Design Study "Breuninger"
Challenge
- Development of a leg prosthesis with the highest possible adjustment to the individuality of the person concerned
- Volume simulation of the natural leg
- Minimized number of single components
- Presentable piece of design
- Weight reduction
- Well adapted shaft for high wearing comfort and optimal energy transfer to the prosthesis
- Loadable, flexible and movable prosthesis feet with energy-recovering qualities, which allow reliability when walking and a natural work movement
Solution
Layer construction methods for an optimal functional and formal-aesthetic adjustment to the patient.
Benefits
- Layer construction methods for an optimal functional and formal-aesthetic adjustment to the patient
- First walking attempts worked out successfully
- Different walking speeds with a human-like gait pattern possible
- Prosthesis is very loadable, allows even hopping and running
- Polyamide material permits individualized surface post-processing and/or design of the prosthesis
Project partner: Fraunhofer Institut http://www.fraunhofer.de/
- Femoral prosthesis design study. Sketch, rendering, and view of the newly designed femoral prosthesis made from polyamide (courtesy of Fraunhofer Institut).
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