Cable knee brace system
OwnerDarren Fleminginventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
It is the object of the invention to provide a knee bracing system that bolsters the body's natural ligaments, and accommodates user's with different natural Q-angles, to reduce the knees proneness to injury or re-injury. The invention is a cable system that acts much like the body's natural way that resists the forces that cause excessive joint movement and injury to the ACL and or MCL. As the leg travels through the range of motion the cables provide external hyper extension, bending, and rotation support preventing the tibia bone from moving forward (hyper extending) or twisting (lateral rotation) and or laterally bending with respect to the femur.
Claims12
A knee brace comprising;
- a femoral plate;
- a first tibial plate hingidly coupled to the femoral plate;
- a second tibial plate rotationally coupled about an axis to the first tibial plate, wherein adjustment of the orientation of the second tibial plate relative to the first tibial plate about the axis creates a desired Q-angle
- a back plate;
- and
- a cable routed to each of the femoral plate, first tibial plate, second tibial plate, and back plate.
A knee brace comprising;
- a patellar plate;
- a femoral plate hingidly coupled to the patellar plate;
- a first tibial plate hingidly coupled to the patellar plate;
- a second tibial plate rotationally coupled about an axis to the first tibial plate
- a back plate;
- and
- a cable, the routing of the cable starting from the femoral plate extending downwardly toward the first tibial plate over a first anterior, distal surface of the femoral plate, continuing around the back plate, and further continuing around a first, anterior, distal surface of the first tibial plate and to and around a first, anterior, distal surface of the second tibial plate, the routing of the cable then continuing upwardly toward the femoral plate around a second, anterior, distal surface of the second tibial plate to a second anterior, distal surface of the first tibial plate, then continuing again around the back plate to cross with itself at a cross over point proximate a medial portion of the back plate, and the routing of the cable further continuing over a second anterior, distal surface of the femoral plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.