US 12,324,762 B2
Ankle/foot orthosis
Jan Johnsson, Norrkoping (SE); Gordon Siewert, Gottingen (DE); Heiko Drewitz, Gleichen (DE); Olaf Kroll-Orywahl, Gottingen (DE); Maximilian Segl, Duderstadt (DE); Marcus Lurssen, Gottingen (DE); Markus Tuttemann, Duderstadt (DE); Boris Ljubimir, Waltrop (DE); Norbert Schimek, Duderstadt (DE); Wolfgang Keiner, Kirchworbis (DE); and Alexander Schmitt, Kassel (DE)
Assigned to OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA, Duderstadt (DE)
Filed by OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA, Duderstadt (DE)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/539,596.
Application 18/539,596 is a continuation of application No. 18/074,258, filed on Dec. 2, 2022, granted, now 11,850,177.
Application 18/074,258 is a continuation of application No. 16/926,595, filed on Jul. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,517,463, issued on Dec. 6, 2022.
Application 16/926,595 is a continuation of application No. 14/406,835, granted, now 10,729,574, issued on Aug. 4, 2020, previously published as PCT/EP2013/001663, filed on Jun. 6, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 102012011466.4 (DE), filed on Jun. 12, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2024/0108490 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. A61F 5/00 (2006.01); A61F 5/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/0127 (2013.01) [A61F 5/0111 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ankle/foot orthosis, comprising:
a foot part, which has a sole configured to receive a foot;
a shin part having an elongate gutter shape or cup shape that is configured to extend along a length of a shin, the shin part being configured to extend along and bear on a frontal aspect of the shin and being connected to the foot part via a spring;
the spring further comprising a first arc and a second arc, the first arc being configured to extend medially from the foot part and to extend in an arc behind an ankle in a lateral direction to form a hinge area, and wherein the second arc is configured to curve laterally and anteriorly from the hinge area to merge into the shin part, wherein the first arc has a larger medial bulge than the second arc and the hinge area forms a furthest posterior position of the spring.