US 2010/0076361 A1Published application

Drop foot device

AssigneeOssur Europe B.V.

InventorsLambertus Joseph Martinus KRUIJSEN, Günter Gneiting

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Abstract

The invention relates to assembly of an accessory and a shoe for providing support to a foot-drop affected foot relative to a lower leg belonging to the foot such that the loot is prevented from dropping downwards relative to the lower leg when the foot is raised by the lower from a supporting surface, the accessory being provided with a first attachment member for attachment of the accessory to the lower leg, a second attachment member for attachment of the accessory to an upper side of the shoe and a connecting body joining together the first attachment member and the second attachment member, wherein the second attachment member is provided with an attachment plate which, in use, is positioned under an upper part of the shoe. The invention also relates to the accessory of the assembly.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method for compensating functional disabilities of the foot of a wearer, comprising:

placing a shoe on a wearer, the shoe having a toe portion, a heel portion and an instep portion, the instep portion having on its upper side an upper closure that when open enables a foot to be inserted into the shoe and when closed for maintaining the shoe on a foot;
attaching a first attachment member about a lower leg of the wearer, the first attachment member having a first connecting member flexibly extending from the first attachment member and directed toward the foot;
attaching a second attachment member in engagement with a shoe placed over the wearer's foot, the second attachment member placed in engagement with the shoe in the area of the instep of the foot, the second attachment having a second attachment member flexibly extending therefrom and directed toward the lower leg of the wearer;
coupling the first and second connecting members via first and second mutually coacting coupling elements, respectively, mounted on end portions of the first and second connecting members, such that the flexible connecting member extends at an acute angle from the lower leg of the wearer at a point above the joint of a leg and foot to a point forward of the leg at the instep of the foot.

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A device for compensating functional disabilities of the foot of a wearer for use in combination with a shoe on a wearer, the shoe having a toe portion, a heel portion and an instep portion, the instep portion having on its upper side an upper closure that when open enables a foot to be inserted into the shoe and when closed for maintaining the shoe on a foot, the device comprising:

a first attachment member arranged for attachment about a lower leg of a wearer, the first attachment member having a flexible attachment strap adapted to flexibly wrap about the entirety of a lower leg, and a first connecting member having a first end secured to the attachment strap and a second end flexibly extending from the attachment strap and directed toward the foot, the second end having a first coupling element attached thereto;
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a second attachment member arranged for engagement with a shoe placed over a wearer's foot in the area of the instep of the foot, the second attachment having a second attachment member including a second end flexibly extending therefrom and directed toward the lower leg of the wearer and having a second coupling element attached thereto;
wherein the first and second connecting members couple via the first and second mutually coacting coupling elements such that the first and second connecting members combine to extend at an acute angle from a lower leg of the wearer at a point above the joint of a leg and foot to a point forward of the leg at the instep of a foot.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/577,808Filed 13 Oct 2009
Priority: 6 May 2002
Published: 25 Mar 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A61F 5/0113
For the feet or ankles: drop-foot appliances
Y10S 482/907
Exercise devices: stretching
A61F
Filters implantable into blood vessels
Y10S
Technical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests

Family

Application10/980,975Continuation · filed 3 Nov 2004
Application12/577,808Continuation
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