Patent ID: 9345593
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing a mounting plate system for use with a prosthetic socket, the socket having at least one aperture in a distal end thereof and in fluid communication with an interior portion of the socket which receives a residual limb, the method comprising the steps of: arranging a mounting plate having a top face directly adjacent to a distal outer periphery of the socket, and a bottom face for attachment to lower portions of a prosthetic limb outside the distal outer periphery of the socket; providing an opening in the mounting plate extending from the top face to the bottom face thereof; providing a bottom recess in the mounting plate extending from the bottom face and surrounding the opening; positioning a valve housing in the opening and having a channel therein for fluid communication with the interior portion of the socket via the at least one aperture, the valve housing having a shoulder portion arranged to abut the bottom recess in the mounting plate; providing a dummy valve housing in the opening of the mounting plate and then bonding the top face of the mounting plate to the distal end of the socket to create a flat mating surface on the distal end of the socket for a flange of a one-way expulsion valve, the dummy valve housing including a drill guide therein; laminating the mounting plate to the socket; drilling a hole through the drill guide in the dummy valve housing to the interior portion of the socket to define the aperture; removing the dummy valve housing; positioning the one-way expulsion valve within the opening in the mounting plate; and securing the one-way expulsion valve in place with the valve housing positioned in the opening of the mounting plate and compressing the flange thereof against the flat mating surface of the socket.