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1. An electric stimulation system for treating sleep apnea in a patient, comprising:
treatment means designed to treat the acoustic signal generated by the patient's breathing and divide it into a plurality of blocks, each block corresponds to a fragment of the acoustic signal within a time interval, said treatment means are furthermore designed to measure the strength of a plurality of blocks of the acoustic signal; control means designed to count, in the plurality of blocks measured, the number of low strength blocks CLSB when the strength of the block is less than a strength threshold linked to breathing, TBrea, said control means furthermore being designed to determine the existence of an apnea episode when the number of low strength blocks CLSB exceeds a threshold on the number of low strength blocks TLSB, said control means are also designed to selectively control, if there is an apnea episode, the activation of a number of electric stimulation means, designed to apply an electric signal to the submental muscles linked to the respiratory airways. |