MULTIFUNCTIONAL ACTIVE ARTIFICIAL ARM Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: artificial arm has shoulder-strap, actuating mechanisms, individual independent control pickups, connected motion control detectors, signal converters, angle pickups, power amplifiers, drive units, adders, functional converters, two end switches; all the units are connected functionally. Control detector are made in form of potentiometers. Device also has levers, armpiece, basic armpiece with carrier; the armpiece is provided with flexible unit and spring. Artificial arm also has lever which has to be analog of part of the arm, pass restrictor which controls compression of spring, and belt. EFFECT: improved precision of connected operations of artificial arm; improved reliability. 3 cl, 2 dwg