US 12,127,964 B2
Medical device for supporting at least one region of the body
Laurent Breuil, Unieux (FR); and Henri De Moncuit, Bakersfield, CA (US)
Assigned to THUASNE, Levallois Perret (FR)
Appl. No. 16/064,523
Filed by THUASNE, Levallois Perret (FR)
PCT Filed Dec. 21, 2016, PCT No. PCT/FR2016/053610
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 21, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/109410, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 29, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 1562883 (FR), filed on Dec. 21, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2019/0021895 A1, Jan. 24, 2019
Int. Cl. A61F 5/02 (2006.01); A61F 5/01 (2006.01); D02G 3/32 (2006.01); D03D 15/56 (2021.01); D03D 19/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/028 (2013.01) [A61F 5/01 (2013.01); A61F 5/0111 (2013.01); A61F 5/02 (2013.01); D02G 3/32 (2013.01); D03D 15/56 (2021.01); D03D 19/00 (2013.01); D10B 2509/00 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device for supporting at least one region of the body, wherein said medical device is a support belt, said support belt comprising at least one textile panel having a longitudinal direction and a transversal direction arranged so as to encircle all or part of the at least one region of the body to be supported,
wherein said at least one textile panel comprises a woven textile strip A and a woven textile strip B at least partially superposed, said woven strip A having a warp direction A and a weft direction A and said woven strip B having a warp direction B and a weft direction B, wherein the warp direction A and the warp direction B cross each other at an angle alpha greater than 0° and under 90°, and
each of the woven textile strips A and B comprising weft threads, first elastic warp threads, second non-elastic warp threads, and third warp threads, wherein said first elastic warp threads and said second non-elastic warp threads are woven according to a leno shed, the second warp threads forming doup threads,
wherein at least one weft thread comprises between 2 and 5 filaments, each filament having a diameter greater than or equal to 0.10 mm,
wherein at least one of the woven strips A and B has a number of weft threads per centimetre less than or equal to 25,
wherein said at least one textile panel is elastic in the longitudinal direction and has a force in the longitudinal direction which is greater than or equal to 1000 cN/cm, to achieve an elongation equal to 30%,
wherein at least one of said first elastic warp threads comprises at least one elastic monofilament core thread made of elastane or latex, coated or covered by at least a first cover thread;
wherein the device comprises a multiplier gripping device of a manual application force of said at least one textile panel, said multiplier gripping device is a mechanical gripping device by cable and/or by pulley.