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US 7,797,072 B2Granted
Prosthetic limb with replaceable fairing
AssigneeBespoke Innovations, Inc.
InventorScott Summit
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Abstract
A prosthetic limb has an outer surface that is a mirror image of an intact limb. The intact limb is scanned and the surface data is manipulated to create a virtual mirror image. The end of the amputated limb is also scanned to obtain socket data. A virtual limb is designed using a computer program based upon the mirror image and end of the amputated limb data. The computer program is also used to design a removable fairing that provides color and texture to the prosthetic limb.
Claims24
A method for creating a prosthetic limb comprising:
- obtaining surface data for an intact limb;
- creating a prosthetic limb design having an outer surface that corresponds to a mirror image of the surface data;
- producing limb fabrication data and fairing fabrication data from the prosthetic limb design;
- using the limb fabrication data, fusing a plurality of material particles together to form the prosthetic limb;
- and
- using the fairing fabrication data to fabricate a fairing, an inner surface of the fairing fitting around the outer surface of the prosthetic limb that corresponds to the mirror image of the surface data.
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A method for creating a prosthetic limb comprising:
- obtaining surface data for an intact limb;
- creating a prosthetic limb design having an outer surface that corresponds to a mirror image of the surface data;
- producing limb fabrication data and fairing fabrication data from the prosthetic limb design;
- using the limb fabrication data, fusing a plurality of material particles together to form a plurality of layers that are fused to form the prosthetic limb;
- and
- using the fairing fabrication data to fabricate multiple interchangeable fairings, an inner surface of the fairings fitting around the outer surface of the prosthetic limb that corresponds to a mirror image of the surface data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.