GB2080114A - Method of making an artificial leg - Google Patents
Method of making an artificial leg Download PDFInfo
- Publication number
- GB2080114A GB2080114A GB8023308A GB8023308A GB2080114A GB 2080114 A GB2080114 A GB 2080114A GB 8023308 A GB8023308 A GB 8023308A GB 8023308 A GB8023308 A GB 8023308A GB 2080114 A GB2080114 A GB 2080114A
- Authority
- GB
- United Kingdom
- Prior art keywords
- foot
- ankle
- shin
- attachment member
- socket
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Granted
Links
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 title claims abstract description 6
- 210000002414 leg Anatomy 0.000 claims abstract description 24
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 13
- 239000004033 plastic Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 10
- 229920003023 plastic Polymers 0.000 claims abstract description 10
- 210000000689 upper leg Anatomy 0.000 claims abstract description 8
- 230000001413 cellular effect Effects 0.000 claims abstract description 5
- 210000003423 ankle Anatomy 0.000 claims description 39
- 210000003127 knee Anatomy 0.000 claims description 23
- 210000002683 foot Anatomy 0.000 claims description 22
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 claims description 15
- 210000000629 knee joint Anatomy 0.000 claims description 9
- 238000000465 moulding Methods 0.000 claims description 4
- 239000011152 fibreglass Substances 0.000 claims description 3
- 239000006260 foam Substances 0.000 claims description 2
- 239000011342 resin composition Substances 0.000 claims description 2
- 210000003414 extremity Anatomy 0.000 description 6
- 229920001169 thermoplastic Polymers 0.000 description 3
- 239000004416 thermosoftening plastic Substances 0.000 description 3
- 239000004677 Nylon Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229920001971 elastomer Polymers 0.000 description 2
- 239000011521 glass Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910052751 metal Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229920001778 nylon Polymers 0.000 description 2
- 239000004411 aluminium Substances 0.000 description 1
- 229910052782 aluminium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 1
- XAGFODPZIPBFFR-UHFFFAOYSA-N aluminium Chemical compound [Al] XAGFODPZIPBFFR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- 230000003466 anti-cipated effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000000295 complement effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 238000010276 construction Methods 0.000 description 1
- 239000000806 elastomer Substances 0.000 description 1
- 239000013536 elastomeric material Substances 0.000 description 1
- 230000007774 longterm Effects 0.000 description 1
- 239000000203 mixture Substances 0.000 description 1
- 229920003052 natural elastomer Polymers 0.000 description 1
- 229920001194 natural rubber Polymers 0.000 description 1
- 230000002787 reinforcement Effects 0.000 description 1
- 239000005060 rubber Substances 0.000 description 1
- 239000007787 solid Substances 0.000 description 1
- 229920003051 synthetic elastomer Polymers 0.000 description 1
- 239000005061 synthetic rubber Substances 0.000 description 1
Classifications
-
- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/50—Prostheses not implantable in the body
- A61F2/60—Artificial legs or feet or parts thereof
-
- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/50—Prostheses not implantable in the body
- A61F2/76—Means for assembling, fitting or testing prostheses, e.g. for measuring or balancing, e.g. alignment means
Landscapes
- Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
- Transplantation (AREA)
- Heart & Thoracic Surgery (AREA)
- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (AREA)
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Biomedical Technology (AREA)
- Cardiology (AREA)
- Vascular Medicine (AREA)
- Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
- Animal Behavior & Ethology (AREA)
- General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
- Public Health (AREA)
- Veterinary Medicine (AREA)
- Orthopedic Medicine & Surgery (AREA)
- Prostheses (AREA)
Abstract
In the manufacture of an artificial leg a thigh member is connected to a preformed endoskeletal shin member with a moulded on cosmesis of cellular plastics material. The shin member is available in preselected sizes. <IMAGE>
Description
SPECIFICATION
Method of making an artificial leg
The present invention relates to a method for making an artificial leg which is assembled from a stock of modular components which can be held by a limb fitting centre and which can be assembled rapidly and inexpensively.
By the present method it is anticipated that patients will be able to be fitted with a leg in the course of a single working day, and the leg has sufficient cosmesis and in the embodiment described operates sufficiently well to be accepted for medium or long term use by relatively inactive patients such as geriatric patients. Accordingly the need to fit such patients with a pylon and then to fit them with a definitive leg can be avoided.
In one aspect the invention provides a method of making an artificial leg which comprises:
providing a thigh member having a stump socket at its upper end supported on struts from a knee joint member;
providing a plurality of preformed endoskeletal shin members each having an identical knee support member at its upper end, an identical ankle attachment member at its lower end, a shin tube rigidly connecting the knee support member and the ankle attachment member and a generally tubular cosmesis of cellular plastics material moulded onto the shin tube between the knee support member and the ankle attachment member, the shin tubes differing in length within a permitted range of length values;
forming a pivoted knee joint in which load is transmitted from the knee joint member to the knee support member; of a selected one of the shin members of a length; and
connecting a foot to the ankle attachment member.
A preferred method of forming the stump socket involves the steps of
moulding a plurality of generally tubular socket blanks from sheet plastics material, the blanks having adjoining unconnected edges defining a vertical split in the socket blank;
fitting a selected one of the socket blanks to the stump and cutting the adjoining edges so that the socket blank fits around the stump with the cut edges abutting;
fastening the cut edges to form the socket; and
fastening the socket to the struts.
Preferably the endoskeletal shin members are formed by securing a knee support member and an ankle attachment member to opposed ends of a shin tube, placing the assembly in a mould internally shaped to simulate the shin portion of a leg and introducing into the mould a resin composition which foams and cures to a cellular plastics material.
The leg substantially as described below and illustrated in the drawings is believed to be novel per se.
An embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: - Figure 1 is a side view in vertical section of an artificial leg according to the invention;
Figure 2 is an enlarged underneath view of an ankle attachment member used in the shin portion of the leg illustrated in Fig. 1;
Figure 3 is enlarged plan view of an ankle base interconnecting the shin portion of the leg to the foot; and
Figures 4a, 4b and 4c are top side and underneath views on an enlarged scale of a locating disc which fits between the ankle base and the ankle.
The leg shown in Fig. 1 has a thigh member indicated generally by 10 and a shin member indicated generally by 12 interconnected by a knee structure indicated generally by 13. A uniaxial foot indicated generally by 14 and believed to be of novel construction is fitted to the lower end of the shin member 12, but is optional and the needs of some patients may be met by a conventional solid ankle cushion heel (SACH) foot.
The thigh member 10 includes a load bearing stump socket 15 which is supported on struts 16 whose lower ends are secured in a knee fairing 17 of metal or preferably of a filled thermoplastics material such as glass reinforced nylon. The stump socket 15 is formed from a piece of thermo-plastics sheet of a selected one of a range of standard sizes which is rough-formed to the approximate dimensions and shape by vacuum or drape moulding. The resulting socket blank is fitted to the patient and the adjoining split edges can be trimmed to alter the angle of the socket in either direction and to alter the socket circumference. After the edges have been cut they are butted together and a plastics strip 18 is laid over them by rivets 19 whereby there is produced a socket to fit an individual stump. Alternatively butted edges of the stump socket may be welded together.
The top ends of the struts 16 are secured to the outer surface of the stump socket 15 using wing plates 20 of aluminium as reinforcement and the lower ends of struts 16 are riveted to the inner face of the knee fairing 17.
The knee fairing 17 has a generally hemispherical lower end as shown and is supported by a knee socket 25 forming part of the shin member 12 which is also made of a glass filled nylon and has a part spherical inner top surface complementary to the knee fairing. A transverse knee pivot shaft 26 interconnects the fairing 17 with the socket 25.
Forward travel of the thigh member 10 relative to the shin member 12 beyond the straight position illustrated is prevented by abutment of a rubber buffer 27 supported at an anterior portion of the knee fairing by a buttress member 28 with a thickened loadaccepting top anterior portion 29 of the socket 25. A pivoted link member 30 operated by a release handle 31 on the exterior of the knee fairing retracts a locking plunger 32 against the action of coil spring 33 from engagement with a locking face 34 in a posterior portion of the knee socket 25 thereby allowing flexion of the thigh member 10 relative to the shin member 12.
It will be understood that the uniaxial knee joint shown could for certain patients be replaced by a polycentric joint having a 4-bar or 6-bar linkage or by a stabilised knee joint of the general kind described in U.K. Patent No.
874327.
The shin member 12 is, as may be seen, of the endoskeletal type and has the knee socket 25 previously referred to secured to a shin tube 36 (e.g., by riveting it into a depending boss 35). The lower end of the tube 36 is secured in an upstanding boss 37 forming part of an ankle attachment member 38 also of filled thermoplastics material having a generally planar lower face in which there is a centrally positioned vertically directed internally threaded metal insert 39 for attachment of a uniaxial foot as described below. A cosmesis 40 in low density elastomer is formed surrounding the shin tube 36 between the socket 25 and the attachment member 38.
The shin assembly 12 is formed by cutting the tube 36 to length and riveting socket 25 and attachment member 37 to opposed ends thereof, after which the assembly is placed in a mould and a foamable plastics composition is introduced into the mould and allowed to cure. This structure of the shin member has the advantage that it can readily be provided in the form of a plurality of preformed shin members each of one of a range of possible standard lengths, and a limb fitter making a leg for a particular patient at a limb fitting centre can select the appropriate shin member for the particular patient who he is fitting.
Hitherto the shin members have been made individually and the cosmesis has also been made and shaped individually which is a laborious process. The provision of shin members in stock sizes which can be stored at a limb fitting centre in combination with the stump socket forming technique previously described enables a patient to be fitted with an artiticial leg during the course of a one-day visit to a limb fitting centre and is advantageous to the patient who is spared the trouble of repeated visits to a limb fitting centre and delay in receipt of his artificial leg as having self-evident cost advantages.
The shin member 12 is fitted with a uniaxial foot 14 made up of a body 25 of a low density micro-cellular elastomeric material in which is moulded a relatively rigid keel 41 of glass-reinforced plastics material. An ankle base 42 also of glass-reinforced plastics material is secured at its upper face to the ankle attachment member 38 and at its lower face is pivoted to the keel 41 about a transverse ankle pivot 43 which is held within a tee-bolt 43a with intermediate bearing bushes. An instep buffer 44 and a heel buffer 44a both of natural or synthetic rubber are located respectively between anterior and posterior portions of the ankle base 42 and the keel 41 to provide the appropriate degree of resistance to'.
flexion of the foot 14 relative to the shin member 12 from a normal position which they define. The ankle base 42 is secured to the angle attachment member 38 against movement longitudinally apart by means of a bolt 24 which is engaged in the threaded insert 39 and angular location of the foot 14 relative to the shin member 12 is achieved by means of a disc 46 having rows of circumferentially spaced teeth 47, 48 on its upper and lower faces which locate in respective sockets in attachment member 38 and an ankle base 42 as described in more detail below. The ankle base may be selected from a range of standardised injection-moulded ankle bases each having different lower face angles so that variation in heel height can be accommodated.The full range of ankle bases can be produced in a single mould, pads defining the desired angle for the lower face of the ankle base being inserted into the mould before the moulding operation is carried out.
The ankle attachment member of Fig. 2 is formed with a plurality of recesses 60 disposed about the circumference of a circle to receive the teeth 47 of the disc 46. It will be noted that the ankle attachment member has eighteen recesses at equal angular spacings of 20 and the top face of the disc 46 has six teeth at angular spacings of 20 . The ankle base 42 is formed with sixteen sockets 61 disposed at equal angular spacings of 22.5 and the disc 46 is formed on its lower face with eight teeth 48 at angular spacings of 45". This differential spacing of the teeth on the upper and lower faces of the disc 46 enables the angular position of the disc 46- z relative to the ankle adaptor 38 and the angular position of the ankle base 42 relative to the disc to be combined so that the foot 14 assumes any one of a large range of closely spaced angular positions relative to the anterior-posterior plane of the leg. The disc 46 is firmly held in position by the bolt 24 and the insert 39, and engagement of the teeth 47, 48 in their respective sockets 60 and 61 positively locates the foot 14 at a desired toeout angle. The teeth provide a relatively large bearing surface well spaced from the bolt 48 and therefore in a good position to resist turning forces on the foot 14.
Claims (14)
1. A method of making an artificial leg which comprises:
providing a thigh member having a stump socket at its upper end supported on struts from a knee joint member;
providing a plurality of preformed endoskeletal shin members each having an identical knee support member at its upper end, an identical ankle attachment member at its lower end, a shin tube rigidly connecting the knee support member and the ankle attachment member and a generally tubular cosmesis of cellular plastics material moulded onto the shin tube between the knee support member and the ankle attachment member, the shin tubes differing in length within a permitted range of length values;
forming a pivoted knee joint in which load is transmitted from the knee joint member to the knee support member of a selected one of the shin members of a length; and
connecting a foot to the ankle attachment member.
2. A method according to Claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
moulding a plurality of generally tubular socket blanks from sheet plastics material, the blanks having adjoining unconnected edges defining a vertical split in the socket blank;
fitting a selected one of the socket blanks to the stump and cutting the adjoining edges so that the socket blank fits around the stump with the cut edges abutting;
fastening the cut edges to form the socket; and fastening the socket to the struts.
3. A method according to Claim 2, wherein the cut edges are fastened by riveting to them an overlying strip of plastics material.
4. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the endoskeletal shin members are formed by securing a knee support member and an ankle attachment member to opposed ends of a shin tube, placing the assembly in a mould internally shaped to simulate the shin portion of a leg and introducing into the mould a resin composition which foams and cures to a cellular plastics material.
5. A method according to Claim 4, wherein the knee support member and the ankle attachment member are injected in a moulded glass reinforced plastics material.
6. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the knee joint member and the knee support member are interconnected by a transversely directed pivot.
7. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein a SACH foot is connected to the angle attachment member.
8. A method according to any of Claims 1 to 6, wherein a uniaxial foot is connected to the ankle attachment member.
9. A method according to Claim 8, wherein the uniaxial foot has a keel and an ankle base pivoted to the keel and attached to the ankle attachment member, the ankle base being selected from a range of similar ankle bases differing in the angle which the lower face thereof makes with the top face.
10. A method according to Claim 7, 8 or 9, wherein a disc is sandwiched between the ankle attachment member and the foot, the disc having teeth projecting from its upper and lower faces and locating in recesses in the ankle attachment member and the foot whereby the foot is located in a fixed predetermined angular position relative to the leg.
11. A method according to Claim 10, wherein the angular spacing of the teeth on the upper face of the disc differs from the angular spacing between the teeth on the lower face of the disc so that close adjustment can be made of the angular position of the foot relative to the leg.
12. A method of making an artificial leg substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
13. An artificial leg having a thigh member and a shin member substantially as described with reference to and as illustrated in
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings and either having a SACH foot or having a uniaxial foot.
14. An artificial leg according to Claim 12, having a uniaxial foot substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Priority Applications (5)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB8023308A GB2080114B (en) | 1980-07-16 | 1980-07-16 | Method of making an artificial leg |
| DE19813127897 DE3127897A1 (en) | 1980-07-16 | 1981-07-15 | "METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LEG PROSTHESIS AND LEG PROSTHESES PRODUCED BY THIS PROCESS" |
| FR8113900A FR2486797A1 (en) | 1980-07-16 | 1981-07-16 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ARTIFICIAL LEG AND ASSEMBLY OF A TIBIAL SEGMENT AND AN ARTIFICIAL LEG FOOT |
| US06/283,865 US4395783A (en) | 1980-07-16 | 1981-07-16 | Method of making an artificial leg |
| JP11013081A JPS5745860A (en) | 1980-07-16 | 1981-07-16 | Manufacture of artificial leg and assembly for artificial leg |
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB8023308A GB2080114B (en) | 1980-07-16 | 1980-07-16 | Method of making an artificial leg |
Publications (2)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| GB2080114A true GB2080114A (en) | 1982-02-03 |
| GB2080114B GB2080114B (en) | 1984-03-14 |
Family
ID=10514821
Family Applications (1)
| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB8023308A Expired GB2080114B (en) | 1980-07-16 | 1980-07-16 | Method of making an artificial leg |
Country Status (2)
| Country | Link |
|---|---|
| JP (1) | JPS5745860A (en) |
| GB (1) | GB2080114B (en) |
Cited By (19)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP0068658A2 (en) * | 1981-06-09 | 1983-01-05 | J.E. HANGER & COMPANY LIMITED | Knee joint for artificial legs |
| EP0167727A2 (en) * | 1984-04-19 | 1986-01-15 | Teufel, Wilhelm Julius | Artificial knee joint |
| EP0205785A1 (en) * | 1985-05-28 | 1986-12-30 | Otto Bock Orthopädische Industrie Besitz- und Verwaltungs-Kommanditgesellschaft | Locking device for knee joint |
| EP0418420A1 (en) * | 1989-09-22 | 1991-03-27 | IPOS GmbH & CO. KG. | Process for the production of an above-knee prosthesis |
| WO2014153244A1 (en) * | 2013-03-14 | 2014-09-25 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making and using same |
| US8978224B2 (en) | 2011-11-12 | 2015-03-17 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making same |
| US20150168943A1 (en) * | 2013-12-16 | 2015-06-18 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Method and system for assembly of a modular prosthetic socket based on residual limb metrics |
| US9468542B2 (en) | 2013-06-21 | 2016-10-18 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Prosthetic socket and socket liner with moisture management capability |
| US9474633B2 (en) | 2014-05-05 | 2016-10-25 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Alignable coupling assembly for connecting two prosthetic limb components |
| US9962273B2 (en) | 2015-05-13 | 2018-05-08 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US10172728B2 (en) | 2015-11-25 | 2019-01-08 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Transtibial prosthetic socket with textile jacket |
| US10206795B2 (en) | 2015-07-27 | 2019-02-19 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Prosthetic support socket for an osseointegrated femoral abutment |
| US10245775B2 (en) | 2014-06-04 | 2019-04-02 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Method and apparatus for transferring a digital profile of a residual limb to a prosthetic socket strut |
| US10426640B2 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2019-10-01 | Ossur Hf | Adjustable socket system |
| US10543112B2 (en) | 2012-06-28 | 2020-01-28 | Ossur Hf | Adjustable prosthetic limb system |
| US10806607B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2020-10-20 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US10940028B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2021-03-09 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US11419740B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2022-08-23 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US11642233B2 (en) | 2020-09-04 | 2023-05-09 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Interchangeable distal end for a prosthetic socket system |
-
1980
- 1980-07-16 GB GB8023308A patent/GB2080114B/en not_active Expired
-
1981
- 1981-07-16 JP JP11013081A patent/JPS5745860A/en active Pending
Cited By (33)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP0068658A2 (en) * | 1981-06-09 | 1983-01-05 | J.E. HANGER & COMPANY LIMITED | Knee joint for artificial legs |
| EP0068658A3 (en) * | 1981-06-09 | 1983-02-16 | J.E. Hanger & Company Limited | Knee joint for artificial limbs |
| EP0167727A3 (en) * | 1984-04-19 | 1987-04-15 | Teufel, Wilhelm Julius | Artificial knee joint |
| EP0167727A2 (en) * | 1984-04-19 | 1986-01-15 | Teufel, Wilhelm Julius | Artificial knee joint |
| EP0205785A1 (en) * | 1985-05-28 | 1986-12-30 | Otto Bock Orthopädische Industrie Besitz- und Verwaltungs-Kommanditgesellschaft | Locking device for knee joint |
| EP0418420A1 (en) * | 1989-09-22 | 1991-03-27 | IPOS GmbH & CO. KG. | Process for the production of an above-knee prosthesis |
| US10426640B2 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2019-10-01 | Ossur Hf | Adjustable socket system |
| US11351044B2 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2022-06-07 | Ossur Hf | Adjustable socket system |
| US8978224B2 (en) | 2011-11-12 | 2015-03-17 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making same |
| US9044349B2 (en) | 2011-11-12 | 2015-06-02 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making same |
| US9468543B2 (en) | 2011-11-12 | 2016-10-18 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making same |
| US9549828B2 (en) | 2011-11-12 | 2017-01-24 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making same |
| US10543112B2 (en) | 2012-06-28 | 2020-01-28 | Ossur Hf | Adjustable prosthetic limb system |
| US11844710B2 (en) | 2012-06-28 | 2023-12-19 | Ossur Hf | Adjustable prosthetic limb system |
| US11246724B2 (en) | 2012-06-28 | 2022-02-15 | Ossur Hf | Adjustable prosthetic limb system |
| WO2014153244A1 (en) * | 2013-03-14 | 2014-09-25 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making and using same |
| US9468542B2 (en) | 2013-06-21 | 2016-10-18 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Prosthetic socket and socket liner with moisture management capability |
| US9980779B2 (en) | 2013-12-16 | 2018-05-29 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Method and system for assembly of a modular prosthetic socket based on residual limb metrics |
| US10251710B2 (en) | 2013-12-16 | 2019-04-09 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Method and system for assembly of a modular prosthetic socket based on residual limb metrics |
| US20150168943A1 (en) * | 2013-12-16 | 2015-06-18 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Method and system for assembly of a modular prosthetic socket based on residual limb metrics |
| US9474633B2 (en) | 2014-05-05 | 2016-10-25 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Alignable coupling assembly for connecting two prosthetic limb components |
| US10245775B2 (en) | 2014-06-04 | 2019-04-02 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Method and apparatus for transferring a digital profile of a residual limb to a prosthetic socket strut |
| US10918503B2 (en) | 2015-05-13 | 2021-02-16 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US9962273B2 (en) | 2015-05-13 | 2018-05-08 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US10206795B2 (en) | 2015-07-27 | 2019-02-19 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Prosthetic support socket for an osseointegrated femoral abutment |
| US10179056B2 (en) | 2015-11-25 | 2019-01-15 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Transfemoral prosthetic socket with a textile-based cover and intra-frame force applicators |
| US10172728B2 (en) | 2015-11-25 | 2019-01-08 | Lim Innovations, Inc. | Transtibial prosthetic socket with textile jacket |
| US10806607B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2020-10-20 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US10940028B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2021-03-09 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US10993819B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2021-05-04 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US11419740B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2022-08-23 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US11801154B2 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2023-10-31 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Adjustable socket system |
| US11642233B2 (en) | 2020-09-04 | 2023-05-09 | Ossur Iceland Ehf | Interchangeable distal end for a prosthetic socket system |
Also Published As
| Publication number | Publication date |
|---|---|
| JPS5745860A (en) | 1982-03-16 |
| GB2080114B (en) | 1984-03-14 |
Similar Documents
| Publication | Publication Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| US4395783A (en) | Method of making an artificial leg | |
| GB2080114A (en) | Method of making an artificial leg | |
| US5336270A (en) | Continuous one-piece prosthesis | |
| US5695526A (en) | One-piece mechanically differentiated prosthetic foot and associated ankle joint with syme modification | |
| US5482513A (en) | Ankle joint with dedicated transverse rotator | |
| US5464441A (en) | Prosthetic leg | |
| US4822363A (en) | Modular composite prosthetic foot and leg | |
| US5776205A (en) | Split foot prosthesis | |
| US5376141A (en) | Low-profile symes foot prosthesis | |
| EP1332737B1 (en) | Foot prothesis having cushioned ankle | |
| US5549714A (en) | Symes foot prosthesis | |
| US5976191A (en) | Foot prosthesis having curved forefoot | |
| US4911724A (en) | Energy responsive prosthetic leg | |
| US20150313730A1 (en) | Modular prosthetic sockets and methods for making same | |
| EP0691832A1 (en) | Prosthetic foot | |
| GB2098072A (en) | Improved endo-skeletal artificial limb | |
| US5993487A (en) | Integrated keel-pylon prosthesis | |
| Sam et al. | The'shape&roll'prosthetic foot: I. Design and development of appropriate technology for low-income countries | |
| US2450728A (en) | Linkage for artificial legs | |
| GB2103490A (en) | Artificial limb socket | |
| GB2084025A (en) | Improved endo-skeletal artificial limb | |
| GB2139089A (en) | Weight-bearing orthosis | |
| Wilson et al. | Ultra-light prostheses for below-knee amputees | |
| GB2080115A (en) | Shin member and foot assembly for artificial leg | |
| EP0207758A2 (en) | Method for forming prostheses or orthoses |
Legal Events
| Date | Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCNP | Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee |