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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spoon-like eating implement allowing a person having restriction in the movement of a lip, a mouth, or a tongue to naturally have a meal. SOLUTION: This spoon-like eating implement includes a handle part and a dish-like recess part, wherein the dish-like recess part has a double-layer structure, and an upper layer part of the dish-like recess part is vertically movable by the pressure of a fluid or a mechanical element. Preferably, the handle part and the dish-like recess part have hollow parts, respectively, the hollow parts communicates with each other, the hollow parts are filled with the fluid, and the upper layer part of the dish-shaped recess part is more flexible than the lower layer part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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