Patent ID: 6908488

Claim:
A prosthetic or orthotic support device for replacing the existence or function of a limb of a body, comprising: a first part and a second part connected to each other by an artificial knee joint including a pivot, of which parts the first part is a thigh part, which is configured to be fixed to a person's body or which is a part positioned to be closer to the body than the second part, seen from the artificial knee joint; a control device for the artificial joint, and a sensor arranged to detect the inclinational position in relation to a fixed line of said thigh part and placed on that side of the pivot of the artificial knee joint which is pivotable together with the movement of the thigh part; said sensor being coupled to the control device, which is arranged to influence movement resistance properties of the artificial knee joint on the basis of data about said inclinational position given by said sensor in a predetermined inclinational position of said thigh part.