Hydraulic damping cylinder, in particular for a knee prosthesis

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PATENT NO 9757253
APP PUB NO 20160166410A1
SERIAL NO

14970781

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A hydraulic damping cylinder for a prosthetic knee joint, including a housing, a cylinder chamber in the housing and filled with a hydraulic fluid, and a piston arranged in the cylinder chamber and movable by a piston rod. In the housing there are provided at least two separate receiving chambers, which are of different size and are connected to the cylinder chamber by fluid ducts, for hydraulic fluid displaced from the cylinder chamber during a piston movement. The receiving chambers are each separated, by a diaphragm, from a compression chamber filled with a compressible fluid that forms an energy store. Upstream of the larger receiving chamber, there is connected a throttle device which forms a flow resistance for the hydraulic fluid flowing into the receiving chamber so that the hydraulic fluid can be distributed to the two receiving chambers in a manner dependent on speed of the piston movement.

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OSSUR ICELAND EHFGRJOTHALS 5 REYKJAVIK 110

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dressler, Janek Florstadt, DE 2 2
Kamm, Thomas Altenstadt, DE 10 23
Tschupp, Gabriel Fürstenfeldbruck, DE 2 2
Zobirei, Sören Bindlach, DE 2 2

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