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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2018
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (US);
Ronald J Triolo, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Kevin M Foglyano, Lakewood, OH (US);
The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A walker for maintaining balance and stability has extendable and retractable struts positioned within tubular legs for leveling the walker when climbing stairs, a curb or an incline. The struts on each side of the walker are connected to one another via cables which coordinate the motion of the struts so that when the front struts retract within their respective tubular legs the rear struts extend proportionally and vice versa. The cables may be arranged using pulleys mounted within the tubular legs or Bowden cables may be used within each of the tubular legs. User actuated clutches engage the cables to arrest the motion of the struts and temporarily fix them in a desired configuration.