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Title:
BODY WEARING TYPE POWER ASSISTANCE INSTRUMENT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004105261
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To reduce a load on the muscle of a person and make a compact entire configuration of a power assistance instrument for using a power assistance instrument capable of being worn by the person.

This power assistance instrument comprises a driving unit; a control unit; a power supply unit; and a sensor unit. The sensor unit determines an assistance power applied by the driving unit on the basis of either an acting force received by the person when the person acts or an estimated muscle value used by the person estimated in reference to the acting force received by the person when the person acts. With such an arrangement as above, the person can act in an attitude that a force more than a consumed energy is outputted with a less amount of energy by assisting the muscle power with the power assistance instrument that the person can wear on the body.


Inventors:
FUJIMOTO HIROMICHI
SHIROGAICHI TAKESHI
Application Number:
JP2002268519A
Publication Date:
April 08, 2004
Filing Date:
September 13, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
International Classes:
A63B23/04; A61H3/00; A63B23/12; (IPC1-7): A63B23/04; A63B23/12
Domestic Patent References:
JPH07163607A1995-06-27
JPH11291189A1999-10-26
JP2001276100A2001-10-09
JP2000166997A2000-06-20
JP2002102300A2002-04-09
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fumio Iwahashi
Tomoyasu Sakaguchi
Hiroki Naito



 
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