BANDAGE FOR THE BACK OR PELVIS

• US 20170266030A1
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Published: 09/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Bauerfeind AG
• Original Assignee: Bauerfeind AG
• Inventors: HESS, Heinrich
• Application Number:
  US15/505,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20170266030A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/148 Abdomen bandages or bandaging garments
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/0193 Apparatus specially adapted for treating hip dislocation; Abduction splints
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/028 Braces for providing support to the lower back, e.g. lumbo sacral supports
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/32 Adjustable pressure pads
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 1/008 Apparatus for applying pressure or blows almost perpendicular to the body or limb axis, e.g. chiropractic devices for repositioning vertebrae, correcting deformation
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 11/00 Belts, strips or combs for massage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1626 Holding means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/163 holding means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1692 Enhanced rubbing effect
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 39/04 Devices for pressing such points, e.g. Shiatsu or AcupressureMassage or pressure on general areas A61H9/00 - A61H23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/002 by rubbing or brushing

Abstract

A bandage for the back or pelvis has adjacent pads mounted on an inner face of a supporting piece in a back area of the bandage, respectively one fastener strap piece for applying the bandage by joining together the ends of the two fastener strap pieces attaching at the opposite edge regions of the supporting piece, and two tensioning belts being assigned to the supporting piece, which are guided in such a manner that the pads approach each other when tensioning the tensioning belts and apply a pressure dependent on a tension force acting on the tensioning belts onto the relevant body part.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A bandage for the back or pelvis comprising:

a support piece in a back area of the bandage;

adjacent pads mounted on an inner face of the supporting piece;

first and second fastener strap pieces attached at first and second opposite edge regions of the supporting piece, respectively, for applying the bandage by joining together ends of first and second fastener strap pieces;

first and second tensioning belts assigned to the supporting piece which are guided such that the adjacent pads approach each other when tensioning the tensioning belts for applying a pressure dependent on a tension force acting on the tensioning belts onto the relevant body part, the tensioning belts connected to the supporting piece on the inner face of the supporting piece in an area of the pads.

12. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 11, wherein the tensioning belts run partially on an outer face of the supporting piece and the supporting piece has at least one opening through which the tensioning belts are guided to the inner face of the supporting piece.

13. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 11, wherein the first tensioning belt is guided through a first opening in the supporting piece to the inner face of the supporting piece and the second tensioning belt is guided through a second opening in the supporting piece to the inner face of the supporting piece.

14. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 11, wherein the at least one opening is a slit in the supporting piece.

15. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 11, wherein the tensioning belts are each guided via a deflection piece mounted at the supporting piece by reversing the direction from the area of the pads to the respective edge region of the supporting piece.

16. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 15, wherein the deflection piece is attached on the outer face of the supporting piece.

17. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 15, further comprising a deflection lug attached in a center of the supporting piece which forms the two deflection pieces.

18. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 11, wherein respectively one tensioning belt is connected in respectively one attachment area of a pad to the supporting piece.

19. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 11, wherein the supporting piece has an area made from a knitted fabric which has an open structure made from a plurality of partial elements, wherein the open structure simultaneously is stretchable in the longitudinal direction as well as also in the lateral direction, wherein the partial elements of the structure respectively have a width of at least 2.0 mm and no more than 10.0 mm in the stretched state.

20. The bandage for the back or pelvis of claim 11, wherein the supporting piece and a half of the fastener strap pieces adjacent to the supporting piece have equal elasticity.