US 11,723,787 B2
Multi-component hip orthosis
Shannon R. Schwenn, New Smyrna Beach, FL (US); Jeremy T. Schulte, Mount Dora, FL (US); Benjamin G. Domb, Glencoe, IL (US); and Nicole F. Weill, Ocoee, FL (US)
Assigned to ORTHOMERICA PRODUCTS, INC., Orlando, FL (US)
Filed by Orthomerica Products, Inc., Orlando, FL (US)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/459,480.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/692,308, filed on Jun. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0030179 A1, Jan. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 5/01 (2006.01); A61F 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/0102 (2013.01) [A61F 2007/004 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0192 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0214 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0242 (2013.01); A61H 2201/165 (2013.01); A61H 2205/088 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hip orthosis for a leg of a user, comprising:
a flexible waistband configured to conform to a waist of a user including first and second waist segments and a tightening cord for adjusting a displacement distance between respective ends of the first and second waist segments to tighten the first and second waist segments about the waist of the user to enable a lateral force to be applied to the user;
a hip shell removably attached to the flexible waistband by flexible straps, the hip shell being configured to flex when tightened by the tightening cord;
a first push button for hip adjustment of abduction and adduction between the hip shell and a hip hinge assembly having a push button release of locking pins for setting flexion and extension movement of the leg; and
a second push button positioned below the first push button and the hinge assembly for hip adjustment of abduction and adduction between the hip hinge assembly and a thigh support unit which is attached to a leg adjuster extending downward from the hip hinge assembly.