摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved knee supporter so that it becomes loose when a wearer bends the knee, becomes tight when he or she stretches the knee, and becomes strained when walking to fix the knee from right and left. <P>SOLUTION: The knee supporter is a supporter comprising a cylindrical fabric for covering a knee joint part, and is provided with a pair of lengthwise poles which can be bent in both end parts on right and left for jointing a front part and a rear part but cannot be twisted. The front part comprises a rectangular complex fabric which joins a rectangular knee upper part fabric and a knee lower part fabric that cannot be expanded above and below a rectangular knee front part fabric which can be vertically expanded but not horizontally. The rear part comprises a rectangular fabric which can be expanded horizontally but not vertically. Moreover, a belt which limits an interval between one lengthwise pole and the other lengthwise pole at a position equivalent to a lower end of the knee front part is provided on the side of a knee rear part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |