Simulated electronic artificial hand

• Main Authors: TIANPEI HU, YANG SI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.02.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

Disclosed is a simulation electronic artificial hand which comprises a wrist, a palm seat connected with the wrist, a thumb, a finger frame, and a micro DC motor. The artificial hand has 14 joints in all, wherein the thumb has two joints, and each of the other four fingers has three joints. The thumb joint is composed of a joint ball with a handle clamped by two pieces of fastening plates arranged on a finger, and each joint of the other four fingers is composed of two parallel fixed plates arranged on a finger and a movable plate arranged on another finger, wherein the fixed plate and the movable plate are fastened by binding bolts. The wrist consists of a piece of seat board fixedly connected with a palm seat, a pressure plate, and a joint ball fixedly connected with an artificial forearm, which forms a universal joint. The relative position or angle among each joint of the artificial hand can all be properly adjusted with the help of a healthy hand, likewise, the wrist can be also adjusted angles properly with the help of a healthy hand, thereby realizing the function of the artificial hand having quasi-two freedoms, the figure of the artificial hand is the double of a real one after wearing plastic gloves.