US 11,806,256 B2
Three dimensional print method and part
Garrett Harmon, Pflugerville, TX (US); Shannon Hazel, Bryan, TX (US); Charles Brandon Sweeney, Pflugerville, TX (US); and Blake Teipel, Pflugerville, TX (US)
Assigned to ESSENTIUM IPCO, LLC, Pflugerville, TX (US)
Appl. No. 16/758,716
Filed by TriFusion Devices Inc., Pflugerville, TX (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 23, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/057084
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 23, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/083988, PCT Pub. Date May 2, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/575,810, filed on Oct. 23, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0337871 A1, Oct. 29, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 2/80 (2006.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01); A61F 2/50 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/80 (2013.01) [A61F 2/5046 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); A61F 2240/002 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A prosthetic socket for a prosthetic limb, the prosthetic socket comprising:
a socket body comprising a distal end and a top edge opposite the distal end, and wherein the distal end comprises a prosthetic component attachment mechanism, and
a first structural member defined by a plurality of first portions raised from the outer surface of the socket body, the first raised portions having a triangular shape and comprising a first straight portion, a second straight portion, and a first arch portion, and wherein the first structural member is disposed on a medial, exterior surface of the socket body and wherein the socket body within the triangular shape of the first structural member exhibits a first wall thickness that is less than a second wall thickness of the first structural member; and
wherein the first straight portion of the first structural member comprises a first end fixed to a second end of the second straight portion of the first structural member, a third end of the first arch portion is fixed to a fourth end of the first straight portion, and a fifth end of the first arch portion is fixed to a sixth end of the second straight portion of the first structural member.