Orthopaedic device
AssigneeOttobock SE & Co. Kgaa
InventorsJonas BORNMANN, Mario KOPPE, Randolph MAUßNER, Lars Benjamin FINKE
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Abstract
The invention relates to an orthopaedic device having at least one wall which at least partly surrounds a stump or appendage when applied; —the wall has a variable inner periphery and forms an entry opening; —the wall is assigned an actuator, mounted on the orthopaedic device, for at least one actuating element which is mounted on the orthopaedic device and can be used to vary the inner periphery of the wall, wherein at least one sensor device is assigned to the mounting of the actuator and/or the actuating element in order to determine mounting forces of the actuator and/or the actuating element.
Claims14
An orthopaedic device, comprising:
- at least one wall which at least partially surrounds a stump or limb when fitted, wherein the wall has a variable inner periphery and forms an entry opening;
- an actuator mounted on the orthopaedic device for at least one actuation element which is mounted on the orthopaedic device, wherein the actuator is usable to vary the inner periphery of the at least one wall;
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- at least one sensor device is assigned to a mounting of the actuator and/or a mounting of the at least one actuation element, wherein the at least one sensor device determines mounting forces of the actuator and/or of the actuation element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.