Patent ID: 9579229
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A41D,A61F,D04B,D10B

Claim:
1. A hand joint supporter comprising a tubular knitted fabric that is knitted by circular knitting, and is adapted to come into close contact with the body surface of a wearer, thereby assisting hand joints, the hand joint supporter comprising: a first anchor section which is arranged to go around one end of the tubular knitted fabric and adapted to make the tubular knitted fabric tighten on a forearm of the wearer; a second anchor section which is arranged to go around another end of the tubular knitted fabric, is adapted to surround portions corresponding to a second metacarpal bone, a third metacarpal bone, a fourth metacarpal bone, and a fifth metacarpal bone in a vicinity of the metacarpophalangeal joints of the wearer, and adapted to make the tubular knitted fabric tighten on a palm and a back of the hand of the wearer; a hole anchor section comprising an approximately circular through-hole in a vicinity of the second anchor section in the tubular knitted fabric to insert a thumb of the hand of the wearer therethrough; a supporting section which is arranged to extend in a length direction of the tubular knitted fabric and adapted to extend over portions of the tubular knitted fabric corresponding to the carpometacarpal joints of the wearer on the front face and/or back face side of the tubular knitted fabric and is connected to the first anchor section and the hole anchor section, thereby supporting the hand joints of the wearer; a base fabric section which is arranged to surround portions corresponding to the hand joints of the wearer along with the supporting section and adapted to support the hand joints of the wearer along with the supporting section; and a buffer section which is a knitted fabric surrounded by the second anchor section, the hole anchor section, the supporting section, and the base fabric section in the tubular knitted fabric and provides flexibility between the second anchor section and the supporting section; wherein a stretch resistance of the first anchor section in a circumferential direction of the tubular knitted fabric is larger than a stretch resistance of the base fabric section in the circumferential direction of the tubular knitted fabric; and a stretch resistance of the supporting section in the length direction of the tubular knitted fabric is larger than the stretch resistance of the base fabric section in the length direction of the tubular knitted fabric.