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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2006
Sen-jung Chen, Taipei City, TW;
Sen-Jung Chen, Taipei City, TW;
Other;
Abstract
A prosthetic knee joint includes a knee seat having a slant screw hole, a movable member disposed pivotally in a bottom portion of the knee seat and having a lower mounting portion and an upper pushing portion, two shafts disposed respectively within shaft holes in the lower mounting portion, two C-shaped elastic sleeves sleeved respectively on the shafts and abutting against the upper pushing portion, a linkage connected to the shafts, a weight-buffering device having a rubber cushion disposed directly under the slant screw hole, a buffer adjustment device having a buffer cushion that protrudes outwardly of the movable member to abut against a projection of the knee seat and that is removable from the projection, and a restoring device operable so as to move a free end of the upper pushing portion relative to the lower mounting portion.