A prosthesis or orthosis comprising a hinge joint system for functionally assisting, enhancing and/or replacing a hinge joint of a human or animal subject.

A prosthesis (1) or orthosis comprising a movement controlling mechanism (MCM) (17) comprising a first MCM part (18,25,57), a second MCM part (19,26,58) and one or more intermediate elements (20,27) and biasing means (21,28) which, in a contacting mode of operation of the MCM (17), bias the intermediate elements (20,27) against a MCM part (19,18), while, on the one hand, when a relative torque or force is applied in a blocking sense (U) transmission of torque is allowed and, on the other hand, when a torque or force is applied in the opposite sense (V) non-blocking relative movement is allowed.

Patent Publication Number: EP3169281B