10 includes: a headgear member 11 capable of being arranged in a wearer's head; a jaw receiving member 13 having a jaw receiving part 131 capable of being arranged so that the upper surface comes in contact with a jaw; belt-shaped members 12 with ends connected with the headgear member 11 and holding the jaw receiving member 13; and a mouth-opening force measuring member 14 provided to any one of the headgear member 11, the jaw receiving member 13 or the belt-shaped members 12, and capable of measuring the mouth-opening force of the jaw of the wearer. The jaw receiving member 13 has a pair of penetration parts 132 capable of being penetrated by the belt-shaped members 12 formed in both sides of the jaw receiving part 131. Preferably, the mouth-opening force measuring member 14 may be arranged in the bottom side of the jaw receiving member 13, and may have a measurement part 141 capable of measuring the mouth-opening force through the jaw receiving part 131 and belt connection parts 142 connected with the belt-shaped members 12 with the penetration parts 132 penetrated therethrough.</p> |
