ARTIFICIAL FOOT Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has elastic inlays, flexible coating in the cavity of which a casing is mounted on the elastic inlay having cantilever of U-shaped cross-section and supporting strip movable along it. Cantilever bottom part is set in parallel to the elastic inlay surface. The supporting strip is conjugated with the bottom by its upper part and has two trunnions threadedly mounted on its lateral planes and passing via slots arranged in cantilever walls on the line the support strip moves. One of trunnions has fixing head engageable with instrument on internal side of the artificial foot on the coating of which at least one hole is produced in this zone to enable access to the fixing head. EFFECT: improved operation effectiveness in adjusting foot rigidity. 5 dwg