JP2004332125A - Knee supporter - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a knee supporter properly tightening the peripheral part of the patella of a wearer without bringing pressure on the patella. <P>SOLUTION: The knee supporter comprises a supporter main body having a winding cloth provided with a pair of upper and lower projections at both the right and left sides thereof, and a covering cloth attached to the back side of the supporter main body. The covering cloth is put around the petalla so as to directly come in contact with the petalla, and the winding cloth is wound around the petalla over the covering cloth to be fixed to the periphery of the petalla. The knee supporter is put on through the following procedures: putting the covering cloth around the petella part; fixedly engaging the cloth via a covering cloth engaging means; and fixedly engaging the upper side projections of the winding cloth to each other at the upper side of the petalla, and the lower side projections of the winding cloth to each other at the lower side of the petalla. The knee supporter is so made that the covering cloth covers the petalla without bringing heavy pressure thereon to effectively keep the knee warm, and that the joint portion can be tightly fixed without putting pressure on the patella because the winding cloth is fixed in such a state as to expose the patella. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a knee supporter for alleviating pain in a knee, and more particularly to a knee supporter for appropriately tightening a knee and keeping a knee head warm.
[0002]
[Prior art]
As shown in FIG. 6, one example of a conventional knee supporter is a knee back cloth piece 120 made of a thin, highly air-permeable and soft cloth, and joined to the left and right side portions of the knee back cloth piece 120 so as to be left and right. The supporter body 110 includes an extended wound cloth piece 121, and a cover cloth piece 300 having one end attached to one of the right and left sides of the knee back cloth piece 120 of the supporter body 110. (For example, see Patent Document 1). The wrapping cloth piece 21 of the supporter is provided with a pair of upper and lower projecting pieces 122a, 122b which are vertically separated and form notches 123, 123 between the pair of projecting pieces 122a, 122b. ing.
[0003]
At the time of wearing, the above-mentioned supporter arranges the cloth piece 120 for the back of the knee on the back of the leg and engages the protruding pieces 122a and 122b at the upper and lower parts of the knee so that the knee can be seen through the notches 123 and 123. Thereafter, the covering cloth 300 covers the kneecap and is engaged with the supporter body 110. In this supporter, hook-shaped hook-and-loop fasteners are attached to the back of the ends of a pair of right and left upper and lower projecting pieces 122a and 122b, as shown in FIG. Side.
This supporter is characterized in that the effect of tightening and fixing can be promoted by the covering cloth piece 300, slippage is prevented, and the supporter can be mounted cool in summer.
[0004]
[Patent Document 1]
JP, 2002-345865, A
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, the conventional supporter uniformly compresses the kneecap and its surroundings when tightened and fixed with a covering cloth, and is not suitable for a case where only the kneecap periphery is desired to be compressed due to, for example, a pain in the kneecap. In addition, in the case where pain occurs due to cooling of the knee in winter or cooling, the function of warming the knee and relieving the pain has not been sufficient.
[0006]
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a knee supporter that appropriately tightens the periphery of the kneecap without compressing the kneecap. It is another object of the present invention to provide a knee supporter that warms the knee and alleviates pain in the knee.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The knee supporter of the present invention includes a supporter body having a wound cloth piece provided with a pair of upper and lower projecting pieces on both left and right sides, and a cover cloth piece attached to the back side of the supporter body. The piece of cloth is wound in direct contact with the kneecap, and is then wound over the piece of cloth covering the wound piece of cloth and secured around the kneecap.
[0008]
In the knee support of the present invention, the covering cloth is wrapped around the knee head, and the covering cloth is engaged and fixed by the covering cloth engaging means. The supporter is mounted by engaging and fixing the lower side, respectively. This knee supporter covers the kneecap without strongly pressing the kneecap, contributing to heat retention, and the wrapping cloth piece can be fixed by looking into the kneecap, so tighten and fix the joint part without pressing the kneecap be able to.
[0009]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
The knee supporter of the present invention is a knee supporter composed of a supporter body made of stretchable soft fabric, and a covering cloth piece for a kneecap made of stretchable soft fabric, wherein the supporter body has a back of the knee, Left and right wrapping cloth pieces formed on the left and right sides of the back of the knee, extending left and right, and bifurcated vertically in the middle to form upper and lower projecting pieces. The wrapping cloth piece is provided with upper projecting piece engaging means for engaging the ends of the left and right upper projecting pieces, and lower projecting piece engaging means for engaging the ends of the left and right lower projecting pieces. , The covering cloth is attached to the back side of one of the left and right sides of the back of the knee, and the end of the covering cloth is detachable from the back near the other side of the back of the knee. The cover cloth piece engaging means which engages with the cover cloth is provided.
[0010]
The upper and lower projecting piece engaging means may enable the end of one wound cloth to be detachably engaged with the end surface of the other wound cloth. Thereby, the engagement position of the end of one wrapping cloth piece with the surface of the other end can be adjusted, and the tightening force can be adjusted.
[0011]
In another embodiment, the upper protrusion engaging means detachably engages an end of the upper protrusion of one wound cloth with an end surface of the upper protrusion of the other wound cloth. Preferably, the lower projecting piece engaging means attaches / detaches the end of the lower projecting piece of the other wound cloth to the end surface of the lower projecting piece of the one wound cloth. To engage as much as possible. For example, the left and right protruding pieces are reversed between the upper and lower protruding pieces so that the left lower protruding piece is the front side if the right upper protruding piece is the front side. At this time, a rotational stress is generated in an annular region around the kneecap so that the periphery of the kneecap can be effectively tightened and pressed, thus helping to alleviate knee joint pain.
[0012]
It is particularly preferable to use a hook-and-loop fastener for such upper and lower projecting piece engaging means, which can be detachably engaged, has a sufficiently high engaging strength, and has no knee compression strength when worn. It can be adjusted in stages. As described later, such a hook-and-loop fastener can be formed by attaching a hook hook-and-loop fastener to an end of one of the protruding pieces and using the end surface of the protruding piece as a loop fabric.
[0013]
In the knee support of the present invention, it is preferable that the wound cloth has a branch engaging means on the back surface in the vicinity of the bifurcated branch to be detachably engaged with the surface of the covering cloth. Here, the branch portion is a position where the upper protruding piece and the lower protruding piece branch off, and is the deepest portion of the notch formed between the protruding pieces. When the supporter has the branching portion engaging means, when mounting, the winding cloth piece can be covered and temporarily fixed to the cloth piece, so that the winding cloth piece can be easily wound. Can be prevented from shifting with respect to the covering cloth piece.
[0014]
The wrapping cloth piece is preferably such that the upper protruding piece is longer than the lower protruding piece, because it can be conveniently wound around the thigh above the knee joint, and in such a knee supporter, The side projection is adapted to be wound around the narrow shin below the knee joint.
[0015]
Further, the covering cloth piece engaging means and the branch portion engaging means may be hooks, snaps, or other such fasteners, but are particularly preferably hook-and-loop fasteners, and the covering cloth piece is attached to and detached from the wound cloth piece. It is possible to freely engage, and furthermore, moderate tension can be applied to alleviate or strengthen the compression on the kneecap to adjust appropriately according to the symptoms, and to appropriately adjust the heat retention.
[0016]
The supporter body can be formed from a thin elastic material having soft elasticity and rubber, but the surface is formed with a pile capable of engaging with the hook surface fasteners at the upper and lower protruding ends. Is preferred. The pile on the surface can be formed by pile-weaving the elastic cloth constituting the supporter body, or it can be formed by fixing another thin stretchable pile ground to the surface of the elastic cloth.
[0017]
The covering cloth is preferably made of a soft, stretchable, heat-insulating, thin stretchable fabric. If the covering piece is made of a heat-retaining material, the kneecap can be kept warm, which is effective for pain relief. If the covering cloth is made of stretchable fabric, it expands and contracts in accordance with the movement of the kneecap when the knee joint flexes and stretches, so it is easy to walk and exercise and the tightening force does not work more than necessary, and it does not particularly give pain to the kneecap, Further, even if the knee joint is bent and stretched, there is no gap between the covering cloth piece and the kneecap, so that cold air from the outside does not enter the warm knee. Furthermore, if the covering cloth is soft, it can be easily wound around the knee and the wearing feeling is good.
[0018]
It is preferable that a pile that can be engaged with the hook surface fastener is formed on the surface of the covering cloth piece, but this pile can be formed by making the stretchable fabric constituting the supporter body into a pile weave, Further, another thin stretchable pile fabric can be fixed to the surface of the stretchable fabric.
[0019]
The knee supporter of the present invention has a back portion of the supporter body, which is disposed on the back of the knee, and a flexible rigid reinforcing core material is provided at least in the vertical direction near the side of the back portion of the knee. It is preferable to fix one pair because the knee support can be effectively prevented from being turned up.
[0020]
As the reinforcing core material, a flat spring in which a coil spring is crushed in the lateral direction with respect to the axis is preferable. The bending of the knee joint at the time of wearing is smooth because the spring bends relatively easily within the flat surface of the spring, and the flat spring is used. Since it is difficult to bend in the direction away, the supporter can be prevented from rolling up.
[0021]
In the knee supporter of the present invention, a far-infrared ray generating material or a radioactive negative ion generating material can be included on the back surface of the covering cloth, and these generating materials warm the knee joint and improve blood circulation to alleviate pain in the knee. The effect is expected.
[0022]
【Example】
As shown in the developed front view of FIG. 1 and the developed back view of FIG. 2, the supporter body 1 includes a right wrapping piece 22 on a right side 21a and a left side 21b of the back 21 of the knee. And a left-hand wrapped cloth piece 25 are respectively formed.
[0023]
The right and left wrapping cloth pieces 22, 25 are formed with cutout portions 22c, 25c cut out from the ends, and are branched into upper projecting pieces 22a, 25a and lower projecting pieces 22b, 25b. . In this example, hook surface fasteners 23 and 26 are attached to the ends of the upper right projection 22a and the lower left projection 25b.
[0024]
Two coil bones are fixed to both sides 21a and 21b of the back part 21 of the knee, and the coil bone 4 is stitched around the periphery by applying an elongated piece of cloth from the back surface 29 side of the supporter body 2, for example. It can be inserted and fixed inside the bag.
[0025]
A fixed end 31a of the covering cloth 3 is sewn and fixed to the left side portion 21b of the supporter main body 1. The covering cloth piece 3 has a fixed end 31a fixed to the back of the knee 21 of the supporter main body 2, and a free end 31b having a hook surface fastener 32 attached to a front side 34 thereof. Correspondingly, a fixed loop surface fastener 33 is attached to the back surface 29 of the right side portion 21a of the knee back portion 21 of the supporter main body 1, and a hook surface fastener 32 on the free end side of the covering cloth piece 3 is provided. Can be engaged with the loop fastener 33 on the back surface side of the supporter main body 1.
[0026]
In this example, a negative ion generating print is formed on the back side 35 of the covering cloth piece 3 by using a material having weak radioactivity and capable of generating negative ions.
[0027]
The mounting of the knee supporter 1 of the present invention is performed in the order shown in FIGS. First, the supporter main body 2 is wound around the back of the knee with the covering cloth piece 3 applied to the kneecap, and the hook surface fastener 32 of the free end 31b of the covering cloth piece 3 and the loop surface fastener 33 of the back surface 29 of the supporter body 2 are formed. And fixed to the knee as shown in FIG.
[0028]
Next, as shown in FIG. 4, the hooked fasteners 23 at the branch portions of the wound cloth pieces 22 and 25 are covered and engaged with the surface 34 of the cloth piece 3 to temporarily fix the wound cloth pieces 22 and 25. The side protruding piece 25a is extended and pressed on the upper part of the kneecap, and the upper right protruding piece 22a is extended and overlapped on the upper left protruding piece 25a, and the hook surface fastener 23 of the upper right protruding piece 22a is connected to the upper left protruding piece 25a. To the surface of
[0029]
Finally, as shown in FIG. 5, the lower right side protruding piece 22b is extended and pressed to the lower part of the kneecap, and the lower left side protruding piece 25b is extended and superimposed on the lower right side protruding piece 22b to form a lower left side protruding piece. The knee supporter 1 is mounted by engaging the hook surface fastener 26 of the piece 25b with the surface of the lower right protruding piece 22ba.
[0030]
In this mounting example, the upper protruding pieces 22a and 25a are engaged first, and the lower protruding pieces 22b and 25b are engaged later. However, the lower protruding pieces 22b and 25b are engaged first and then the upper protruding pieces are engaged. The pieces 22a, 25a can also be engaged. The same pain relieving effect can be obtained even if the mounting order of the upper and lower protruding pieces is changed.
[0031]
【The invention's effect】
In the knee support of the present invention, the covering cloth piece is in direct contact with the kneecap to keep warm without compressing the kneecap, and the wound cloth piece is fixed around the kneecap from above the covering cloth piece, thereby damaging the kneecap. Even if it is, the knee joint can be relieved of pain by compressing and fixing only around the kneecap.
[0032]
In addition, the knee supporter of the present invention can press the periphery of the kneecap when the protrusion on the surface side at the time of engagement is reversed left and right between the upper protrusion and the lower protrusion. In addition, a sufficient pain relieving effect can be obtained without increasing the pressing force by the covering cloth.
[0033]
In the knee supporter of the present invention, if the wrapping cloth piece is provided on the back surface near the diverging part with the branching part engaging means that detachably engages with the surface of the covering cloth piece, the projection piece is not engaged. However, since the wound cloth piece can be temporarily fixed around the kneecap, the engagement of the protruding piece becomes easy, and when the knee supporter is used, the wound cloth piece is fixed to the covering cloth piece. Even if the knee joint is moved by exercise or the like, the wrapping cloth piece and the covering cloth piece do not slip out of alignment, and the knee supporter as a whole is less likely to slip.
[0034]
The knee supporter of the present invention can prevent the skirt portion of the supporter from being rolled up by fixing at least one pair of left and right flexible rigid reinforcing core members in the longitudinal direction near the side of the back of the knee of the supporter body. Since the reinforcing core has a restoring force that attempts to return the knee joint to an upright state, if a stress is applied to the knee joint in a direction other than the movable direction due to a fall or the like, the stress is reduced, and the knee joint is relieved. Further damage can be prevented.
[0035]
If a flat spring in which a coil spring is crushed in the lateral direction with respect to the axis is used as the reinforcing core material, the knee joint can be easily bent and is suitable for use during walking or exercise.
[0036]
When the upper lobe is longer than the lower lobe, the upper lobe is wound around the thigh above the knee joint, and the lower lobe is positioned below the knee joint. It is suitable for winding around the thinner shin.
[0037]
When hook-and-loop fasteners are used for various kinds of engagement means in the knee supporter of the present invention, detachable engagement is possible, and the engagement strength can be sufficiently increased, so that the knee supporter can exhibit a pain relieving effect. The compression strength of the knee can be adjusted steplessly, so that the compression force of the knee supporter can be finely adjusted, and the knee support can be shared by persons having different knee joint thicknesses.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a front view of a knee support according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a rear view of the knee support according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the knee supporter according to the embodiment of the present invention during mounting.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the knee support according to the embodiment of the present invention while the knee support is being worn;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view in which the mounting of the knee supporter according to the embodiment of the present invention is completed.
FIG. 6 is a front view (A) and a rear view (B) of a conventional knee supporter.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Knee supporter 2 Supporter main body 21 Knee back part 22 Right winding cloth piece 22a Right upper protruding piece 22b Right lower protruding piece 25 Left winding cloth piece 25a Left upper protruding piece 25b Left lower protruding piece 3 Covering cloth piece 4 Coil bone

Claims (7)

A knee supporter composed of a supporter body made of stretchable soft fabric and a covering cloth piece for a kneecap made of stretchable soft fabric,
A supporter body is formed on the back of the knee and the left and right sides of the back of the knee, and extends left and right and is bifurcated vertically in the middle to form upper and lower projecting pieces. With a piece of cloth,
The wrapping cloth piece is provided with upper projecting piece engaging means for engaging the ends of the left and right upper projecting pieces, and lower projecting piece engaging means for engaging the ends of the left and right lower projecting pieces. ,
The covering cloth is attached to the back surface of one of the left and right sides of the back of the knee, and the end of the covering cloth is detachably attached to the back surface near the other side of the back of the knee. A knee supporter provided with a covering cloth piece engaging means for engaging. The upper projecting piece engaging means detachably engages the end of the upper projecting piece of one of the wound cloth pieces with the end surface of the upper projecting piece of the other wound cloth piece, and the lower projecting piece engaging means. Wherein the end of the lower protruding piece of the other winding cloth piece is detachably engaged with the end surface of the lower protruding piece of the one winding cloth piece. The knee support described. The knee supporter according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the wound cloth has a branch engaging means on the back surface near the bifurcated branch, the branch being engaged with the surface of the covering cloth in a detachable manner. The knee supporter according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein at least a pair of left and right flexible rigid reinforcing members are fixed in the vertical direction near the side of the back of the knee of the supporter body. The knee supporter according to claim 4, wherein the reinforcing core member is a flat spring obtained by crushing the coil spring in a direction transverse to the axis. The knee supporter according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein an upper protruding piece of the wound cloth piece is longer than a lower protruded piece of the wound cloth piece. The knee support according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the upper and lower projection engaging means are hook-and-loop fasteners.

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