Enveloping body with stiffening elements
AssigneeOttobock SE & Co. Kgaa
InventorsHendryk ENGELBART, Lars Benjamin FINKE
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Abstract
The invention relates to an enveloping body for at least partially enveloping a limb, having an enclosed volume and a connection for supplying and removing fluid to the volume or from the volume, wherein the enveloping body forms an inner circumference and an outer circumference; on the enveloping body reinforcement elements are arranged that are designed to be brought into contact as a result of the removal of fluid from the volume or to increase their contact with one another as a result of the removal of liquid.
Claims19
An enveloping body for at least partially enveloping a limb, the enveloping body having an enclosed volume and a connector for supplying and removing fluid to the volume and from the volume, the enveloping body forming an inner circumference and an outer circumference,
- wherein on the enveloping body, stiffening elements are arranged which are designed to be brought into contact as a result of removal of fluid from the volume or to strengthen their contact with one another as a result of removal of fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.