Knee brace and leg brace
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsEisuke Aoki, Takahiro Takeda, Tomio Ikeda, Tadashi Odashima
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Abstract
A knee brace includes a thigh fixing part, a shank fixing part, an outer leg joint that couples the thigh fixing part with the shank fixing part, and an inner leg joint that couples the thigh fixing part with the shank fixing part. When the wearer P flexes his/her knee joint, a lower arm is rotated with respect to an upper arm along with a rotation fulcrum shaft sliding in a long groove and a cam shaft sliding in a cam groove. When the outer leg joint and the inner leg joint are extended, the lower arm of the outer leg joint is configured to be moved relatively forward with respect to the lower arm of the inner leg joint.
Claims11
A knee brace for a knee osteoarthritis patient, the knee brace comprising:
- a thigh fixing part that is attached to a thigh of a patient;
- a shank fixing part that is attached to a shank of the patient;
- an outer leg joint that couples the thigh fixing part with the shank fixing part, is arranged in an outer leg side of a knee joint of the patient, and can be flexed;
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- an inner leg joint that couples the thigh fixing part with the shank fixing part, is arranged in an inner leg side of the knee joint of the patient, and can be flexed, wherein
- each of the outer leg joint and the inner leg joint includes an upper arm that is provided along a side part of the thigh and a lower arm that is provided along a side part of the shank,
- the upper arm and the lower arm are coupled to each other by a coupling part that is provided in a side part of the knee joint, and
- the lower arm of the outer leg joint is configured to be moved forward relative to the lower arm of the inner leg joint when the outer leg joint and the inner leg joint are extended.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.