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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2018
College Park Industries, Inc., Warren, MI (US);
Carlos Humberto Martinez-Luna, Boylston, MA (US);
Michael Alfred Delph, II, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US);
Taylor Raven Duckworth, Merrimack, NH (US);
Todd Richard Farrell, Waltham, MA (US);
Thane Robert Hunt, Colchester, CT (US);
Craig Malone Kelly, Dracut, MA (US);
Kevin Edward Keough, Sharon, MA (US);
Carlton Winslow King, Westfield, MA (US);
Benjamin Douglas Pulver, Naples, NY (US);
Todd William Roberts, Saint Inigoes, MD (US);
Benjamin Edward McDonald, Holliston, MA (US);
College Park Industries, Inc., Warren, MI (US);
Abstract
A prosthetic finger includes a main body and a terminal gripper at an end of the main body for enabling fine-motor grasping skills. The terminal gripper has at least two tongs movable relative to one another. The prosthetic finger includes a gripping mode and a flexion mode. In the gripping mode, the tongs of the terminal gripper are able to move relative to one another while the main body is not able to flex, and in the flexion mode, the main body is able to flex while the at two tongs is not able to move relative to one another.