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US 12,616,600 B2Granted
Upper limb stabilizing apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Life Public Welfare Foundation
InventorSeungtak Kang
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Abstract
A stabilizing apparatus includes a Velcro portion arranged at an arm-fixing portion and a hand-fixing portion to attach or detach an arm-fixing portion and the arm-resting portion, and the hand-fixing portion and the hand-resting portion, respectively, to or from each other. Through this, the present disclosure maintains a supination posture of a forearm of an upper limb paralysis patient on a lab board, and the present disclosure deforms a wrist and fingers to a flexion posture instead of an extended posture when attaching Velcro.
Claims9
An upper-limb stabilizing apparatus, comprising:
- an arm-resting portion configured to support an arm;
- an arm-fixing portion configured to releasably secure the supported arm to the arm-resting portion;
- a hand-resting portion connected to the arm-resting portion and where-a configured to support a hand;
- a hand-fixing portion configured to releasably secure the hand to the hand-resting portion;
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- a fastening portion disposed at the arm-fixing portion and the hand-fixing portion and comprising a hook-and-loop fastener, the fastening portion being configured to attach or detach the arm-fixing portion to the arm-resting portion and the hand-fixing portion to the hand-resting portion, respectively,
- wherein the hand-fixing portion comprises a protruding first fixing portion and a second fixing portion, wherein the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion have a third angle therebetween.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.