Patents by Inventor Hans B Bauerfeind

Hans B Bauerfeind 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).

  • Patent number: 5395306
    Abstract: A one-part bandage for the clavicle, with a back strap extending crosswise over the back, to which shoulder straps are connected which cross under the armpits and extend over a clavicle. The straps cross in the region of the middle of the back strap at the crossing place, and run out over the hips to the abdomen into connecting end parts, whereby the end parts are joined together by means of an adhesive seal. This configuration is made of non-elastic strap material. The shoulder straps are applied at places that are distanced from one another on the back strap on its side turned away from the back, whereby support places are each formed by an adhesive seal, whose adhesive part is introduced on the back strap and whose coating part completely covering the respective adhesive part is formed by the respective shoulder strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Bauerfeind & Co.
    Inventors: Hans B. Bauerfeind, Rainer Scheuermann
  • Patent number: 5393300
    Abstract: Shoulder joint bandage with a tubular section which envelops the upper arm and a shoulder top piece connecting thereto to whose edge on the neck side retaining straps are fastened of which one--in the form of a back strap--traverses the back diagonally and envelops the hip under the armpit of the shoulder which is opposite to the shoulder top piece whereas the other is led at least partially--in the form of a chest strap--over the side of the chest to this hip where the back strap and chest strap cross and continue in their direction, in each case, on the other side of the body into the other half of the body. The two continuation belts at the upper arm located near the hip in question envelop this in the opposite direction from the hip side whereby the end of each continuation belt is attached, in each case, to the same continuation belt after enveloping the upper arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Bauerfeind GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans B. Bauerfeind, Rainer Scheuermann
  • Patent number: 5181906
    Abstract: A shoulder-joint bandage having an elastic sleeve receiving the upper arm of the patient and a cap passing over the shoulder, has extension belts wound in opposite helical senses along the sleeve and cap and forming a crossover point at the apex of the cap from which the belts extend diagonally downwardly across the back and chest of the patient to a lower crossover point below the armpit of the opposite arm at which the belts are stitched together and have frontal and dorsal connecting segments passing around the back and chest of the patient to be joined by a connecting element at their ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Bauerfeind GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans B. Bauerfeind
  • Patent number: 5131385
    Abstract: An orthesis for the human knee, having two joints which are disposed at the sides of the knee and from which there project arms which embrace the knee-cap and meet in pairs above and below the knee-cap in a centrally disposed tongue in each case, by each of which tongues at least one thigh strap and one leg strap respectively are carried above and below the knee. Each tongue is connected to its associated strap by an interchangeable longitudinal rail, placed in position from the outside, via adjustment means which, substantially in the region of the torque, determine the strap axis in rotation to the joints, and in the region of the strap, determine its distance from the joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Bauerfeind GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Walter Kuehnegger, Hans B. Bauerfeind
  • Patent number: 5058573
    Abstract: A elastic bandage having a tubular shape with an opening for a thub disposed therein. The dandage is adapted to be disposed about the top, bottom and both sides of the hand. It is characterized by a profiled padding on opposite sides of the bandage and is adapted to engage the opposite sides of the hand and wrist. The padding tapers into unpadded portions of the bandage in the regions between the sides of the hand and the top and the bottom of the hand so that the bandage urges against the top and the bottom of the hand with only slight pressure in the unpadded regions. The padding acts like pillars supporting the bandage which spans the space between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Bauerfeind GmbH and Co.
    Inventors: Heinrich Hess, Wolfgang Krause, Hans B. Bauerfeind
  • Patent number: 5038762
    Abstract: An ankle-joint orthosis which comprises a U-shaped supporting yoke consisting of flexible material, the arms of which meet in a web below the foot, extend above the malleoli and are held together in their end region by a fastening strap wrapping round the leg. The outer arm is taken upwards at the side in front of its malleolus and the inner arm is taken up opposite the outer arm, in front of the Achilles tendon. The arms are taken towards the web as far as a position in front of the heel and extend upwards towards their ends in such a manner that they rise upwards laterally beside the edges of the shinbone, substantially parallel to these. Fitted in the lower region of the arms is a supporting strap, particularly a self-gripping strap, which extends from the one arm, over the instep obliquely upwards to the other arm on which it can be fixed, engages round the Achilles tendon above the malleolus and, crossing over itself on the instep, ends in a holding member on the other arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Bauerfeind GmbH and Company
    Inventors: Heinrich Hess, Wolfgang Krause, Hans B. Bauerfeind