Patent ID: 8641781
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: A61F,B33Y

Abstract:
1. A socket for use with a partial prosthesis of the hand, wherein the natural hand has an ulnar side and a radial side and retains thenar and hypo-thenar eminences, at least the body portions of the metacarpals, and at least a portion of the proximal phalanx of the thumb, the socket comprising: a contoured base layer having a palmar portion, a dorsal portion, a first arced portion joining the palmar and dorsal portions on the ulnar side, and a second arced portion joining the palmar and dorsal portions on the radial side, the palmar portion comprising: the dorsal portion comprising: the first arced portion joined to the first end of the transverse dorsal band, the first section of the transverse distal band, and the transverse proximal band and defining a perimeter of the hypo-thenar opening; and, the second arced portion joined to the second end of the transverse dorsal band and the second section of the transverse distal band; a dorsal axial band that is joined to and extending proximally from the second end of the transverse dorsal band; said socket configured to define the open area from the perimeter of the thenar eminence to the dorsal axial band.