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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2002
Tracy C. Slemker, Clayton, OH (US);
Scott R. Schall, Englewood, OH (US);
Steve Steinbarger, Centerville, OH (US);
Abstract
A shuttle-lock for maintaining a patient's residual limb in a prosthetic limb socket includes: (a) a housing having a distal surface adapted to abut an inside surface of a prosthetic limb socket, a substantially concave proximal surface and a hole extending into the center of the proximal surface, where the hole is adapted to receive a plunger pin carried on a patient's residual limb therein; and (b) a lock positioned within the housing for securing the plunger pin received in the hole where the concave proximal surface includes a plurality of radially extending grooves that are adapted to guide the plunger pin into the hole.