Patent ID: 6936019
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A strap connector assembly for an orthopedic brace comprising: a retention post having a post cross-sectional dimension; and a chamber having an interior and a peripheral boundary of said interior defined by an inner surface and a retention aperture, wherein said retention aperture is a discontinuity in said inner surface bounded at least in part by a flexible segment of said inner surface, further wherein said retention aperture provides a pathway through said peripheral boundary into or out of said interior of said chamber, and further wherein said retention aperture has an aperture cross-sectional dimension less than said post cross-sectional dimension when said flexible segment is unstressed and substantially equal to said post cross-sectional dimension when said flexible segment is stressed by said retention post and said chamber has a chamber diameter greater than or equal to said post cross-sectional dimension.