US 11,986,415 B2
Production of a custom medical splint or brace for immobilization of a selected region of a patient's body part
Frédéric Schuind, Le Mont-Pélerin (CH)
Assigned to Swibrace SA, Fribourg (CH)
Appl. No. 17/266,222
Filed by Swibrace SA, Fribourg (CH)
PCT Filed Aug. 6, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/056674
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/031080, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18187436 (EP), filed on Aug. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0298937 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 5/01 (2006.01); A61F 5/058 (2006.01); B29C 33/38 (2006.01); B29C 33/40 (2006.01); B29C 51/36 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01)
CPC A61F 5/0118 (2013.01) [A61F 5/05866 (2013.01); B29C 33/3842 (2013.01); B29C 33/40 (2013.01); B29C 51/36 (2013.01); B29K 2875/00 (2013.01); B29L 2031/753 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of producing a custom medical splint or brace for immobilization of a selected region of a patient's body part, comprising the following steps:
producing a three-dimensional mold of a portion of the patient's body part comprising the selected region of the patient's body part onto which a desired medical splint or brace is to be placed;
after the producing the three-dimensional mold of the portion of the patient's body part, defining a three-dimensional shape of the desired medical splint or brace covering the selected region of the patient's body part onto which the desired medical splint or brace is to be placed;
generating a two-dimensional template of the desired medical splint or brace corresponding to the defined three-dimensional shape, wherein the two-dimensional template corresponds to unfolding in a two-dimensional plane of the three-dimensional shape of the desired medical splint or brace;
producing at least one plate of moldable material in accordance with the two-dimensional template of the desired medical splint or brace; and
molding the plate of moldable material onto the three-dimensional mold to shape the desired medical splint or brace.