Patent ID: 7691074
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: A41D,A61F

Abstract:
1. A support for an area of a body that includes a hinge joint, comprising: (a) a flexible, elastically stretchable framework configured to extend across the hinge joint of the area of the body, wherein said framework comprises an integrally molded network of interconnected, elongate elastomeric segments, and includes: (b) a pair of double-hinge mechanisms, each double-hinge mechanism at least partially embedded in a material of the framework proximate a respective one of said left and right sides of the framework and each double-hinge mechanism including a middle component and end components connected to the middle component on opposite sides of the middle component such that each end component is rotatable between different angles relative to the middle component; (c) wherein the middle component of the double-hinge mechanism is configured to extend with the framework across the hinge joint, whereby the double-hinge mechanism is operable adjacent, and on opposite sides of, the hinge joint of the body.