KNEE UNIT OF ORTHOPEDIC APPARATUS FOR LOWER LIMB Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, orthesis, orthetics. SUBSTANCE: knee unit of orthopedic apparatus for lower limb contains axis, socket and nut. Head of shin splint comes into head of thigh splint of forked type, socket is put upon axis being a landing place for head of shin splint, hinge axis has central thread port to strengthen the cam of synchronization detector of electronic movement corrector co-axially to knee hinge. Moreover, shin and thigh splints have special regulating platforms with two horizontal grooves at one side to change if necessary mutual head positions of knee hinge and shin and thigh splints ranged 0-20 mm. To provide improved fixation of desired positions of corresponding splints and heads of knee hinge coordinated channeling is designed upon combinable parts of both elements and also bolt joint that consists of screws and nuts. Moreover, channeling is parallel to splint axes and perpendicular to grooves, screws come through ports in splint heads of knee hinge and through grooves in regulating splint platforms followed by their clamping through a disk by nuts. EFFECT: higher accuracy and safety. 4 cl, 4 dwg