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Title:
WALKING AID
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH11113986
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To lessen burdens on a carer, etc., by installing a walking speed control means that can indicate a prescribed walking speed by light emission of light emitters along a walking route of a walking exercise location and making the light emitters emit light and move in accordance with a walking level of an exerciser when he exercises himself in walking.

The walking exercise machine is comprised of a walking aid 2 and a walking speed control device, and the walking aid 2 is made up of a ceiling electric lift 27 arranged on a rail 30 fixed to a ceiling 29 and a walking exercise device 28 suspended from the lower end thereof. The walking speed control device has many LEDs 18 installed in a case whose top is open, at a fixed interval and an LED display 15 that detects the legs of a man M with gait disability during exercise with sensors provided at a prescribed interval. When he walks following the light emission and movement of light emitters, the sensors detect walking conditions of a walking exerciser, measures his walking speed during exercise on the basis of the detection data correctly and reflects them on subsequent exercise.


Inventors:
ISHIGURO SEIICHIRO
KOBAYASHI HIROSHI
MORINAGA TAKESHI
Application Number:
JP29329897A
Publication Date:
April 27, 1999
Filing Date:
October 08, 1997
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NIPPON MEDIX KK
ISHIGURO SEIICHIRO
CARETEC HAMAMATSU KK
International Classes:
A63B23/10; A61H1/02; A61H3/00; (IPC1-7): A61H1/02; A61H3/00; A63B23/10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takao Koshikawa