Patents by Inventor Erik Laatsch

Erik Laatsch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Pneumatic connections for prosthetic socket
    Patent number: 8496715
    Abstract: A connector for fluidly connecting the sealed interior of an artificial limb socket with a pressure source when the connector is mounted to the socket at a hole and an artificial limb including same. The connector includes a flexible elongated tubular section having a lumen, a flange coupled to one end of the elongated tubular section, the flange having a seal surface for sealingly abutting one of the socket wall surfaces around the hole, and a tubular portion adjacent to the flange and extending the lumen from the seal surface of the flange. Tubular portion has at least one section oversized relative to hole which provides a reasonable air-tight seal between the at least one section and an inner surface of the hole or the other of said socket wall surfaces around the hole and distant from the flange, when the tubular portion is received within the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Otto Bock Healthcare LP
    Inventors: Glenn M. Street, Luder Mosler, Robert Edward Finlinson, William M. Clover, Jr., Erik Laatsch
  • Method for adjusting a system that is modified in a cycle to a non-constant cyclical target profile and controller therefor
    Patent number: 7937166
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting a system that changes in a cycle to a nonconstant cyclic target profile by comparing measured actual values with appropriate target values for the target profile and outputting a control value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Otto Bock Healthcare IP GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Erik Laatsch
  • Method for Adjusting a System that is Modified in a Cycle to a Non-Constant Cyclical Target Profile and Controller Therefor
    Publication number: 20090005887
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting a system that changes in a cycle to a nonconstant cyclic target profile by comparing measured actual values with appropriate target values for the target profile and outputting a control value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Otto Bock Healthcare IP GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Erik Laatsch
  • PNEUMATIC CONNECTIONS FOR PROSTHETIC SOCKET
    Publication number: 20080269911
    Abstract: A connector for fluidly connecting the sealed interior of an artificial limb socket with a pressure source when the connector is mounted to the socket at a hole and an artificial limb including same. The connector includes a flexible elongated tubular section having a lumen, a flange coupled to one end of the elongated tubular section, the flange having a seal surface for sealingly abutting one of the socket wall surfaces around the hole, and a tubular portion adjacent to the flange and extending the lumen from the seal surface of the flange. Tubular portion has at least one section oversized relative to hole which provides a reasonable air-tight seal between the at least one section and an inner surface of the hole or the other of said socket wall surfaces around the hole and distant from the flange, when the tubular portion is received within the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Otto Bock Healthcare LP
    Inventors: Glenn M. Street, Luder Mosler, Robert Edward Finlinson, William M. Clover, Erik Laatsch