Patents by Inventor Richard Glabiszewski

Richard Glabiszewski 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: 5443530
    Abstract: An elbow fitting part for upper arm stumps includes an elbow ball connected by a hinged axle to the lower arm, configured as a hollow synthetic part, and is detainable by a latch-locking device in various bending positions, while the proximal connection to the upper arm shaft is created by a cast-in ring and an upper arm rotating joint is provided for the adjustable rotation of the lower arm. In order to make this elbow fitting part usable for all upper arm stump lengths, the upper arm rotating joint is configured as an annual bearing and the latch-locking device is a traction lock which is disposed outside the elbow ball and is integrated into a rotating connection forming a section of the hinged axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Otto Bock Orthopaedische Industrie Besitz- und Verwaltungs-Kommanditgesel lschaft
    Inventor: Richard Glabiszewski
  • Patent number: 4595179
    Abstract: A hydraulic damping unit, particularly for use in artificial joints. The unit includes a cylinder housing having a screw-in bottom part. A hollow piston is guided in the housing and has on its jacket a shoulder which delimits with corresponding flanges on the inner wall of the housing two chambers of variable volume for storing a hydraulic liquid. A hollow throttling piston is guided in the main piston and is formed with an annular recess which communicates with respective variable volume chambers via passages passing through the jacket of the main piston at both sides of the shoulder. In the range of both passages, the bottom of the recess of the throttling piston is connected to the outer surface of the latter via a sloping annular surface which, depending on the relative position of the throttling piston to the main piston, adjusts the clearance of the passages to control the resistance to flow of the hydraulic liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Otto Bock Orthopadische Industrie, KG
    Inventor: Richard Glabiszewski
  • Patent number: 4529332
    Abstract: A tubular joint for receiving and fastening a tubular element of an artificial limb includes a tubular member having a chamber to receive the tubular element therein and formed with a recess defined by inner walls of the coupling conically inclined towards each other, two clamping grips overhung in the recess, and an adjusting screw insertable into the coupling to press the clamping grips against the tubular element to clamp the latter in the chamber of the coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: Otto Bock Orthopadische Industrie KG
    Inventor: Richard Glabiszewski
  • Patent number: 4513457
    Abstract: In a prosthetic hip-joint for an artificial leg a first joint member is connected to an upright shank of a two-shank fastening angle. A second joint member is pivotally connected to the first joint member by a pivot so that the second member can be pivoted relative to the first member between a first position corresponding to the standing position of the leg and a second position corresponding to the sitting position of the leg. The joint further includes stop surface abutments on the first member and the second member for limiting the pivoting movement of the second member relative to the first member and a compression spring on the second member for generating an elastic counter force applied to second member when it is pivoted from the first position into the second position and vice versa such that in the sitting position the first and second members do not extend downwardly from a horizontal shank of the fastening angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1985
    Assignee: Otto Bock Orthopadische Industrie KG
    Inventor: Richard Glabiszewski
  • Patent number: 4310932
    Abstract: The artificial knee joint for an artificial leg includes a pair of substantially parallel pivotable bars which are connected by pivoting joints to an upper part and a lower part of the knee joint, respectively. One of the bars is anterior and the other is posterior with respect to a position of the artificial leg. The upper part has two spaced pivoting joints and the lower part has two spaced pivoting joints. The imaginary connecting line between the pivoting joint of the anterior bar and the pivoting joint of the posterior bar is substantially horizontal when the leg is in its vertical position. The imaginary connecting line between two pivoting joints of the anterior bar is inclined at a small angle to the imaginary connecting line between two pivoting joints of the posterior bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Inventors: Max Nader, Richard Glabiszewski
  • Patent number: 4089072
    Abstract: A prosthetic appliance comprises a supporting part and an extremity-shaped part which is articulated to the end portion of the supporting part. A sheath surrounds the supporting part, and a cup-shaped element is permanently connected to the sheath and detachably connected to the extremity-shaped part and bounds a compartment in which the end portion of the supporting part is received with freedom of movement relative to the cup-shaped element. The cup-shaped element may be snugly received in a depression of the second part and circumferentially surrounded by a rim of the latter, being flush with an end face thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Otto Bock Orthopadische Industrie K.G.
    Inventor: Richard Glabiszewski
  • Patent number: 4007496
    Abstract: A connection means between a part of a skeletal prosthesis such as a foot or hand and a cosmetic cover. A connecting link is fastened to the open front end of the cover with the surface of the connecting link extending transversely across the front end of the cover. The connecting link has at least two pin sockets running perpendicular and contiguous to its surface with a catch abutting one side of each socket. The link is preferably plate-shaped having a central portion projecting outwardly on one surface and recessed on the other with a central opening to permit passage of a skeletal member. A connecting plate is mounted on the foot or other working part of the prosthesis and has connecting pins for connection with the pin sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1977
    Assignee: Otto Boch Orthopadische Industries KG
    Inventor: Richard Glabiszewski