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US 11,806,254 B2Granted
Prosthesis suspension liner sealing cap and prosthesis suspension system
AssigneeBlatchford Products Limited
InventorsJoseph Ronald McCarthy, Alan McDougall, Ana Isabel Gallego Murillo
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Abstract
A prosthesis suspension system comprises a socket for receiving a residual limb, a locking liner having a locking pin for attaching the liner to the socket and a sealing cap disposed between the locking line and the socket. The system further comprises a gap between a skirt of the sealing cap and an interior wall of the socket in which the skirt of the sealing cap is able to move between first and second positions.
Claims10
A prosthesis liner system comprising:
- a porous prosthesis liner having a perforated distal end, and
- a valve for said porous prosthesis liner, the valve comprising:
- a first portion comprising:
- means for locating the valve on the distal end of the porous prosthesis liner;
- and
- a frusto-conical shaped inner circumferential band having a first thickness;
- and
- a second portion extending from the first portion of the valve to a peripheral edge of the valve, the second portion comprising a frusto-conical shaped outer circumferential band having a second thickness which is not equal to the first thickness, thereby resulting one of the inner and outer circumferential bands being a thinner circumferential band and the other one of the inner and outer circumferential bands being a thicker circumferential band,
- wherein the thinner circumferential band is resiliently deformable and movable between:
- a first, at rest, position where the thinner circumferential band is adapted to abut a corresponding portion of the distal end of said porous prosthesis liner, and
- a second position where the thinner circumferential band is adapted to be spaced from said corresponding portion of the distal end of said porous prosthesis liner,
- wherein the means for locating the valve on a distal end of the said porous prosthesis liner comprises means for preventing lateral movement of the valve relative to the distal end of the said porous prosthesis liner.
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