ADD-ON CAPACITIVE TOUCHSCREEN AID
    22.
    发明申请
    ADD-ON CAPACITIVE TOUCHSCREEN AID 审中-公开
    添加电容触摸屏辅助

    公开(公告)号:US20130268094A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-10

    申请号:US13443104

    申请日:2012-04-10

    IPC分类号: A61F2/54 G06F3/044

    摘要: An apparatus that allows a glove wearer or the wearer of a prosthetic limb to operate a device having a capacitive touchscreen is disclosed. The first embodiment of the disclosed invention is a conductive finger sock that can be applied to the tip or all of a digit of a non-conductive artificial limb. The second embodiment is an adhesive element having a conductive material such as conductive thread or a conductive sponge material. The adhesive element can be attached to a glove or to a prosthetic limb or may be used as an actual bandage. The third embodiment is directed to a factory integrated conductive tip that is part of a digit of a non-conductive artificial limb. The conductive element may be attached to the wearer's skin by a conductive line or may be used without the conductive line and thus may function in isolation.

    摘要翻译: 公开了允许手套佩戴者或假肢的佩戴者操作具有电容式触摸屏的装置的装置。 所公开的发明的第一实施例是可以应用于非导电假肢的尖端或全部数字的导电手指袜。 第二实施例是具有导电材料如导电丝或导电海绵材料的粘合元件。 粘合元件可以附着到手套或假肢上,或者可以用作实际的绷带。 第三实施例涉及作为非导电假肢的数字的一部分的工厂集成导电尖端。 导电元件可以通过导线连接到佩戴者的皮肤上,或者可以不用导线使用,因此可以隔离起作用。

    Electrical stimulation system and methods for treating phantom limb pain and for providing sensory feedback to an amputee from a prosthetic limb
    25.
    发明授权
    Electrical stimulation system and methods for treating phantom limb pain and for providing sensory feedback to an amputee from a prosthetic limb 有权
    电刺激系统和用于治疗幻肢疼痛并从假肢向截肢者提供感觉反馈的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07302296B1

    公开(公告)日:2007-11-27

    申请号:US10030973

    申请日:2000-07-05

    IPC分类号: A61N1/34

    摘要: This invention relates to a system and methods for relieving phantomlimb pain in amputees, and for providing an amputee with sensory feedback from a prosthetic limb. The system employs implantable multichannel, multi-chambered interface structures, namely, nerve cuffs. The implanted nerve cuffs have electrodes which transmit electrical signals generated by a signal generator to nerves, recruiting certain neurons to send sensory signals to the cerebral cortex, suggesting sensory sensations to the amputee. Such signals can arise directly from the signal generator, approximating the train of signals seen by the cortex in a normally innervated limb, or can originate from sensors in a prosthetic limb.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于缓解截肢者幻影疼痛的系统和方法,以及为假肢提供具有感觉反馈的截肢者。 该系统采用植入式多通道多腔接口结构,即神经袖口。 植入的神经袖口具有将由信号发生器产生的电信号传递给神经的电极,招募某些神经元以向大脑皮层发送感觉信号,提示对截肢者的感觉。 这样的信号可以直接从信号发生器产生,近似于在正常神经支配的肢体中由皮质看到的信号序列,或者可以源于假肢中的传感器。

    Artificial sensibility
    26.
    发明授权
    Artificial sensibility 有权
    人工感觉

    公开(公告)号:US06589287B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-07-08

    申请号:US09975429

    申请日:2001-10-11

    申请人: Göran Lundborg

    发明人: Göran Lundborg

    IPC分类号: A61F254

    摘要: The artificial sensibility device has a left sensor applied to a left finger, a middle sensor applied to a middle finger and a right sensor applied to a right finger of a hand. The sensors are connected to an amplifier unit that is connected to a headphone unit with a left speaker and a right speaker. The left finger is moved against a surface to activate the left sensor to send a first activation signal to the amplifier unit that sends a first sound signal only to the left speaker but nothing to the right speaker so the user knows the left finger is moved. The right finger is moved against the surface so that the right sensor sends a second sound signal only to the right speaker but nothing to the left speaker.

    摘要翻译: 人造感应装置具有左传感器,施加到中指的中间传感器和施加到手的右手指的右传感器。 传感器连接到放大器单元,该放大器单元连接到具有左扬声器和右扬声器的耳机单元。 左手指被移动到表面上以启动左传感器以将第一激活信号发送到放大器单元,该放大器单元仅向左扬声器发送第一声音信号,但是向右扬声器发送第一声音信号,因此用户知道左手指被移动。 右手指靠着表面移动,使右传感器仅向右扬声器发送第二声音信号,而向左扬声器发送任何声音信号。

    Method and apparatus for controlling an externally powered prosthesis

    公开(公告)号:US5888213A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-30

    申请号:US870342

    申请日:1997-06-06

    摘要: The present invention relates to improved controllers for externally powered prosthetic limb devices or similar extension devices such as orthotic devices or a sensor probe device. The improved controller operates a highly-efficient, compact, reliable and low-maintenance tactile force feedback system for translating a sensed pressure force from a prosthesis contacting an object or surface into a tactile sensory feedback pressure force to the user. The tactile force feedback system comprises at least one contact-responsive transducer which translates a sensed contact pressure from a portion of an extension device which contacts an object or surface into a corresponding electrical signal. The electrical signal is received by a microprocessor and processed into a proportional output voltage for producing a proportional torque from a motor. The motor is connected to a backdrivable planetary gearbox having a rotatable shaft connected to one end of a lever such that the gearbox output causes the lever to move in an arc segment. The opposite end of the lever has an attached tip member positioned to contact, and slightly depress, the user's skin when the shaft is forwardly rotated. The contact pressure of the tip member is, thus, applied to the user's skin with a contact pressure force proportional to the contact pressure force sensed by the contact-responsive transducer. In addition, the improved controller may permit the user to initiate self-calibration of various selected user-dependent operating parameters whenever desired and an adaptive filter for permitting user control of the rate of movement of the device such that smooth and steady control of either slow or more rapid prosthesis movement is achieved. The improved controller may also recognize multiple trigger patterns from signal input generated from either a single or from multiple control sites to effect switching between modes of operation, i.e., degrees of freedom, and/or functions.