TACTILE SENSING MEANS FOR PROSTHETIC LIMBS

An improved prosthetic device characterized by a frame including a socket for mounting the frame on the stump of a truncated human appendage and having a plurality of flexible digits extended from the distal end thereof. Within the digits there are transducers, provided as sensing device for detecti...

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Hauptverfasser:	SCOTT W,US, FLETCHER J,US
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS FIRST-AID KITS FOMENTATION HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES PROSTHESES TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS
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Zusammenfassung:	An improved prosthetic device characterized by a frame including a socket for mounting the frame on the stump of a truncated human appendage and having a plurality of flexible digits extended from the distal end thereof. Within the digits there are transducers, provided as sensing device for detecting tactile stimuli, connected through a power circuit with a slave unit supported by a strap and fixed to the stump, whereby the tactile stimuli detected at the sensing devices are reproduced and applied to the skin of the appendage for thus stimulating sensory organs located therein