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US 10,588,760 B2Granted
Prosthetic foot, system of a prosthetic foot and a shoe, and method for adapting the heel height of a prosthetic foot
AssigneeOttobock SE & Co. Kgaa
InventorsHermann Meyer, Sven Kaltenborn, Steffen Althaus
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Abstract
A prosthetic foot comprising a foot part, a proximal connecting member which is swiveled to the foot part and an adjustment device with which the foot part can be adjusted relative to the connecting member, and at least one position sensor associated with the adjustment device and being coupled to a signal generating element.
Claims25
A prosthetic foot, comprising:
- a foot part;
- a proximal connection member connected tiltably to the foot part;
- an output device;
- an adjustment device with which the foot part can be adjusted relative to the connection member, the adjustment device including at least one position sensor, the at least one position sensor being coupled to the output device, the adjustment device being operable without the use of a motor;
- wherein the output device generates an output which includes an acoustic signal as a function of a position signal received from the at least one position sensor, the acoustic signal informing a user of the prosthetic foot about a position of the foot part, the acoustic signal generated by a voice generating device and including an announcement about a heel height level of the foot part.
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A prosthetic foot, comprising:
- a foot part;
- a proximal connection member connected to the foot part;
- an output device;
- an adjustment device to adjust the foot part relative to the connection member without the use of a motor, the adjustment device including at least one position sensor, the at least one position sensor being coupled to the output device, the at least one sensor to detect an adjusted position of the foot part relative to the proximal connection member and generate a position signal, and the output device to communicate an acoustic output to a user confirming, based on the position signal, that a heel height level for the foot part has been reached, the acoustic output generated by a voice generating device.
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A prosthetic foot, comprising:
- a foot part;
- a proximal connection member connected tiltably to the foot part;
- an output device;
- an adjustment device with which the foot part can be adjusted relative to the connection member, the adjustment device including at least one position sensor, the at least one position sensor being coupled to the output device, the adjustment device being operable without the use of a motor;
- wherein the output device generates an acoustic signal as a function of a position signal received from the at least one position sensor, the acoustic signal informing a user of the prosthetic foot about a position of the foot part, the acoustic signal including a different tone for each heel height level of the foot part.
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A prosthetic foot, comprising:
- a foot part;
- a proximal connection member connected tiltably to the foot part;
- an output device;
- an adjustment device with which the foot part can be adjusted relative to the connection member, the adjustment device including at least one position sensor, the at least one position sensor being coupled to the output device, the adjustment device being operable without the use of a motor;
- wherein the output device generates an acoustic signal as a function of a position signal received from the at least one position sensor, the acoustic signal including at least one of different pitch levels, signal patterns, or signal sequences assigned to specific heel height levels of the foot part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.