Patents by Inventor Viktor Gerhard Horig

Viktor Gerhard Horig 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).

  • Publication number: 20240341990
    Abstract: The invention relates to an orthosis comprising: a first fastening element (15) for fastening a first orthosis component (10) to a proximal body part of a user; a second orthosis component (20) having a second fastening element (21) for being fixed to a distal body part of the user; and a joint device (30) which is located at the proximal end (22) of the second orthosis component (20) and which has a joint upper part (40) and which makes it possible for the second orthosis component (20) to pivot about a joint axis (4) in the sagittal plane relative to the joint upper part (40), the joint upper part (40) being mounted or designed on the first orthosis component (10) in a fastening device (11) so as to be pivotable and/or displaceable in the frontal plane and so as to be rotationally rigid in the sagittal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Viktor Gerhard HÖRIG, Roland AUBERGER, Matthias VOLLBRECHT, Dirk SEIFERT, Etienne OVERDEVEST, Laura HOFFSÜMMER
  • Publication number: 20220304832
    Abstract: The invention relates to an orthopedic device with an energy storage device 2 that comprises at least one cylinder 4, in which a first cylinder chamber 6, a second cylinder chamber 8, which is fluidically connected to the first cylinder chamber 6 by at least one fluid line 14, and a piston 10 are located, wherein the piston 10 is arranged relative to the cylinder 4 such that it can be displaced in such a way that by displacing the piston 4, an operating medium, which is a fluid, is conveyed through the at least one fluid line 14 from one cylinder chamber 6, 8 into the other cylinder chamber 8, 6, wherein the energy storage device 2 has at least one compensation volume 24, which is fluidically connected to the fluid line 14 via a fluid connection 22, and a first controllable valve 26, by means of which the fluid connection 22 can be opened and closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Christian Will, Torsten Parth, Leonard Vier, Carsten Moenicke, Georg Gehrmann, Andreas Bohland, Jessica Gabriela Beltran Ullauri, Viktor Gerhard Horig, Herman Boiten