The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Sergey Samorezov

Brian L Davis

William A Smith

Antonie J Van Den Bogert

Jianguo Cheng

A spill protection basin for preventing spilling overflow fluid from a surgical site of a patient. The basin includes a perimeter wall defining an inner volume. A suction port is formed in the perimeter wall and adjacent to a bottom end thereof. The suction port is configured to permit drawing fluid from the inner volume when suction is applied thereto.

Spill protection basin for surgeries

An energy-storing prosthetic knee includes an upper leg structure and a lower leg structure hingedly connected to the upper leg structure. The lower and upper leg structures move pivotally relative to one another. A fluid actuator is operatively connected to the upper and lower leg structures such that relative pivotal movement of the upper and lower leg structures causes a fluid to flow in a predetermined manner within the fluid actuator. At least two controllable variable fluid flow resisting devices, an accumulator, and a control system are also provided. The control system is actuable to cause storage of the fluid energy for a predetermined length of time and release of the fluid energy at a predetermined time during the gait cycle. Both the storage and release of the fluid energy are variable by action of the control system without physical modification of other components of the prosthetic knee.

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Highland Hts., OH, United States of America

Sergey Samorezov