US 12,239,562 B2
Foot movement limiting device and shoe
Vinzenz Bichler, Berlin (DE); Timo Stumper, Berlin (DE); and Oscar Buschinger, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to BETTERGUARDS TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Berlin (DE)
Appl. No. 17/284,300
Filed by BETTERGUARDS TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Berlin (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/077420
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/074614, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 124 932.2 (DE), filed on Oct. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0378854 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 5/00 (2006.01); A43B 7/14 (2022.01); A43B 7/20 (2006.01); A61F 5/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/0127 (2013.01) [A43B 7/14 (2013.01); A43B 7/20 (2013.01); A61F 2005/0169 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A foot movement limiting device for limiting a foot movement via the ankle joint, comprising a support arrangement for supporting on a lower leg or from proximally on the ankle bone, a retaining arrangement for retention on a foot and at least one attachment element for limiting a relative movement between the support arrangement and the retaining arrangement,
wherein the at least one attachment element is attached to the support arrangement at two different attachment points, and the at least one attachment element is, at a point between the two attachment points, held by means of an articulated mounting on the retaining arrangement,
wherein the articulated mounting is configured in such a way that the attachment element is attached to the retaining arrangement so as to be displaceable relative to the latter within a predefined range,
wherein the support arrangement comprises a stretch-resistant region extending posteriorly around from a lateral side, from the first attachment point, at least to a medial side, to the second attachment point, or the support arrangement comprises a stretch-resistant region extending anteriorly around from a lateral side, from the first attachment point, at least to a medial side, to the second attachment point, wherein the stretch-resistant region is connected at its ends by a stretch-elastic region, wherein the stretch-elastic region extends between the first attachment point and the second attachment point counter to the stretch-resistant region, and
wherein the stretch-elastic region extends between the first attachment point and the second attachment point counter and not-coextensive to the posteriorly extending stretch-resistant region by extending anteriorly around from a lateral side, from the first attachment point, at least to a medial side, to the second attachment point; or
the stretch-elastic region extends between the first attachment point and the second attachment point counter and not-coextensive to the anteriorly extending stretch-resistant region by extending posteriorly around from a lateral side, from the first attachment point, at least to a medial side, to the second attachment point.