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US 11,298,581 B2Granted
Therapeutic walking trainer
Assigneemedica-Medizintechnik GmbH
InventorOtto Hoebel
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Abstract
A therapeutic walking trainer with a foot receiving portion for receiving at least a sub-region the forefoot of a user or for forming a connection with a toe of a shoe, having at least one main carrier which can be displaced in and/or counter to an adjustment direction, and with an actively and/or passively operable adjustment unit for the relative adjustment, oriented essentially perpendicular to the adjustment direction, of the foot receiving portion relative to the at least one main carrier.
Claims12
A therapeutic walking trainer comprising:
- a foot receiving portion for receiving at least a sub-region of a of a user or for forming a connection with a toe of a shoe;
- at least one main carrier that is adapted to be displaced in and/or counter to an adjustment direction;
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- an actively and/or passively operable adjustment unit for the adjustment of the foot receiving portion between a raised position and a lowered position relative to the at least one main carrier,
- wherein a top surface of the at least one main carrier, that faces the foot receiving portion, is a tread surface, and
- wherein, when the foot receiving portion is in the lowered position, a portion of the foot or the shoe of the user directly contacts and treads on the tread surface, and wherein, when the foot receiving portion is in the raised position, the portion of the foot or the shoe of the user is lifted off the tread surface, so as to be spaced apart from the tread surface;
- wherein the portion of the foot or the shoe of the user, that either directly contacts and treads on the tread surface or is spaced apart from the tread surface, is the forefoot of the user or the toe of the shoe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.