Patents Assigned to Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas
  • Patent number: 5555949
    Abstract: An electrically operable wheelchair includes a pair of support wheels coupled with a pair of drive motors, one of a plurality of different types of user-operable input devices, and a controller responsive to input signals from the input devices for controlling the operation of the motors and thereby the movements of the wheelchair. The input devices include, for example, a proportional control joy stick and sets of one, two, three or four switches, and are operable for producing different types of input signals characteristic of the corresponding devices and representative of desired wheelchair movements. The controller is operable to respond to the different types of input signals provided by the devices for producing outputs to the motors for effecting the desired wheelchair movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas
    Inventors: Caskel A. Stallard, Susan O. Scholl
  • Patent number: 4635932
    Abstract: An ankle and lower leg exerciser for use in the strengthening and proprioceptive training of an ankle and lower leg. The exerciser having an oval-shaped table adjustable in height and specifically designed to enhance and limit specific ranges of motion of the ankle thereby promoting and preventing normal and abnormal stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Dewees