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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gabor Lengyel, Altensteig, DE;
Assignee:
Biedermann Motech GmbH, VS-Schwenningen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
602 26 ; 602 16 ;
Abstract
A knee orthesis comprises a thigh attachment part, a lower leg attachment part and a joint hingedly connecting both parts, In order to improve the wearing characteristics the knee orthesis comprises a diagonal strut which connects an outer upper point of the thigh attachment part to an inner lower point of the thigh attachment part by extending around the front side of the thigh.