Intelligent foot appliance
CA 2122492 A1 · Owner: Gross, Clifford · Inventors: Gross, Clifford
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A foot appliance (10) comprises a sole (12) and side walls (14) forming a load bearing surface for a foot. A plurality of air bladders (19-26) are located within the load bearing surface. The feedback system comprises a sensor apparatus for generating data indicating an actual distribution of load exerted by the foot on the load bearing surface. An electronic processor (108) receives the actual load distribution data and determines if the actual load distribution is a desired load distribution. If the actual load distribution is not a desired load distribution a valve apparatus, (120) is activated by the electronic processor to change the amount of air contained in the air bladders …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed September 9, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 9, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 9, 2015.
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