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WO1996012529A1 - Procede et dispositif permettant de gravir plus facilement des marches d'escalier - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif permettant de gravir plus facilement des marches d'escalier Download PDF

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WO1996012529A1
WO1996012529A1 PCT/SE1995/001225 SE9501225W WO9612529A1 WO 1996012529 A1 WO1996012529 A1 WO 1996012529A1 SE 9501225 W SE9501225 W SE 9501225W WO 9612529 A1 WO9612529 A1 WO 9612529A1
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Dag Efvergren
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H3/00—Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H3/00—Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about
    • A61H2003/001—Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about on steps or stairways
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H3/00—Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about
    • A61H2003/007—Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about secured to the patient, e.g. with belts
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2201/00—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes
    • A61H2201/16—Physical interface with patient
    • A61H2201/1602—Physical interface with patient kind of interface, e.g. head rest, knee support or lumbar support
    • A61H2201/164—Feet or leg, e.g. pedal
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2201/00—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes
    • A61H2201/16—Physical interface with patient
    • A61H2201/1602—Physical interface with patient kind of interface, e.g. head rest, knee support or lumbar support
    • A61H2201/165—Wearable interfaces

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  • This invention aims at helping people who are capa ⁇ ble of walking on a flat floor but, through old age, ill ⁇ ness or for some other reason, find it difficult to climb stairs owing to the normal step height of about 18 cm. This is highly inconvenient, since stairs usually are fairly narrow and sometimes curved as well, thus not leaving enough room for an assistant. Also, the disabled person does often not wish to be helped.
  • the invention is based on the insight that the effort required to climb stairs, just like the effort required to climb a steep slope in nature, increases with the angle of inclination.
  • To take a step is to make a composite movement either forwards and upwards or for ⁇ wards and downwards.
  • the forward movement is to be re ⁇ knitd as a movement in the plane, whereas the upward or downward movement is to be regarded as a deviation from the plane.
  • the effort required when walking on a flat floor increases with the size (height) of the devia ⁇ tion from the horizontal plane.
  • this deviation is determined by the height of the steps, and when a person is climbing a slope in nature, this deviation is determined by the length of the steps he is taking.
  • the climbing of stairs is facilitated by providing the user's one leg with an extension having a length corresponding to appro ⁇ ximately half the normal step height.
  • an extension having a length corresponding to appro ⁇ ximately half the normal step height.
  • use is, according to the invention, made of an elevation sole, the thickness of which corresponds to approximately half the normal height of the steps and which can be tem ⁇ porarily fixed to the user's one foot or item of footwear or is permanently fixed to the user's one item of foot ⁇ wear.
  • the invention enables the user to reduce the actual height of the steps and, hence, the deviation from the flat floor in existing stairs, the effort required to climb the stairs being correspondingly reduced without the need of any rebuilding.
  • the surprising thing about the invention is that it enables the actual height of all the steps of the stairs, and hence the effort required to climb the stairs, to be reduced by means of a single mea- sure consisting of a temporary extension of the user's one leg, as exemplified in the accompanying drawings, in which
  • Figs 1A-1E schematically illustrate the different phases involved when climbing a flight of stairs with the aid of the method and the device according to the invention
  • Fig. 2 is a perspective view obliquely from behind of an elevation sole according to the invention
  • Fig. 3 is a side view of the elevation sole.
  • the elevation sole 10 consists of a slab having a thickness of approximately 8 cm and being made of cellular plastic, such as polyethylene or polyurethane.
  • the sole 10 has a leather band 11 provided with a hook-and-loop fastener (Velcro fastener).
  • the leather band 11 is easily adapted to the item of footwear 13, for instance a slipper or an ordinary shoe, or to the stockinged foot.
  • the sole is so designed that it can be used on either foot, such that the user may fit the sole on the foot suiting him best.
  • the sole need not comprise any leather band, in which case it can be fixed to the item of footwear e.g. by gluing. Since the sole is fixed to the shoe or the foot when being used, both the hands of the user are free.
  • Figs 1A-1E illustrate a movement pattern showing how the inventive method is implemented and the inventive device is utilised.
  • the elevation sole is fitted on the left foot. If the sole is instead put on the right foot, the movement pattern will be reversed.
  • the user In the initial position (Fig. 1A), the user has placed the elevation sole 10 below the first step and lifted his left leg so high (approximately half the height of the step) that he has been able to introduce his left foot below the band 11.
  • the user then is to ascend to the next step, he straightens his left leg and thus lifts his body a distance corresponding to approxi ⁇ mately half the height of the step (Fig. IB).
  • the user lifts his right leg approximately half the height of the step and then advances his right foot, such that it can be placed on the next step (Fig. IC) .
  • the user When having recourse to the method and the device according to the invention, the user thus steps twice on each step of the stairs, and accordingly has an effective step height of approximately half the normal step height.
  • a person When climbing the stairs in normal manner, a person first has to lift the one foot the entire normal step height (approximately 18 cm) and then lift his body the same height, thereby to enable him to reach the first step ( see the broken-line indication of the left foot in Fig. 1A). With the elevation sole on the one foot, the user merely has to lift his body half this height.

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  • Footwear And Its Accessory, Manufacturing Method And Apparatuses (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif permettant d'aider les personnes qui, en raison de leur âge, d'une maladie, ou pour toute autre raison, éprouvent quelque difficulté à gravir des marches. On aide une personne à gravir des marches au moyen d'un élément s'adaptant à une jambe, dont la hauteur correspond à environ la moitié de la hauteur normale d'une marche. On utilise à cet effet une semelle surélevée (10) dont l'épaisseur correspond à environ la moitié de la hauteur normale d'une marche, et qui peut être temporairement fixée à un pied de l'utilisateur ou à une chaussure (13) ou autre de ce dernier, ou encore qui est fixée à demeure à une chaussure de l'utilisateur.
PCT/SE1995/001225 1994-10-20 1995-10-19 Procede et dispositif permettant de gravir plus facilement des marches d'escalier Ceased WO1996012529A1 (fr)

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AU38195/95A AU3819595A (en) 1994-10-20 1995-10-19 Method and device for facilitating the climbing of stairs

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SE9403593-8 1994-10-20
SE9403593A SE503329C2 (sv) 1994-10-20 1994-10-20 Sätt och anornding för att underlätta gående i trappor

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Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0768077A1 (fr) * 1995-10-13 1997-04-16 Karl-Heinz Bartel Dispositif d'assistance pour handicapés des jambes
FR2810211A1 (fr) * 2000-06-14 2001-12-21 Francois Nachon Dispositif aidant le franchissement d'une marche ou d'un escalier : surchaussure en forme de sabot dont l'epaisseur de la semelle est de la hauteur d'une demie marche
DE102015005441B3 (de) * 2015-04-28 2016-09-15 Hermann Thomas Die mobile Stufe
DE102017002098A1 (de) 2017-01-07 2018-07-12 Hermann Thomas Geschützte sowie haftende mobile Stufe
DE102019001872A1 (de) * 2019-03-16 2020-09-17 Hermann Thomas Moderne mobile Stufe
DE102019003632B3 (de) * 2019-05-23 2020-10-22 Hermann Thomas Die mobile Fitnessstufe
DE102020003216B3 (de) 2020-05-28 2021-08-26 Hermann Thomas Fitnesssohle

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US4274430A (en) * 1979-08-15 1981-06-23 Schaaf Cecil F Walking cane apparatus
US5318057A (en) * 1992-06-12 1994-06-07 Wallum Ronald I Half-step stability cane
US5355904A (en) * 1993-10-04 1994-10-18 Wallum Ronald I Stair climbing aid

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US4274430A (en) * 1979-08-15 1981-06-23 Schaaf Cecil F Walking cane apparatus
US5318057A (en) * 1992-06-12 1994-06-07 Wallum Ronald I Half-step stability cane
US5355904A (en) * 1993-10-04 1994-10-18 Wallum Ronald I Stair climbing aid

Cited By (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0768077A1 (fr) * 1995-10-13 1997-04-16 Karl-Heinz Bartel Dispositif d'assistance pour handicapés des jambes
FR2810211A1 (fr) * 2000-06-14 2001-12-21 Francois Nachon Dispositif aidant le franchissement d'une marche ou d'un escalier : surchaussure en forme de sabot dont l'epaisseur de la semelle est de la hauteur d'une demie marche
DE102015005441B3 (de) * 2015-04-28 2016-09-15 Hermann Thomas Die mobile Stufe
AT516859B1 (de) * 2015-04-28 2016-09-15 Hermann Thomas Zusätzliche Stufe
AT516859A4 (de) * 2015-04-28 2016-09-15 Hermann Thomas Zusätzliche Stufe
DE102017002098A1 (de) 2017-01-07 2018-07-12 Hermann Thomas Geschützte sowie haftende mobile Stufe
DE102019001872A1 (de) * 2019-03-16 2020-09-17 Hermann Thomas Moderne mobile Stufe
DE102019003632B3 (de) * 2019-05-23 2020-10-22 Hermann Thomas Die mobile Fitnessstufe
DE102020003216B3 (de) 2020-05-28 2021-08-26 Hermann Thomas Fitnesssohle

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SE9403593D0 (sv) 1994-10-20

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