Multi-function control system for an artificial upper-extremity prosthesis for above-elbow amputees
CA 1047145 A · Owner: United States Department Of Commerce · Inventors: Graupe, Daniel
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An apparatus for actuating a prosthetic appliance employs as few as one pair of surface electrodes and provide several movements. The apparatus samples the myoelectric signal, compares a minimum number of parameters of such signals with a range of values of these same parameters and, actuates the prosthetic appliance whenever the current data for the sampled parameters is within a preselected domain chosen on the basis of historical data.
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- Granted January 23, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 23, 1996.
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