A 3D-printed prosthetic hand with modular reconfigurable fingers

• Autores: Mio R., Bustamante M., Salazar G., Elias D.A.
• Formato: capítulo de libro
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
• Repositorio: CONCYTEC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/482
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/482; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16423-2_9
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Space constraints; Artificial limbs; Myoelectrically controlled prosthetics; Bolted connections; Efficient treatment; Electronic component; Open sources; Prosthesis design; Prosthetic hands; Reconfigurable; 3D printers; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.04.00

Partial hand and transradial amputations are among the most common levels of amputation. In the former case, a mechanical prosthesis is prescribed, while in the latter case either a mechanical or a myoelectric one are used depending on the patient’s preference and access to the technology. While a variety of prostheses designs are aimed to transradial amputees and plenty others are for partial hand amputations, like the 3D-printed open-source concepts that are activated by the user’s wrist, for a faster and more efficient treatment of hand amputations, one design should be adaptive for different levels of amputation without compromising the prosthesis performance. This work describes a powered prosthesis design with modular fingers and space constraints that allow it to be adapted to different levels of amputation. The prosthesis finger lengths could also be customized to user-specific anthropometry and, besides shafts, bolted connections and electronic components, the whole hand can be 3D printed.