A 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand with Modular Reconfigurable Fingers
Presented at Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol. 71, Springer, Cham, 2019
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.
Recommended citation: R. Mio, M. Bustamante, G. Salazar, D.A. Elias. (2019). “A 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand with Modular Reconfigurable Fingers.” In: Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol. 71, Springer, Cham.
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